Tag: Career Tips

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. 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.…

Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I graduated in 2014, majoring in Women and Gender Studies with a concentration in Public Health and minoring in Middle Eastern Studies. While at Wellesley, I was a member of Ethos, Wellesley Women for Public Health, and Wellesley Women in Business. I was also a…

Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. After graduating from Wellesley, I worked as a credit derivatives trader. Being at Ground Zero for 9/11 made me reevaluate my life, and I enrolled at Harvard Business School and interned at a global skincare brand. While testing products on my skin, I developed acute…