To: The Wellesley College Community
From: Paula A. Johnson, President
Subject: Interim Chief of Staff to the President Piper Starr Orton
Date: September 7, 2016
I am very pleased to announce that, effective September 12, Piper Starr Orton has agreed to serve as interim Chief of Staff to the President for a period of six months. Piper will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the President’s Office along with special projects and priorities. She will also help me better understand and fine-tune the structure and staffing of the President’s Office moving forward.
Piper was most recently the director of Women’s Health Programs at the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she was responsible for developing and implementing interdisciplinary programs in women’s health. She was instrumental in shaping strategic vision, priorities, and short- and long-term plans for the Connors Center, and then overseeing execution of those plans.
Piper’s extensive management experience has been honed in leadership roles in nonprofit, mission-driven organizations, which include Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, and the Harvard Business School. She received her BA from Williams College and her MBA from Cornell University.
I have worked with Piper at the Connors Center and I am confident that you will find her to be a very able and collegial colleague. Please join me in welcoming her to Wellesley.
