Office for Equity & Inclusion

06/19/2026

"As efforts seem to be increasing to erase history, it's even more important that we don't forget. I don't care what your background is or what you look like. If you cherish liberty, Juneteenth is a holiday for you." —Opal Lee

06/17/2026

Smith College's Office for Equity and Inclusion welcomes its next Vice President for Equity and Inclusion this July!

welcomes Matthew Grimes as our new Vice President for Equity and Inclusion! With over a decade of experience spanning professional sports, public education, and nonprofits, Matt is a nationally recognized leader who knows exactly how to move equity and access from a concept into a live...

05/28/2026

Planting Seeds of Resistance - May 31st, 3:pm, Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace

Join Loretta Ross and Marlene Fried for a conversation on reproductive justice and liberation based on their newly published book, Abortion and Reproductive Justice.

04/16/2026

Please see the below description and poster for the annual Native American and Indigenous Studies x Native Crossroads Symposium on May 1, 2026 at Hampshire College. There will be a keynote from Danika Medak-Saltzman (Native and Indigenous Studies and WGS at Syracuse), who researches colonial archives and sovereignty in Hokkaido.

«Remembering into Kinship: Unlearning Settler Ways» is an interdisciplinary symposium that brings together educators, scholars, artists, students, and community members committed to reimagining education beyond colonial impositions. Grounded in Indigenous perspectives on relationality, reciprocity, and place-based pedagogy, this gathering invites participants to critically examine how settler colonial logics shape our institutions, curriculum, and interpersonal relationships. Through dialogue, storytelling, and collective praxis, the symposium centers the work of unlearning, dislodging, and abolishing extractive, individualistic, and hierarchical modes of thought, calling us to re-center kinship, responsibility, and interdependence. Together, we ask: what does it mean to re-member otherwise, and how might education become a site of resurgence?