Towards a more just future, together
In and beyond the classroom, Mount Holyoke is a community of action. From cultural affinity centers and student groups to dialogue across differences and signature events, you can engage with new perspectives and advocate for what matters most to you. Like students before you, you’ll become a social-change agent — and part of a long tradition of blazing trails, moving us all toward a better world.
Expand your understanding of, and involvement with, social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion issues on campus with this peer-led program.
Come together across differences and commonalities to create shared understanding and inspire collective action.
Explore our legacy of activism to understand where we’ve been and how you can further a more diverse, equitable and inclusive future.
Campus Voices
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Happening at Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke College’s Department of Jewish Studies welcomed Riv-Ellen Prell, professor emerita, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, to speak about Christian nationalism, white power and American antisemitism.
Mount Holyoke College film and media student Aderet Fishbane has been selected as one of NBCU’s Original Voices Accelerator Fellows. The six-month fellowship is designed to provide a direct pipeline to a career for young creatives.
In an Op-Ed published in the Boston Globe, Mount Holyoke professor Andrew G. Reiter details why the U.S. must not repeat the mistakes of the Civil War in dealing with Jan. 6 offenders and advocates to hold those who commit violence accountable.
