Where Are They Now: Anisha Vachani ’12

After graduating from Wellesley, Anisha Vachani ’12 moved to NYC to work with The Boston Consulting Group, traveling across the world to work with a range of companies/school systems. She moved back to Boston in the summer of 2014 to participate in a year-long education-focused fellowship through Education Pioneers, and was placed with Strategic Grant…

Where Are They Now: Satya Twena ’05

Let us introduce Satya Twena ’05. Satya is the CEO and Creative director of Satya Twena Fine Millinery & Makins Hats. Satya’s first entrepreneurial endeavor started in 2010 when her mother lost her hair due to the effects of cancer treatment. Satya continued making hats for herself, her mother and their friends out of her…

Where Are They Now: Cecilia Harvey ’00

Chief Operating Officer – Markets and Securities Services Technology at Citigroup Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. When I was a little girl I played chairman of the board and monopoly with my barbie dolls, and spent hours on my Commodore 128 computer. Based on my childhood games, I suppose it…

Where Are They Now: Nora Mishanec ’14

Nora Mishanec ’14 is the 2014-2015 Susan R. Knafel ’52 Traveling Fellow. She is on a world tour studying entomophagy — the practice of eating insects as food. She spent two months in Mexico and is now in central Japan. At Wellesley, Nora majored in psychology. Her Knafel trip was inspired by a fantastic seminar…

Where Are They Now: Ama Yeboaa Adi-Dako ’14

Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I was an English major and Cinema and Media Studies minor at Wellesley. I started my storytelling journey as the creative director for WASA, writing and directing short films and promos for events. and then working that into internships at Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures through the…

Where Are They Now: Amelia Gray ’03

Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I’m originally from Ohio, and graduated from Wellesley in 2003 with a major in Art History, and I have lived in Boston ever since. After working for a few years in some “starter jobs” (receptionist at a hair salon–GrettaCole in the ‘ville, in fact! and…

Where Are They Now: Erin Connolly ’14

Curious what a career in cancer research looks like? Us too! We asked Erin Connolly ’14 to takeover the MyCWS Instagram and give us an insider’s look into this field. Erin has been living and working in Boston since graduating from Wellesley last year. While at Wellesley, she majored in biology, and has been putting…

Where Are They Now: Olivia Linder ’10

Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. Currently, I am the Assistant Director of Admissions for the MIT Executive MBA (MIT EMBA) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. I started at MIT Sloan just a few months after graduating in 2010 and joined the MIT EMBA at its inception. It was…

Where Are They Now: Courtney Wilson ’08

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…

Where Are They Now: Sondy Springmann ’07

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…