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…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I publish comics and graphic novels for women and girls under the imprint Alpha Girl Comics and I’m a freelance writer for comics publishers like DC and Vertigo. I’ve done a little bit of everything – At Wellesley I took a semester off to start…
Please give a background on yourself and your career. I grew up in a small town in central California where I spent most my time dreaming of moving east. The reality of my first Boston winter was harsh, but I made it through despite my early (and misguided) insistence on flip-flops year round. I graduated…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I graduated from Wellesley in May 2014, double-majoring in economics and art history. In September, I became the Coordinator of Lectures, Courses, and Concerts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In this role, I help coordinate the ticketed public programs at the Museum. How…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. My name is Rosa Fernández. I graduated from Wellesley College in 2007, and studied history with a focus on Latin America. After coming to the U.S. at age 14 with my twin sister and mother, I attended Manhattan International High School, a small high school…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am a policy analyst and human rights advocate based in San Francisco but originally from New Hampshire. I graduated from Wellesley in 2010 with a degree in South Asian Studies and received my master of public policy from Georgetown University two years later. Since…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. Ha! Sorry, when I see “your career” I have to chuckle just a little because I don’t think of myself as having a “career.” I have entered doors when they opened, and left when I was ready for something new. Today, I am in graduate…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. I am a cancer epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society. I hold a masters degree in epidemiology from Emory University. During graduate school, I interned at federal- and state-level public health organizations in a variety of areas, including HIV, disaster preparedness, and vector-borne diseases. I…
Please give a brief background on yourself and your career. Right now I’m working in Arusha, Tanzania with the Accelerating Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (AISE) team to build and support an innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Tanzania, beginning with Arusha and its surrounding communities. We run Creative Capacity Building workshops, hold events and showcase local technologies in…