Social Action Alliance

Our leaders are socially conscious, active collaborators who engage their personal and professional skills to enact social change.

Cultivating Change Makers for the Good of All

Vision

Embed collective social action in the university culture to promote public service beyond.

Mission

Inspire and prepare socially empathetic collaborators to identify and activate their strengths for the good of all.

Social Action Incubator

The fundamental transformative experience of the Social Action Alliance is the Social Action Incubator. This annual retreat presents a unique opportunity for each cohort of students, from all campuses, to come together in person and learn the core principles of our program while getting to know each other.

Internships

Relevant field experience is an invaluable complement to academics. What's more, being compensated lessens the burden of choosing between access to opportunity and fulfilling financial obligations. Built on college-to-career competencies, our internship initiative aims to provide engaging internships that pay SAA members for the hard work of doing good.

Events & Workshops

Our program emphasizes the importance of practice-based learning, even in our extra-curricular activities. In addition to coursework and internships, SAA will host regular events and workshops that foster self-reflection, collaboration skills and exposure to cross-sector organizations and the people who run them.

There's Never Been a Better Time Than Now...

to share in the collective work of making communities equitable for everyone.

The Social Action Alliance (SAA) at Georgia State aims to inspire and prepare the next generation of collaborators to identify wicked social problems, work across sectors and disciplines and impact the world with innovative solutions. Future journalists, lawyers, artists, engineers – all are welcome to begin discovering and designing how to align their personal motivations, skillsets and career goals to do good.

Georgia State is in the heart of Atlanta, which has long been the cornerstone of change and the home of social justice giants. In continuing the legacy of one of those inspiring trailblazers, Ambassador Andrew Young, this program is inclusive, open to all undergraduate disciplines across our six campuses and 12 schools and colleges. With social empathy at its core, practice-based, multidisciplinary frameworks will guide student coursework, internships and co-curricular activities, leading to a certificate in Collective Social Action.

The SAA calls on all interested undergraduates to ACT! and make the world better for those who come after them.

Are you ready to make an impact?

The Social Action Alliance is excited to welcome its first cohort of students in spring semester 2022. If you are interested in joining this group of student advocates, click "Learn More" below for more information.