Politics+Society

An image of the red. white, and blue all-type cover of Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and In Our Lives
Summer 2024
Democracy in Retrograde by Emily Amick ’07 and Sami Sage is an unusually practical book based on a simple premise: Civics isn’t a theoretical idea. It pervades every aspect of our lives and can offer hope as well as frustration.More
Jocelyn Benson ’99, secretary of state of Michigan, spoke about protecting voters’ rights.
Summer 2024
Leaders and activists from around the world gathered at Wellesley on April 6 to grapple with important global questions at the “Renewing Democracy: Women Leading the Way” summit.More
A photo portrait of Banu Subramaniam, Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Summer 2024
Do plants “belong” in a particular place? Why are some considered “native” and others “invasive”? Why do they have Latin names? Are they really “male” and “female”? These are some of the wide-ranging questions at the heart of the new book Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism by Banu Subramaniam, the Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies.More
A photo portrait of Natalie Mendenhall '17
Summer 2024
Natalie Mendenhall ’17, an audio producer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, participated in the Wellesley in Washington program and credits that experience with preparing her to become the news producer she is today. “I feel really blessed to be working in journalism at this changing time … people will always need the news.”More
A photo portrait of Ariana Hellerman '03
Summer 2024
In November 2023, New York City officials erected a tent city at Floyd Bennett Field, an out-of-use airport facility in Brooklyn. Some 2,000 asylum seekers, all families with children, were settled there to face the winter ahead. “This is my backyard,” says Ariana Hellerman ’03. She decided to help.More
Pages & Playlists
Spring 2024
Recent publications by Wellesley authorsMore
An illustration on the cover of RACE RULES depicts a Black person whispering behind her hand.
Spring 2024
Fatimah Gilliam, an Ivy-educated attorney who is CEO of her own diversity consulting group, aims her new book, Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You, at people she thinks can change the way race is viewed and treated in this country.More
Understanding the Clean Energy Transition
Spring 2024
At the end of 2023, a new electric power system quietly came online in Hawai‘i. Unlike its predecessors, this system doesn’t run on coal, natural gas, or fossil fuels of any kind. The Kapolei Energy…More
A photo of Corinne Savides Happel '05
Spring 2024
When Savides Happel ’05 learned that her children’s bus route in suburban Howard County, Md., had been eliminated as part of the district’s adjustment of school walk zones, she got busy.More
A photo of Amy Apricio Clark '92
Spring 2024
Amy Aparicio Clark ’92 is lead director in CVS Health’s philanthropy division, where she has developed grants portfolios addressing disparities in maternal health outcomes between white and Black women, and youth experiencing mental health challenges.More