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Jump to navigation Wellesley Magazine Alumnae Association Wellesley College Search form Search Search Enter your keywords In this Issue Features Fall 2020 Remembering Zoe Rana Zoe Mungin ’11 had always planned to be known—as a writer. She had not expected to become nationally famous as the face of the pandemic that has devastated New York and that continues to rampage around much of the globe. More The True Cost of Change Kellie Carter Jackson, the Knafel Assistant Professor of the Humanities and an assistant professor of Africana studies at Wellesley, offers her perspective on protests that erupted across the country this year. More The First House My husband broke into our first house—that’s how we moved in. The new house was empty, and we didn’t want to waste money on overlapping rental and mortgage payments, so all our belongings were in the front yard. Our own real estate agent texted us: “A little bird told me there are keys in the mailbox. Never met a mailbox lock I couldn’t pick.” Fourteen hours later, we stopped unpacking. More 2020 Alumnae Achievement Awards This year’s recipients of Wellesley’s highest honor are Joan Wallace-Benjamin ’75, M. Darby Dyar ’80 , and Kimberly Dozier ’87 . More From the President From the Editor Letters to the Editor Window on Wellesley Shelf Life WCAA Class Notes Endnote Class Notes Topics Academics Alumnae Lives Arts+Culture Athletics College News Faculty Politics+Society Science+Technology Student Life Web Exclusive About Gallery Past Issues Make a gift Make a gift to Wellesley Magazine Make a gift to Wellesley College Contact Remembering Zoe Rana Zoe Mungin ’11 had always planned to be known—as a writer. She had not expected to become nationally famous as the face of the pandemic that has devastated New York and that continues to… More The True Cost of Change Kellie Carter Jackson, the Knafel Assistant Professor of the Humanities and an assistant professor of Africana studies at Wellesley, offers her perspective on protests that erupted across the country this year. More The First House My husband broke into our first house—that’s how we moved in. The new house was empty, and we didn’t want to waste money on overlapping rental and mortgage payments, so all our belongings were in… More 2020 Alumnae Achievement Awards This year’s recipients of Wellesley’s highest honor are Joan Wallace-Benjamin ’75, M. Darby Dyar ’80 , and Kimberly Dozier ’87 . 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I hadn’t laughed so hard in a long time. Who would have thought that decades later, those pictures would have brought much-needed cheer during a pandemic? More Window on Wellesley Making Wellesley A Home “I love connecting people to things that they need, or people to people whom they don’t even know that they need to meet, or could benefit from meeting. I love being that middle person, and that’s ultimately what College Government is,” says CG President Tatiana Ivy Moise ’21. More Creating A Safe and Socially Distanced Campus Once the decision was made to have students return to campus in the fall, it was all hands on deck as everyone raced to make sure it could happen, and would happen as safely as possible. More On-the-Job Experience, Online COVID-19 may have put a stop to in-person internships, but Wellesley students still gained valuable on-the-job experience this past spring and summer, thanks to alumnae. More Shelf Life Now You See Me This Is One Way to Dance , a debut collection of essays by Sejal Shah ’94, encourages anyone forgotten by white America to: Take. Up. Space. More The Strength Of the Hills Hill Women captures with grace and nuance the identity of Appalachian women, and in doing so acknowledges the role that luck, education, and community play in changing a life. More Daredevils Don’t Give Up The first title in the Derby Daredevils series debuted this spring and won praise from the American Library Association for its “fierce” female characters. We caught up with the author by phone at her home in Albuquerque. More WCAA Toward an Anti-Racist WCAA I have been reminded by more than one alum that anti-racism is a lifelong journey, and I am humbled anew each time. More Honoring Stellar Volunteers Jane Freedman Helmchen ’61, Mei-Mei Tuan ’88, Francine Miltenberger ’78, and Mana Unchino ’88 received the WCAA’s annual Sed Ministrare Volunteer Awards. More Reunion 2021 Given the uncertainty of the global health situation, the College and the Alumnae Association have made the difficult decision that an in-person reunion will not be held on campus in June 2021. More In Memoriam Tributes to Wellesley alumnae by family and friends. More Endnote Fried Rice Days I’ve always been the type of person who eats while thinking about my next meal. It’s an excitement about eating that could be called a preoccupation, but in these not-so-normal times, that mindset feels like a gift. More Alumnae Profiles A Shared Vision For Change “If you’re organizing every day and you have those relationships between yourselves and the community, then you can harness moments like this to really create change through direct action.” More Connection At a Critical Time “I grappled with this idea that treating the patient with medicine wasn’t really working. … I thought, we really have to be there as human beings to comfort and console them and just hold their hand.” More More than Skin Deep “My dream for Tatcha … is to stay small in spirit as we grow in size. Our logo is made up of four hearts, which represent what we cherish: our clients, our craft, our colleagues, and our community. My job is to make sure we always remember this.” More 2020 Alumnae Achievement Awards Remembering Zoe The First House In this Issue Class Notes Topics Web Exclusive About Gallery Past Issues Make a gift Contact From the President From the Editor Letters to the Editor Window on Wellesley Shelf Life WCAA Class Notes Endnote Topics Academics Alumnae Lives Arts+Culture Athletics College News Faculty Politics+Society Science+Technology Student Life Past Issues Facebook Twitter YouTube Tumblr LinkedIn Flickr Instagram Privacy Policy Terms of Use Report a Problem on this Site Log In © 2016 Wellesley College...