Meet Our Community Partners

Write Around Portland changes lives through the power of writing. Their community-based workshops are tools for individual and societal transformation, self-expression, healing, and dignity. Together, we’re developing writing workshops to foster a sense of belonging in new students to the Lewis & Clark community.

The Inside-Out Prison Exchange brings inmates at the Columbia River Correctional Institution and undergraduates together in courses taught by Lewis & Clark College faculty. Fifteen incarcerated individuals (inside) and fifteen Lewis & Clark undergraduates (outside) study, for example, the history of criminal punishment. With Andrew W. Mellon Foundation support, we are expanding this program through training additional Lewis & Clark faculty to teach these courses. Find out more about the Inside-Out Instructor Training Faculty Grant. 

Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (NWNMC) gathers health care professionals, patients, caregivers, students, academics, and artists in the shared practice of narrative medicine. This emerging field strengthens the ability to recognize, absorb, process, and be moved by stories of illness and health. The work awakens the shared humanity of all people who navigate illness, and practicing narrative medicine in community strengthens us individually.

Roosevelt High School serves a highly diverse student body who lives and learns within a range of social, financial, and emotional stressors, which can make accessing higher education challenging. In June 2022, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies Mitch Reyes developed and implemented an innovative College Prep Program to prepare Roosevelt students for college admissions and success.  Read the first year program findings here.