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Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a Wellesley alumna I thoroughly enjoy being an active part of a liberal arts college. I teach the major requirement Social Theory course, Sex and Gender, Women…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am originally from Maryland and have loved math and science for as long as I can remember. I spent my early childhood solving complex math problems after school with my father and weekends researching the origins of diseases that afflicted my family members. I guess it comes…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I graduated from Wellesley College in 2013 with a major in Physics and a minor in Mathematics. While a student, I was the House President of Severance Hall, student representative on the Board of Trustees, and member of Tau Zeta Epsilon. In the three years…
Feeling unsure about your career path? Come see your career mentors to find out more about the SkillScan Assessment and what it can provide for your career search. Below is an interview done by Catherine Woodhouse, a junior majoring in International Relations/Political Science, on her experience with SkillScan and what it’s done to help her…
What year are you and what are you studying? My name is Rose Burnam. I’m currently a senior studying Economics. Where did you work this summer, and what was your position? This summer, I worked as a research intern for the Hamilton Project, a part of the Brookings Institution which creates public policies designed to…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. After graduating from Wellesley in 2010, I spent two years working as a litigation paralegal at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Even though I already wanted to go to law school before this job, I am grateful that I spent that time exploring the field…
I have worked in a gender research center, the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, since I graduated Wellesley in 2011. I’ve held three different positions during these five years; I started as the assistant to the executive director and am now a program coordinator. My primary responsibilities are organizing our women’s political campaign training program, From Harvard Square to the Oval Office, working with philanthropic supporters, and supporting the translation of research into public policy (with resources like our Gender Action Portal). In addition to my full time job, I’m also an elected executive board member of our staff union, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, an appointed member of the Cambridge Citizens Committee on Civic Unity, and an active volunteer with the Eastern MA Abortion Fund where I was a member of the board of directors for the past three years. This summer I took the first two courses of my Union Leadership and Administration Labor Studies Master’s Degree program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I am studying to deepen my union involvement and advance the labor movement.
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Natalie Gill, Senior Manager at Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am currently the Senior Manager for Tuberculosis (TB) Access at Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). In this role I work to ensure that the people most in need of TB treatment can access the best…
Vanessa Wiegel, Coordinating Producer at WGBH Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. After graduating from Wellesley with a B.A. in Cinema and Media Studies, I obtained a research and production position working on documentaries for The History Channel and Discovery Channel. From there, I was hired into WGBH’s design department, creating…