![Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/partners/LGBTQ-.jpeg)
The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center provides community, leadership, advocacy, services and support to the Silicon Valley’s LGBTQ+ People and their Allies. The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center opened its doors on March 1, 1981 in a two-room storefront on Keyes St. in south downtown San Jose. A year earlier, the DeFrank Center's founders had watched with concern as Santa Clara County residents voted to repeal ordinances extending housing and employment protections to lesbians and gay men.
![AIMS](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/images.png)
AIMS College Prep is a public charter school in Oakland dedicated to closing the opportunity gap for disadvantaged students through a rigorous STEAM curriculum, ensuring all graduates are prepared for college with a 100% acceptance rate
![Communities for a Better Environment](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/communities_for_a_better_environment_logo.jpeg)
Grassroots environmental justice organization working towards a just transition for communities blighted by industrial (air) pollution and environmental racism
![Dan Hoyle](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/Dan-Hoyle.png)
Dan Hoyle is an actor and writer whose brand of immersion research theater has been hailed as "riveting, funny and poignant" (New York Times) and "hilarious, moving and very necessary" (Salon). His solo shows BORDER PEOPLE, EACH AND EVERY THING, THE REAL AMERICANS, TINGS DEY HAPPEN, and CIRCUMNAVIGATOR, have toured the country and overseas
![Emily Cohen Ibañez](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/Emily-Cohen-IbanÌez-359x359.jpg)
Emily Cohen Ibañez is a Latinx filmmaker based in Oakland who earned her doctorate in Anthropology (2011) with a certificate in Culture and Media at New York University. Her film work pairs lyricism with social activism, advocating for labor and environmental justice
![Environmental Justice Committee](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/https-::nlgsf.org:programs-committees:nlg-sfba-committees:environmental-justice-committee:-360x340.png)
The Environmental Justice (EJ) committee of the NLG-SFBA seeks to support the organizing of frontline communities in the Bay Area most impacted by poor environmental conditions and to fortify their efforts by providing legal defense and support such as impact litigation, activist defense, legislative analysis, submission of public records acts and consultation based on needs of the EJ movement.
![New Voices Bay Area TIGQ Chorus](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/New-Voices-Bay-Area-TIGQ-Chorus.jpeg)
New Voices Bay Area TIGQ Chorus is a mixed-voice choral ensemble for singers who self-identify as transgender, intersex, or gender-queer (TIGQ).
![Related Tactics](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/Related-Tactics.png)
Related Tactics is an artistic collaboration with projects made at the intersection of race and culture. Their projects explore the connections between art, movements for social justice, and the public through trans-disciplinary exchanges, collective making, and dialog.
![UCSC Humanities Institute](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/UCSC-Humanities-Institute.png)
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz is a hub for new directions in Humanities research and teaching, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and public engagement.
![University of Maryland’s Critical Center for Literary and Comparative Studies](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/University-of-Marylandâs-Critical-Center-for-Literary-and-Comparative-Studies.webp)
The Center showcases the research and creative activities of the department as well as helps develop new knowledge in literary and comparative studies. It actively promotes collaboration with other departments and programs
![Valley Verde](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/Valley-Verde.jpeg)
Valley Verde is a non-profit 501(3)(c) organization, which promotes healthy eating and provides food access and micro-entrepreneurship training to low-income families of San José and Gilroy.
![Veggielution](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/Veggielution.png)
Connects people from diverse backgrounds through food and farming to build community in east San Jose.
![Winchester Mystery House](/media/college-of-arts-and-sciences/center-for-the-arts-and-humanities/off-campus-partner/Winchester-Mystery-House.png)
The Winchester Mystery House® is an architectural wonder and historic landmark in San Jose, CA that was once the personal residence of Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to a large portion of the Winchester® Repeating Arms fortune.