In the spirit of collaboration, the people of the University of Missouri–St. Louis forge community partnerships that reach throughout St. Louis and Missouri to uplift, delight, improve and aid. This map represents a small sample of these efforts by the College of Business Administration, the College of Education, the College of Nursing, the College of Optometry, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the Department of Psychology, the Des Lee Collaborative Vision, the E. Desmond Lee Fine Arts Education Collaborative, the Missouri Institute of Mental Health and the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center.
From sober driving to fighting food insecurity, UMSL alum Samantha Star Brainerd is committed to community service
Brainerd, who graduated with her bachelor’s degree from UMSL in 2018, works as a human resources associate specialist at Mastercard.











