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  • Kemi poses in her kitchen with her younger daughter and the Ukrainian couple her family sponsored.

    A Culture of Welcome

    Summer 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    Last fall, Karen “Kemi” Kemirembe ’12. Kemi, her husband, Troy Carl, and their toddler daughter welcomed a Ukrainian family of three into their home through a U.S. government program, Uniting for Ukraine.

  • A photo portrait of Emily Y. Yu

    Emily On Air

    Summer 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    Emily Y. Wu ’06 always knew she wanted to be a journalist. Now she’s the CEO of Ghost Island Media, an award-winning podcast network in Taiwan, where she produces audio stories.

  • An official portrait of Kayle Stevens '99 shows her in uniform and has an American flag in the background.

    A Force in the Military

    Summer 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    Should the U.S. Senate confirm the nomination of Kayle Stevens ’99 later this year, she would not only become the first Wellesley woman to be a Brigadier General in the Air Force, but she and her father would be the first Black father-daughter duo to hold that ranking.

  • A photo portrait of Nicole Sasson '84

    Revolutionizing Prosthetics

    Summer 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    As chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Veteran Affairs-New York Harbor Healthcare System, physiatrist Nicole Sasson ’84 was instrumental in helping test and fine-tune a next-generation robotic arm.

  • A photo portrait of Abby Gardner Athanasopoulos ’02,

    Value in an Art History Major

    Spring 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    When you’re an art history major deeply immersed in 19th-century painting, it might seem unlikely that assessing the value of Coney Island memorabilia is in your future. But that’s what happened for Abby Gardner Athanasopoulos ’02, the founder of Spectrum Appraisals.

  • A photo shows Edie Hu '97 on a beach in Hong Kong, wearing a bright red swim cap.

    Channeling Open-Water Swimming

    Spring 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    Edie Hu ’97 swam the English Channel in 2018 as a two-woman relay, completing the 21 miles in just under 15 hours. After the grueling effort, the lifelong swimmer tinkered with the idea of attempting the feat on her own.

  • A multi-story mural on the side of a building in New York City depicts Shani Evans '96 having her hair braided.

    Ministrations

    Spring 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    The image towers over a street in East Harlem, New York, invoking an intimate and peaceful moment—a Black woman having her hair braided. Shani Evans ’96 is the subject, though she says the artwork is meant to represent a universal, rather than a personal, moment of peace and connection.

  • A photo of Judy Harte '68 outside the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California.

    Laser Focused on Fusion

    Spring 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    For more than half a century, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) in California have dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion to reproduce the process that powers our sun. Computational physicist Judy Harte ’68 has been there almost from the beginning.

  • 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.