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…
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…
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…
Kendall graduated from Wellesley in May 2015 with a double major in political science and economics. At Wellesley, she played on the Varsity Basketball team (go Blue!) and wrote a senior honors thesis on the role of private military contractors in war. Kendall is currently studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan, on a Boren Scholarship. These…
Olivia Dumont, a member of the 2015 yellow class, was awarded the Susan Rappaport Knafel Travel Fellowship. She is spending the next year exploring maternal health and reproductive politics in six or seven countries. In regards to her travel, Olivia says: “But as I’ve learned in the past month, this year is primarily a study of spontaneity, adventure, and…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am currently a Professor of Theater in the Department of Theater and Dance at Bowdoin College. Actually, that’s not quite accurate. At this precise moment (fall 2015), I’m a Fulbright Scholar teaching theater and performance studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I’m also…
Below are this week’s upcoming events and deadlines at the CWS. These listings and more can be found in MyCWS. Make sure you subscribe so that you receive the updates directly to your inbox! Monday, April 13- PEEK into life at Harvard Business School |5:00-6:30PM | Wellesley College Club, Counsel Dining Room – Would you like to PEEK into…
Below are this week’s upcoming events and deadlines at the CWS. These listings and more can be found in MyCWS. Make sure you subscribe so that you receive the updates directly to your inbox! Monday, April 6- Fulbright U.S. Student Program Info Session | 4:30-5:30PM | GRH 442 (CWS library) – The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants…
Below are this week’s upcoming events and deadlines at the CWS. These listings and more can be found in MyCWS. Make sure you subscribe so that you receive the updates directly to your inbox! Wednesday, April 1- Alternative Breaks Site Leader Info Session | 12:30-1:30PM | PNE 239 – The success of each Alternative Break (AB) trip depends…
Below are this week’s upcoming events and deadlines at the CWS. These listings and more can be found in MyCWS. Make sure you subscribe so that you receive the updates directly to your inbox! Monday, March 16 – Quick Fix Grant Deadline | NOON | MyCWS – CWS “Quick Fix” Grants provide small amounts of funding to support…