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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…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. While at Wellesley I majored in American Studies because the subject matter interested me, and I minored in Economics so that I could get a job. Since graduation I have had quite a few roles. Immediately after Wellesley, I joined IBM as a Research Associate…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I was the type of child whose strengths were always very clear: while my math skills were average, I had advanced verbal ability and strong interests in history and the humanities. That awareness carried me on to a high school specializing in American History and…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I grew up in Los Angeles, California and graduated from Wellesley in 2007. I reached out to a Wellesley alum in the Los Angeles/Orange County area to speak about her career in art, and I ended up taking her position at a small art advisory…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I graduated from Wellesley in 2008 with a major in sociology and minor in economics. I went straight into investment banking after having worked at a bulge bracket firm during my summers at Wellesley. I ended up working full-time for a boutique investment bank focused…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I started out performing stand-up at the world-famous Comedy Studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Today, I write and tour all over the world. In 2014, I was selected as one of the Top 100 comedians invited to compete on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. I’ve traveled to more…