The Confluence Collaborative for Community Engagement supports faculty and community members and organizations in developing strong partnerships to co-design research projects and academic courses focused on addressing the St. Louis region’s most critical needs.
St. Louis community
Your expertise and community knowledge are the foundation of our work.
WashU scholars
Your work elevates the programs that support the community we call home.
2025 Community-Engaged Research Symposium
The Confluence Collaborative hosted its inaugural research symposium, bringing together WashU scholars and St. Louis community partners.
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Confluence Collaborative Hosts Inaugural Research Symposium on Community-Engaged Research
The Confluence Collaborative for Community Engagement successfully convened its first research symposium, “Bridging Research and Community: A Symposium on Community-Engaged Research,” on October 15, 2025, at the Delmar DivINe.
Sam Fox School launches Design Openings in Covenant Blu Grand Center neighborhood
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has announced the launch of Design Openings. Created in collaboration with the Kranzberg Arts Center and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, this multiyear initiative invites interdisciplinary St. Louis design teams to animate public life in the Covenant Blu Grand Center neighborhood […]
Supporting Students To and Through College: A Q&A with College Bound St. Louis
College Bound is an organization that empowers students in St. Louis facing systemic barriers to achieve transformative lives of higher education and economic possibility through an individualized, holistic, and multi-year investment. The Confluence Collaborative spoke with Milton Mitchell Jr., College Bound’s Chief Executive Officer, and Kaleigh Lawrence, College Bound’s Chief Philanthropy Officer, about the […]
The Collaborative’s work
We create partnerships between our region and WashU. We help community leaders by providing outreach, connections, and resources to meet the needs of St. Louis.
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Whether you’re new to the field or have a specific project you’re ready to embark on, we’re here to support your work.
We’re working toward taking WashU’s significant knowledge and expertise and making sure that the questions we’re asking, the problems we’re trying to tackle, are those that are going to make a difference in the lives of the people who are giving their time (and) sharing their resources to help us generate this new knowledge.
Vetta Sanders-Thompson, PhD, Brown School