Dotted throughout Tufts’ campus are eight Identity Centers that compose the Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion. Visit these wood-frame houses for comfortable spaces to gather, study and find mutual community. Open during the week for student use, the centers also offer regular events, programs and mentorship. Many centers were founded and continue to be sustained as a result of student activism, most recently expressed in the calls to establish a Southwest Asian and North African identity center.
Latinx Center | @tuftslatinxcenter | First floor of Bolles House, 226 College Ave.
LGBT Center | @tuftslgbt | Upper floors of Bolles House, 226 College Ave.
Students can access the Gender Affirmation Closet upstairs for free gender-affirming clothing, binders, makeup and other donated items.
Africana Center | @tuftsafricana | Capen House, 8 Professors Row.
Center for STEM Diversity | @tuftscsd | First floor of 20 Professors Row.
A mural painted by Angela Krieg hangs in the Center for STEM Diversity.
FIRST Resource Center | @tuftsfirst | Second floor of 20 Professors Row.
Monarch butterflies, a symbol for journeys of migration, represent students with undocumented status and decorate the walls in the FIRST Center.
Polaroids from the Bridge to Liberal Arts Success at Tufts summer program are pictured.
Photos of the FIRST Center interns and peer leaders decorate the walls.
A mural by YOBA is in homage to the FIRST community.
Women’s Center | @tuftswomensctr | 55 Talbot Ave.
The Women’s Center is open to people of all genders and identities, with a focus on intersectional feminism.
Asian American Center | @tuftsasianamerican | Start House, 17 Latin Way.
The Ube Room in the Asian American Center is pictured on Dec. 7.
Board games are pictured in the Mango Room.
Indigenous Center | @tuftsindigenous | 112 Packard Ave.
SWANA Lounge | Back of West Hall, 175 Packard Ave.
While it is not yet a full center incorporated in the DSDI, a room in West Hall opened earlier this fall as a community space for Southwest Asian and North African students.
The SWANA lounge is on a year-long loan from the Graduate Students’ Association.
