Wellesley College Career Education Official Blog
blake desormeaux graduated from Wellesley in 2013 with a Cognitive & Linguistic Science major. They now work as a Community Strategist for Big Spaceship, a digital agency based in Brooklyn, New York. But what does a Community Strategist do? Says desormeaux, “My job is the internet and I love it. Part of what I do…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am a changemaker – environmentalist, activist, artist. My work ranges from environmental sustainability and climate change to social/environmental/food justice. I currently work as a CivicSpark Fellow on climate change projects with the City of Emeryville in California and am involved with a number of community/social…
What do you get when you combine a baby, one K-8 school, and a room full of nerds? Answer: one week in the life of Jennifer Gordievsky ’07. This former Philosophy major found her love for education after Wellesley, and has since gone on to become the principal of a K-8 school in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am an artist, designer, and filmmaker, and I graduated from Wellesley with a major in Media Arts and Sciences in 2004. I started off my career with various TV stations including WGBH in Boston and DoorDarshan in Ahmedabad, and then as a Producer /…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I graduated from Wellesley in 2015 with a degree in Computer Science. While at Wellesley, I was a member of the rugby team and took voice lessons in the Music Department. I currently work at KAYAK, an online travel search engine, as a Release Engineer.…
After graduating in May 2014, Kathryn Christman ’14 drove across country and moved to beautiful San Luis Obispo, CA. After a few months of doing freelance web design and development, she started work as a front end developer at a consultancy. Except it wasn’t totally the life she imagined for herself after Wellesley. In the…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am currently an Immigration Analyst with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, under U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Refugee, Asylum and International Operations directorate. I work in the San Francisco office, where I provide critical operations and administrative support for one of the eight…
Amita Parashar Kelly ’06 is a digital editor and producer on NPR’s politics desk. Before covering politics, Amita produced and edited for NPR’s Tell Me More, a program that went behind the headlines to talk about multicultural life, faith, parenting, health and more. She spend all her free time these days reading Wellesley’s alum groups on Facebook.…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I graduated from Wellesley with a dual degree in International Relations-History and Italian Studies, and today I work at XO Group, a media company with websites The Knot (weddings), The Bump (babies) and The Nest (newlyweds). I am a Business Intelligence Analyst, so I work…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. My name is Cayla Vila and I graduated from Wellesley in 2015 with majors in neuroscience and Spanish. At Wellesley I was involved in Freestyle and Blue Cancer Society/Relay for Life, and loved spending time outside on campus. I’m currently spending one year as an…