The Confluence Collaborative for Community Engagement supports faculty across the WashU ecosystem 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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Ways to Prioritize You: Q&A with Coach Melody McClellan, AADP
After nearly two decades in pharmaceutical sales, Coach Melody McClellan, a member of the Confluence Collaborative’s Community Collaborative, pivoted to a career as an entrepreneur and now Wellness Expert/Strategist. McClellan founded Unwrap You, a wellness consulting practice that offers corporate programs, motivational speaking, youth programming, and a 90-day course. We spoke with McClellan about her […]
Promoting Literacy Through Representation: A Q&A with Aja La’Starr Owens
A Q&A with Aja La’Starr Owens about her journey as an author, the importance of diverse representation in children’s literature, and her mission to help families develop a love for literacy together.
SPHERE convening addresses how environmental change shapes disease risk
The first annual convening of WashU Public Health’s Solutions through Planetary Health Research (SPHERE) network explored how infectious disease risk is changing as the environment changes, and why coordinated, multisectoral collaborations are essential to respond effectively.
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