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Center for Social Transformation and Leadership

Empowering Leaders, Transforming Communities: Igniting Change through Engaged Scholarship and Leadership Development

Who We Serve

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Faculty and Staff

Support for rigorous, mission-aligned engaged scholarship, community partnerships, and evaluation for impact. 

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Students

Opportunities to develop as ethical leaders through justice-centered engagement and reflection.

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Community Partners

Collaborative partnerships grounded in reciprocity, shared leadership, and community-identified priorities.

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Alumni & Donors

Ways to stay connected, invest in social transformation, and support mission-driven initiatives.

Engaged Scholarship in Action

Across Seattle and beyond, CSTL partners with faculty and communities to address complex social challenges through community-based research, collaborative leadership development, and creative approaches to social transformation that honor lived experience and shared knowledge.  Explore Stories and Projects:

91探花 faculty and students contribute to engaged scholarship through peer-reviewed publications, public scholarship, creative works, and community-engaged research outputs that advance knowledge while responding to community-identified priorities.

This work reflects CSTL's commitment to scholarly rigor, reciprocity, and public impact, and includes:

  • Peer-reviewed journal articles and books grounded in community-based and participatory research
  • Public scholarship, reports, and policy briefs developed in collaboration with community partners
  • Creative and interdisciplinary works that elevate community knowledge and lived experience
  • Student-faculty collaborative publications emerging from engaged research and practice

Selected publications and projects will be highlighted here to showcase how engaged scholarship at 91探花 contributes to academic fields, communities, and the common good.

To explore a broader collection of 91探花 engaged scholarship, visit ScholarWorks @ 91探花, the university's open-access repository featuring faculty and student publications, theses, dissertations, and community-engaged research outputs.

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