Allies and Affinity Groups
The UW Allies program serves graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in basic science labs at UW. Allies are faculty volunteers who provide trainees with support during conflict with mentors and lab mates, assistance in navigating institutional barriers to success, and connection with institutional and community services. Allies stand in solidarity with trainees, so they don’t have to face challenges alone.
Participating Micro Faculty: Dr. Beth Traxler (leadership team), Dr. Michelle Reniere, Dr. Jenny Hyde
Affinity groups. Build your community by participating in one UW’s affinity groups for staff and faculty. These groups are an important part of the UW community and are great way to build your network and foster connections.
Campus Centers and Resources for Equity and Inclusion
Women’s Center Promotes gender equity and social justice on campus and in the larger community.
The CCDE (Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity) strives to be a space where our community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni gather to promote greater equity. Through research collaborations, networking opportunities, action-oriented classes, mentorship programs, and community events we engage in dialogue to think critically about race and its intersections, to interrupt privilege, and ultimately to change the structures of power around us.
Q Center Facilitates and enhances a brave, affirming, liberatory, and celebratory environment for students, faculty, staff, and alumni of all sexual and gender orientation, identities, and expressions.
Latino Center for Health Provides leadership for community-engaged research to promote impactful improvements in the health and well-being of Latinx communities.
Student Parents Resource Center Resources and financial support for student-parents, child care services.
Disability Resources for Students Disability Resources for Students (DRS) recognizes disability as an aspect of diversity that is integral to society and to our campus community. DRS serves as a partner in fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for all University of Washington students.
Diversity Research Institute The UW Diversity Research Institute (DRI), focuses on generating new, interdisciplinary knowledge about diversity, social justice, and institutional transformation.
Student Veteran Life Office helps to represent the unique position and needs of our veteran students and constituents.
International Student Services Office Advising on visa and immigration, academics, housing, taxes and general student life for international students, funding support for International Students.
Indigenous Wellness Research Institute National Center of Excellence
Native Life and Tribal Relations Seeks to centralize the Native-focused resources available on the University of Washington’s campus in Seattle.
Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity Programs Supports undergrad education. Funding opportunities, resources and events.
The UW ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change a campus and national resource for best practices in academic leadership development, cultural change and policy transformation, and increasing the advancement and number of women faculty in STEM fields.
UW Banks Center for Educational Justice The Banks Center for Educational Justice on Coast Salish Lands at the University of Washington is a central location for partnerships, program development, and collaborative research with educational settings that seek to center and sustain Native, Black, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander and all Global Majority young people and communities across multiple intersections with gender, disability, language, land, migration, class, and more.
Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC) is designed to empower and support historically marginalized students on theUniversity of Washington’s campus.
Center for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (CEDI) Advancing diversity and inclusiveness throughout the School of Medicine’s teaching, patient care and research programs.