Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I graduated from Wellesley with a dual degree in International Relations-History and Italian Studies, and today I work at XO Group, a media company with websites The Knot (weddings), The Bump (babies) and The Nest (newlyweds). I am a Business Intelligence Analyst, so I work…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. My name is Cayla Vila and I graduated from Wellesley in 2015 with majors in neuroscience and Spanish. At Wellesley I was involved in Freestyle and Blue Cancer Society/Relay for Life, and loved spending time outside on campus. I’m currently spending one year as an…
Emily Kirk Weddle ’14, Development and Communications Associate, joined Cantata Singers in July 2014. In her position, Emily is responsible for all print and online marketing materials, fundraising efforts, planning Cantata Singers events, and maintaining Cantata Singers’ social media and website. Prior to joining Cantata Singers, Emily participated in internship programs at the Peggy Guggenheim…
Meg Teckman-Fullard ’07 was a producer for Reuters Digital Video in Asia where she led production of video content for Thomson Reuters professional products and was responsible for shaping editorial content for the team’s contributions to Reuters.com and media clients. Meg had been working in Hong Kong with Thomson Reuters for 3 years. She got the position the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…