In 2021, Professors Munya Munochiveyi, from the History Department, and Tsitsi Masvawure, from the Center of Interdisciplinary Studies, received an SIA grant to work with the Family Health Center of Worcester to collaborate on building out an anti-racism curriculum for health care providers. “The idea is to support the health care providers with skills and information on what racism is, how you identify it and how it might present itself at a health facility,” says Masvawure, who is a medical anthropologist by training and researches health issues like HIV. “It’s such an important project,” Masvawure says. “We’re responding to a community need, and if we can model for other liberal arts colleges and community organizations that these partnerships can be impactful and collaborative, I think that will be a meaningful contribution that academic institutions can make in the communities they reside in.”