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Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I graduated cum laude from Wellesley in 1983 with a degree in English literature. After graduating with my M.B.A. in marketing and finance from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in 1990, I stayed on to complete my PhD in 1994. I spent a few…
Kaley Haskell is a proud member of the Purple Class of 2014. While at Wellesley, she studied English and Elementary Teacher Education. She currently lives in Framingham and works for a Metrowest elementary school as a fifth grade teacher to 22 fantastic scholars. We caught up with Kaley on our Instagram – check out a…
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.…