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When Lila McGill Fox ’85 learned that her husband had been unfaithful, she went to a clinic for testing for sexually transmitted infections (STI). Relieved when screens for syphilis, gonorrhea, and HIV came back negative, she thought she could move on. But a routine Pap smear a year later revealed she had human papillomavirus (HPV), a common STI. Two months later, she was diagnosed with vulvar cancer. A cervical cancer diagnosis followed, and in 2023 she was diagnosed with anal cancer. Lila is still undergoing treatment. Now she is a crusader for vaccination.
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Lauren Gedney ’21 landed their first job on Capitol Hill the fall after graduation. They found their place amid the 10,000 or more congressional staffers within the LGBT Congressional Staff Association. In February, they were elected to a one-year term as its president. “The CSA was one of the first places where I was able to make deep friendships in the workplace,” they say. As president, they hope to continue that legacy of inclusion and belonging
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As a Wellesley student, I knew two things about Katharine Lee Bates 1880: 1. She wrote “America the Beautiful.” 2. A dorm was named after her. In the firmament of Wellesley luminaries, Bates was often outshone by the Albrights and Ephrons. We sang about crowning thy good at convocation and commencement, but otherwise, I didn’t think much about Bates.
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Ruth J. Simmons was enjoying her time as a sophomore at Dillard University, in New Orleans, in 1965 when she got an unsettling message.
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Tributes to members of the Wellesley community
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As Callie Kim ’18 moves among Fortune 500 boardrooms, diplomatic offices, and family offices, she’s often the youngest person in rooms where high-stakes decisions get made. The founder and CEO of consulting firm Waban Impact steps in as a part-time chief of staff for executives and senior leaders, managing the behind-the-scenes work that keeps big initiatives moving. She does it with a clear purpose: helping businesses treat environmental sustainability as a foundation, not as an afterthought.
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Books and media by the Wellesley community
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After 18 busy, muddy, noisy months of construction, Clapp Library reopened its doors in time for the first day of classes in September 2025. It was an exciting time for staff, who had been displaced to temporary offices and came back to new and improved spaces. It was perhaps even more exciting for students, who had been without the library for three semesters.
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Mónica Ballesteros Arias ’11, who hails from Mexico City, was tapped as one of the institute’s first student-scholars in 2010. serves as deputy chief of staff for David Kershenobich, Mexico’s secretary of health. Before taking the position, Mónica had focused her career on the study of economic inequality; she worked at both Mexico’s Ministry of Finance and the Economist Group in the U.S. A job offer arrived in 2024 from the Ministry of Health at a time when she felt U.S. political winds shifting. “I was living in DC and saw myself more as an immigrant—even as someone who is privileged, I felt that ‘otherness.’”