Community Action Gateway

The Community Action Gateway (CACT) offers first-year Trinity College students the opportunity to engage with Hartford’s communities through community-based research and social change projects.

Students in the gateway take two courses, one in the fall semester and one in the spring semester of their first year. Learn more about CACT courses here.

The Community Action Gateway is a good fit for students who:

• Value working collaboratively and in community to advance social change and social justice
• Want to learn more about Hartford and ways to work alongside community partners as a student at Trinity College
• Are interested in the ways in which their background and positionality shape their engagement with people, organizations, and communities
• Want to gain experience using research and communications to help local organizations with their social change work

By participating in the Gateway, students will:

• Learn about different ways of creating social change through experiential learning projects
• Design and execute community-based research and social impact projects related to education; housing; economic development; language, culture, and identity; and social inequality
• Develop skills to identify and develop solutions to pressing social challenges
• Become part of a dedicated community of students, faculty, and community partners committed to social change in and beyond Hartford

Questions about the gateway can be directed to Gabby Nelson.