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…
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…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I emigrated with my family from Mexico to Moses Lake, Washington when I was three years old. Growing up, my parents emphasized the importance of education. As a child, I always wanted to learn more about different cultures and languages. I remember pointing to different…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I was born in Houston, TX to immigrant parents from Mexico and Peru. My mother fought for me to attend the top schools across town. If it hadn’t been for my amazing teachers, I would have never gone to Wellesley or received my Master’s degree…
The Center for Work and Service recently caught up with Bernice Chan ’16 to follow-up on her internship experience last summer with Asociación Cordobesa de Parálisis Cerebral y Afecciones Similares (ACPACYS) in Córdoba, Spain. The ACPACYS internship is part of the CWS Global Engagement Advanced Projects. Please give a brief background on yourself and your academic/professional interests. I am…
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…
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, October 20 – Marine Corps Officer Programs Info Session | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM | Lulu Wang Center – Have you ever thought about serving in…
“Non ministrari, sed ministrare” It was something in these words – something in this mission – that brought me to where I am today. My name is Chaitra Nerurkar, I am part of the Green Class of 2013, and I studied History and South Asian Studies at Wellesley. I am now a Teach for India…
“Yes, of course I remember/ how could I forget how you feel…” As the soothing words of Frank Ocean’s “Thinking of You” washed over me, I thought back to when I was a senior at Wellesley: anxious for what was to come, nostalgic about everything and everyone, but nevertheless eager to burst out of the…
One of the many valuable lessons I learned at Wellesley was a commitment to service. Whether this meant volunteering to mentor children, joining a professional or academic organization, or pursuing opportunities in government or the public sector, the Wellesley brand, “women who will make a difference in the world,” stuck with me. During senior year,…