Image Credit: Alexander Weick Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I have worked in a gender research center, the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, since I graduated Wellesley in 2011. I’ve held three different positions during these five years; I started as the assistant to the…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I’m Filipino-American and grew up primarily in the Philippines (with some time in Nigeria and Japan mixed in!). When I graduated from high school I moved to the US to attend Wellesley. At Wellesley I mostly took political science classes but ultimately majored in Japanese…
Natalie Gill, Senior Manager at Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am currently the Senior Manager for Tuberculosis (TB) Access at Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). In this role I work to ensure that the people most in need of TB treatment can access the best…
Vanessa Wiegel, Coordinating Producer at WGBH Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. After graduating from Wellesley with a B.A. in Cinema and Media Studies, I obtained a research and production position working on documentaries for The History Channel and Discovery Channel. From there, I was hired into WGBH’s design department, creating…
Senior Product Manager, Etsy Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. Hi Wellesley! I’m a Senior Product Manager at Etsy, where I work with designers and engineers to build features on our website and in the mobile apps. My team works on products to make it easier for Etsy sellers to start and…
Inbound Marketing Specialist, HubSpot My name is Alexandra Lopez-Vila and I am a proud Wellesley alumna from the Class of 2014. I am humbled to have the opportunity to share my brief story with the scholars who will shape and lead the next generation of the world. When I started my first year at Wellesley in August…
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…