• Stephanie Hsieh ’89

    Rooted in History, Aiming for Innovation

    WINTER 2025

    WCAA

    This year marks an extraordinary chapter for our community as the Wellesley College Alumnae Association officially merges into the College.

  • Portrait of Mfoniso Udofia ’06 sitting in The Huntington Theatre with the stage behind her

    Processing in Play

    WINTER 2025

    Feature Story

    Mfoniso Udofia ’06 returns to Massachusetts to launch the Ufot Family Cycle, an ambitious nine-play series about three generations of a Nigerian American family

  • Alumnae Achievement Awards 2024

    Fall 2024

    Feature Story

    The 2024 recipients of the Alumnae Achievement Award are Claire Parkinson ’70, climate change scientist and social justice advocate; Joanne Berger-Sweeney ’79, college president and professor of neuroscience; and Amy Weaver ’89, business leader and...

  • A photo shows the Wellesley in Washingtin interns around a conference room table

    Wellesley Takes Washington

    Fall 2024

    WCAA

    Amy Huang ’99 clearly remembers her experience in the Wellesley in Washington (WIW) internship program the summer after her junior year. A Chinese studies major, she interned with Leslie Griffin ’89, who at the time worked in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Asia department.

  • A photo portrait of Kathryn Mackintosh, WCAA executive director

    Sisterly Wisdom

    Fall 2024

    WCAA

    Earlier this year, I was fortunate to reconnect with my Wellesley little sister. We were matched in Pomeroy Hall in 2001 when I was a junior and she was a first-year. We had exchanged emails...

  • Pages & Playlists

    Fall 2024

    New Works

    Recent publications by Wellesley authors

  • In Brief

    Fall 2024

    New Works

    Thumbnail reviews of new publications from the Wellesley community

  • The cover of Their Divine Fires depcits a phoenix rising from flames.

    Woman Warriors

    Fall 2024

    New Works

    Anger. Love. Shame. Desire. Betrayal. These are just a few of the emotions that burn within the women in Their Divine Fires , the debut novel by Wendy Chen ’14. Spanning four generations in one Chinese family, the story begins in 1917.

  • Walden Before Thoreau

    Fall 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    When people hear “Walden Pond” they usually first think of the writer, transcendentalist, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who spent two years living in solitude on the shore of the pond, culminating in his classic...