• A ohoto of Louis O'Neal looking on at an athletic event

    Louise O’Neal

    Winter 2023

    Class Notes: In Memoriam

    Wellesley College Athletics mourns the passing of former athletic director and Wellesley Athletics Hall of Famer Louise O’Neal, who passed away on Sept. 17, 2022, in Plymouth, Mass. She was 83 years old.

  • Lamiya Mowla ’13

    A First Look Through the Galaxy’s Most Powerful Space Telescope

    Winter 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    Like many science-inclined students, Lamiya Mowla ’13 arrived at Wellesley intending to become a doctor. But an introductory astronomy lesson altered her ambitions—and the course of her life.

  • A photo shows Courtney Streett '09 walking in the Edible Ecosystem on the Wellesley campus.

    Reclaiming Native Connection to the Land

    Winter 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    Courtney Streett ’09, a Native American and member of the Nanticoke Tribe, co-founded a nonprofit, the Native Roots Farm Foundation, to reclaim, cultivate, and celebrate Native relationships with the land, plants, and communities for the next Seven Generations.

  • A photo portrait of Bronwyn Lance '90

    Leading on Capitol Hill

    Winter 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    After nearly 20 years in the House and Senate advising lawmakers on policy, strategy, and messaging, Bronwyn Lance ’90 this year became the first woman in the history of North Carolina’s 11th District to be named chief of staff.

  • A portrait of Michele Moody-Adams '78

    Tracing the Arc of Moral Progress

    Winter 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    In late May 2020, Michele Moody-Adams ’78 went for a walk, hoping to clear her head during a particularly busy season in her life. Instead the Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia, stumbled upon a protest—and the inspiration for her next book.

  • Illustration of the word "Engagement" with a starburst above it

    How Alumnae Engage Today

    Winter 2023

    WCAA

    As the WCAA headed into the holiday season, we looked back on the many ways that Wellesley alums connected with and supported the College and each other in the preceding year.

  • Photo of Laura Wood Cantopher

    On Governance

    Winter 2023

    WCAA

    On the board, we regularly ask ourselves, “Are we spending our time on what matters?” I love this question, because it makes me stop and think, “Are we doing what’s best for Wellesley and our alumnae?”

  • Freshink

    Winter 2023

    New Works

    Recent publications by Wellesley authors

  • The cover of Super Sad Black Girl features a close-up of a woman's face in a stylized painting.

    Art from a Place of Darkness

    Winter 2023

    New Works

    Diamond Sharp ’11 knew from a pretty young age that she was going to be a writer. As a senior at Wellesley she began to write some of the poems in this debut volume, much of which deals with Sharp’s coming to terms with, and treating, her mental illness.