Politics+Society

On the Road Together
Winter 2016
Zilpa Oduor ’18 was a summer intern in the Albany, N.Y., field office of the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, where she helped refugees, many of them Syrian, get settled by shopping for food, setting up apartments, and developing employment plans.More
Telling the Story
Winter 2016
Annie Linskey ’97 was working as a press secretary on Capitol Hill when she started noticing that reporters had the better jobs. She soon left the Hill for the Baltimore Sun . Now, Annie is covering the Democrats in the 2016 presidential election for the Boston Globe .More
Freshink
Winter 2016
Recent books by Wellesley authors.More
Perspectives on the Global Refugee Crisis
Winter 2016
As the Syrian refugee crisis deepened, we talked with Elizabeth Holzer ’00, who studies how people re-engage with politics in situations of violence and instability.More
A Name Worth Keeping
Winter 2016
If suffragist Lucy Stone’s name is recalled at all, it’s likely because she kept it when she married, as an act of rebellion against women’s second-class status in 19th-century America.More
One Child’s Journey
Winter 2016
As a result of China’s one-child policy, Maya Ludtke ’19 grew up in Cambridge, Mass., rather than Xiaxi, China. She recently went in search of missing pieces of her Chinese identity and reconnected with girls from her “hometown.”More
Campaign 2016: a Teach-In
Winter 2016
At every turn, the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign is setting itself apart from those of years past in huge ways. While the country is getting amped up for November, Wellesley is taking stock of some of this election’s most significant issues and trends. Six of the College’s own are here to help guide you through this unpredictable election.More
Hunger Gains
Rajul Pandya-Lorch ’85 works to end hunger through her work at the International Food Policy Research Institute. She’s learned that hunger is exceedingly complex, hunger cannot be fought from an office building in a capital city, and hunger does not take away a person’s dignity.More
Back on Campus
Fall 2015
When Ama Baafra Abeberese ’04 returned to Wellesley to interview for a position as assistant professor of economics, she found herself presenting her research in a room in Pendleton where she had once taken a class.More
Writing for Change
Fall 2015
In early 2012, Diane Silvers Ravitch ’60 was riding in the back of a car with New Yorker staff writer David Denby, who was writing a 7,000-word profile of her for the magazine. Diane’s career up to that point had been prolific and remarkable by all accounts.More