Rana Zoe Mungin ’11 had always planned to be known—as a writer. She had not expected to become nationally famous as the face of the pandemic that has devastated New York and that continues to… More
Kellie Carter Jackson, the Knafel Assistant Professor of the Humanities and an assistant professor of Africana studies at Wellesley, offers her perspective on protests that erupted across the country this year. More
My husband broke into our first house—that’s how we moved in. The new house was empty, and we didn’t want to waste money on overlapping rental and mortgage payments, so all our belongings were in… More
This year’s recipients of Wellesley’s highest honor are Joan Wallace-Benjamin ’75, M. Darby Dyar ’80 , and Kimberly Dozier ’87 . More
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- RT @wellesleyunderg: Sahar Bandial ‘08, a human rights attorney in Pakistan, wins a landmark case for women in Punjab that bans virginit… https://t.co/HAhVXWXl2x
- Veterinarian Yuki Nakayama ’08 (known to many alums through Wellesley Wags and Whiskers on FB) is helping @tuftsvet… https://t.co/u0BYFEoy0q
- We mourn the loss of Miriam DeCosta-Willis ’56, activist, academic, and author. The U of Memphis honored her with a… https://t.co/zDS3zWFNPu
In the middle of the lockdown in April, my sister sent me some outtakes she had found from those long-ago family Christmas shots—bad haircuts, pouting, tears, and all. I hadn’t laughed so hard in a long time. Who would have thought that decades later, those pictures would have brought much-needed cheer during a pandemic?More
Window on Wellesley
“I love connecting people to things that they need, or people to people whom they don’t even know that they need to meet, or could benefit from meeting. I love being that middle person, and that’s ultimately what College Government is,” says CG President Tatiana Ivy Moise ’21.More
Once the decision was made to have students return to campus in the fall, it was all hands on deck as everyone raced to make sure it could happen, and would happen as safely as possible.More
COVID-19 may have put a stop to in-person internships, but Wellesley students still gained valuable on-the-job experience this past spring and summer, thanks to alumnae.More
Shelf Life
This Is One Way to Dance , a debut collection of essays by Sejal Shah ’94, encourages anyone forgotten by white America to: Take. Up. Space.More
Hill Women captures with grace and nuance the identity of Appalachian women, and in doing so acknowledges the role that luck, education, and community play in changing a life.More
The first title in the Derby Daredevils series debuted this spring and won praise from the American Library Association for its “fierce” female characters. We caught up with the author by phone at her home in Albuquerque.More
WCAA
I have been reminded by more than one alum that anti-racism is a lifelong journey, and I am humbled anew each time.More
Jane Freedman Helmchen ’61, Mei-Mei Tuan ’88, Francine Miltenberger ’78, and Mana Unchino ’88 received the WCAA’s annual Sed Ministrare Volunteer Awards.More
Given the uncertainty of the global health situation, the College and the Alumnae Association have made the difficult decision that an in-person reunion will not be held on campus in June 2021.More
Endnote
I’ve always been the type of person who eats while thinking about my next meal. It’s an excitement about eating that could be called a preoccupation, but in these not-so-normal times, that mindset feels like a gift.More
Alumnae Profiles
“If you’re organizing every day and you have those relationships between yourselves and the community, then you can harness moments like this to really create change through direct action.”More
“I grappled with this idea that treating the patient with medicine wasn’t really working. … I thought, we really have to be there as human beings to comfort and console them and just hold their hand.”More
“My dream for Tatcha … is to stay small in spirit as we grow in size. Our logo is made up of four hearts, which represent what we cherish: our clients, our craft, our colleagues, and our community. My job is to make sure we always remember this.”More