AJC Center was initially founded to serve as a unit of a traditional college campus. After 7 years of innovative, intersectional work within higher education, the Anna Julia Cooper Center has been reimagined a digital hub, reaching far beyond the confines of the Ivory Tower.

This report outlines accomplishments of the Center’s early years. Founded in 2012, the Anna Julia Cooper Center served as a curricular hub for courses addressing intersectional identities; cultivating deep mentoring for undergraduate students; providing opportunities for intellectual collaboration, collegial interaction and scholarly support; offering meaningful events for local audiences; and convening national stakeholders to marshal resources on behalf of neglected subjects and communities.

From its inception, the AJC Center has relied on and sustained mutually empowering relationships with community based organizations.