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Summer 2020

The Alumnae Association welcomes five new board members: Laura Wood Cantopher ’84, Laura Sue Cohen D’Annunzio ’85, Lauren Young Durbin ’99, Amy Huang ’99, and Leilani Stacy ’18.

Laura Wood Cantopher ’84
Mount Pleasant, S.C.
President Elect, 2020–21
President, 2021–24

  • Recently retired from a career in educational publishing and philanthropic consulting
  • M.B.A., Harvard University
  • Wellesley activities: chair, 2019 search committee for WCAA executive director; former WCAA board member, interim executive director, and staff (director of clubs); current class of ’84 Wellesley Fund representative; former ’84 president, reunion chair, nominating chair, Durant giving chair; former member of the National Development and Outreach Council.

Laura Sue Cohen D’Annunzio ’85
San Antonio, Texas
Director, 2020–22

  • Former executive vice president and chief people officer, Rackspace
  • M.B.A., University of Chicago
  • Wellesley activities: member and former co-chair, Business Leadership Council; mentor on the Hive; alumnae admission representative and interviewer, Chicago, Atlanta, Texas; former class of ’85 president, vice president, and reunion committee member; former member, Wellesley in China host committee

Lauren Young Durbin ’99
Richmond, Va.
Director, 2020–22

  • Founder/career transition coach, Tyche Career Coaching
  • J.D., New York Law School
  • Wellesley activities: Co-chair of the WCAA’s Inclusion and Diversity Engaging Alums (IDEA) Working Group; mentor on the Hive; mid-Atlantic rep for Wellesley Alumnae of African Descent (WAAD); former president, vice president, admissions rep, and webmistress for Wellesley in Central and Coastal Virginia

Amy Huang ’99
Washington, D.C.
Director, 2020–22

  • Senior manager, Marsh and McLennan Companies Global Technology Infrastructure
  • M.B.A., New York University
  • Wellesley activities: member and admission interviewer for Washington Wellesley Club; mentor on the Hive; mentor, panelist, and assistant matching interns with mentors for Wellesley in Washington internship program

Leilani Stacy ’18
Cambridge, Mass.
Young Alumnae Director, 2020–2023

  • Americorps Foodcorps service member at the Mayor’s Office of Food Access in Boston. Plans to attend the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law in the fall
  • Wellesley activities: mentor on the Hive; while at Wellesley, an inaugural Ministrare Fellow for Career Education’s Office of Civic Engagement, where she coordinated student volunteer opportunities at the South Middlesex Correctional Center
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