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Nora Mishanec ’14 is the 2014-2015 Susan R. Knafel ’52 Traveling Fellow. She is on a world tour studying entomophagy — the practice of eating insects as food. She spent two months in Mexico and is now in central Japan. At Wellesley, Nora majored in psychology. Her Knafel trip was inspired by a fantastic seminar…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I was an English major and Cinema and Media Studies minor at Wellesley. I started my storytelling journey as the creative director for WASA, writing and directing short films and promos for events. and then working that into internships at Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures through the…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I’m originally from Ohio, and graduated from Wellesley in 2003 with a major in Art History, and I have lived in Boston ever since. After working for a few years in some “starter jobs” (receptionist at a hair salon–GrettaCole in the ‘ville, in fact! and…
Curious what a career in cancer research looks like? Us too! We asked Erin Connolly ’14 to takeover the MyCWS Instagram and give us an insider’s look into this field. Erin has been living and working in Boston since graduating from Wellesley last year. While at Wellesley, she majored in biology, and has been putting…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. Currently, I am the Assistant Director of Admissions for the MIT Executive MBA (MIT EMBA) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. I started at MIT Sloan just a few months after graduating in 2010 and joined the MIT EMBA at its inception. It was…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I graduated from Wellesley in 2008 as an English major with a concentration in creative writing. While at Wellesley, I did ROTC and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers. I served for 6.5 years, deployed to Afghanistan and then got…
Alessondra “Sondy” Springmann is a planetary astronomer. She’s working for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return space mission as a graduate researcher at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. She spent two years at Arecibo Observatory observing near-Earth asteroids with the megawatt planetary radar on the 305-meter William E. Gordon radio telescope in Puerto…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. As an associate producer with Power Lunch, CNBC’s show from 1-3pm ET, I’m part of a team that makes live TV happen. That includes writing and producing segments covering business, finance and economic news. At Wellesley, I studied International Relations, focusing on Economics. I was…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and was raised between Japan, Massachusetts, and Arizona. I was always interested in the globalization of things, and knew that I wanted to attend Wellesley and be part of a diverse community. I also love New England, in general.…
Kendall graduated from Wellesley in May 2015 with a double major in political science and economics. At Wellesley, she played on the Varsity Basketball team (go Blue!) and wrote a senior honors thesis on the role of private military contractors in war. Kendall is currently studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan, on a Boren Scholarship. These…