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Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. My name is Rosa Fernández. I graduated from Wellesley College in 2007, and studied history with a focus on Latin America. After coming to the U.S. at age 14 with my twin sister and mother, I attended Manhattan International High School, a small high school…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am a policy analyst and human rights advocate based in San Francisco but originally from New Hampshire. I graduated from Wellesley in 2010 with a degree in South Asian Studies and received my master of public policy from Georgetown University two years later. Since…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. Ha! Sorry, when I see “your career” I have to chuckle just a little because I don’t think of myself as having a “career.” I have entered doors when they opened, and left when I was ready for something new. Today, I am in graduate…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am a cancer epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society. I hold a masters degree in epidemiology from Emory University. During graduate school, I interned at federal- and state-level public health organizations in a variety of areas, including HIV, disaster preparedness, and vector-borne diseases. I…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. Right now I’m working in Arusha, Tanzania with the Accelerating Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (AISE) team to build and support an innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Tanzania, beginning with Arusha and its surrounding communities. We run Creative Capacity Building workshops, hold events and showcase local technologies in…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. While at Wellesley, I was an American Studies major and economics minor. I was a House President and a member of SBOG, and I worked two jobs on campus. I really didn’t know what I wanted to do after Wellesley, but I knew I wanted…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. After attending law school and practicing law for a few years, I had the opportunity to go into federal law enforcement. During my law career I did a lot of volunteer work in the community, and I acquired a new skill set to bring back…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. Thanks in particular to my studies in political science and student activism around the wars in Central America, I left Wellesley very inspired to explore the world and equip myself to be engaged with human rights work. Because of knee surgery my junior year, I…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. While a student at Wellesley, I was heavily involved in Mezcla as a means to achieve equity in higher education for Latin@ students on campus. My participation in Mezcla stemmed from my Latin@ heritage and a commitment to civil rights for all groups of protected…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I worked as a Project Manager in advertising on Madison Avenue before deciding to go into medicine. Because I was a French and Psychology major at Wellesley, I had to do a pre-med post-bacc to get the required courses. While I did my post-bacc at…