Center for Community Engagement Social Services

BREHA Collective

Founded and led by Professor Jalicia Jolly, the Black Feminist Reproductive Justice, Equity & HIV/AIDS Activism (BREHA) Collective is a new interdisciplinary lab that foregrounds the experiences, labor, and political visions of Afro-Diasporic girls, women, and gender diverse people in our shared and divergent struggles against reproductive injustice. Their primary goal is to use research, community partnerships, and multimedia advocacy to uplift the efforts and capacity of Black communities to combat a range of reproductive violences across structural, state, and scientific domains, such as HIV/AIDS stigma, obstetric racism, and inaccessible or withheld care.  BREHA is invested in collaborative study that honors the transnational work of their comrades and applies their learning in the service of movement building and collective action. Learn more about BREHA.

Center for Counseling and Mental Health

The Amherst College Center for Counseling and Mental Health provides effective, brief mental health treatment to students, using a variety of modes of care including individual and group counseling, psychiatry, case management, urgent care, and 24/7 crisis phone counseling. They also provide consultation, training, and mental health promotion and prevention services to all Amherst College community members to create and enhance psychological well-being. Learn more about counseling and mental health at Amherst.

Food Justice Alliance

The FJA’s mission is to contribute to the struggle for a more just American food system by acknowledging and fighting against the exploitation and inequality that exists at all levels of the food system. This includes advocating for policy change and working within our own community to address barriers to equal access and choice for low-income communities and communities of color, exploitative treatment of producers (including workers in factories, in slaughterhouses, and on farms), treatment of nonhuman animals, and the treatment of the land. Learn more about this registered student group.

Amherst Survival Center

Since 1976, the Amherst Survival Center has promoted the health and well being of residents of Franklin and Hampshire counties with a wide variety of programs designed to help people meet their basic needs.The Center provides a welcoming community where families and individuals can come for food and access to other resources. The organization serves more than 10,000 people each year providing free services, including a food pantry, daily community meals, fresh food distribution, services such as showers and lockers for those experiencing homelessness, information & referral, as well as a variety of other support services. Find out more about the Survival Center.

Craig's Doors

Established in 2011, Craig's Doors is a low-threshold, behavior-based, emergency shelter for adults experiencing homelessness in Hampshire County. They currently operate two year-round shelters and a Resource Center that is open to members of the community in need of resources, support, and referrals. At Craig’s Doors, they believe that all human beings are deserving of safety, dignity, and a sense of belonging, and that access to housing, mental and physical health care, and nutritious food is a fundamental human right. Discover more about their work.

Not Bread Alone

Not Bread Alone is a community meal program in Amherst. Everyone is welcome at their table. They prepare and enjoy family-style meals in a nurturing environment. It's a place to relax, refuel, and connect with others in our community. Eating together builds social bonds. Many of the guests are homeless or live in nearby subsidized housing. Every generation, from kids to seniors, is represented. Find out more about preparing and serving community meals.

Food and the Environment

Li Zhang

Food and farming make fundamental connections between humans and the earth. This course examines how agriculture, food systems, and rural development are entangled with environmental and social transformations around the world, and how we can cultivate solutions for global health, sustainability and social justice. Read More

Island Bodies and Bodily Autonomy

Jallicia Jolly

This course explores Black women’s health and activism through an Africa diasporic lens that bridges intellectual work, grassroots action, and community-based learning. Grounded in faculty-student collaborations, it engages a range of materials and methodologies that explore historical and contemporary experiences of reproductive justice, cultural politics, debt and inequality, tourism, citizenship, and agency in the Caribbean. Read More

Spanish 495: Senior Seminar

Spanish Department Faculty Members

The senior seminar is offered every fall semester and fulfills the capstone requirement. It is designed for Spanish majors to reflect, integrate, and apply what they have learned and accomplished in the major. Projects can take a variety of forms, including but not limited to a performance, a service learning project, an internship, a thesis, or an exhibit. Read More