Alums Leading the Way

Addison Beaux serves as an executive leadership, strategic communication and management consulting asset. Before becoming a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he served as a staffer to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, speechwriter to the President and Board of Trustees at Stanford University, congressional liaison and speechwriter at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and lead researcher at the Center for Economic Integrity. Addison is trained as a child and family therapist and is also a celebrated storyteller and public speaker.

Charisse Pickron ’08 is an assistant professor at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities. As the director of the Child Brain and Perception Lab, Charisse and her team examine the ways in which social experiences shape how infants and children perceive and represent people in their environment to better understand the way early experiences influence face perception and how young children begin to respond to and understand social constructs such as gender and race.

Kira Banks ’00 is co-founder of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity at Saint Louis University, where she is a professor in the Department of Psychology. She also served as a racial equity consultant for the Ferguson Commission and continued as the Racial Equity Catalyst for Forward Through Ferguson. Her research, teaching and facilitation around equity, diversity and inclusion have helped frame racial equity in the St. Louis region and beyond.

Tahmima Anam’s first novel, "A Golden Age," won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and went on to be translated into 27 languages. It was followed by "The Good Muslim," "The Bones of Grace," and most recently, "The Startup Wife." She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and has been named one of Granta’s best young British novelists. She was a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and was recently elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she now lives in London.

Monica Landry ’90 joined Farallon Capital Management in January 1994, where she began her career in the accounting department and office management. After two years, she transitioned to start the operations group and began trading. In 2001, she was promoted to Partner and led the Trading and Operations Department until she retired in December 2019. Prior to joining Farallon, she worked in a variety of finance and office management roles at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Farah Khan ’98 is a Partner at L Catterton, where she focuses on consumer growth investing in Latin America. Prior to joining L Catterton, she was a Vice President at Sandler Capital Management, where she specialized in growth equity, leveraged buyouts and financings of middle market companies. Prior to that, Farah worked at Apax Partners and in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. She has held a number of volunteer positions at Mount Holyoke, and currently serves as a member of the Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees. She also sits on the Global Advisory Board for Womensphere.

Caitlin Lambert ’09 is the executive director and co-founder of the Children’s Legal Defense Center, a nonprofit legal assistance organization in Hargeisa, Somaliland, that defends wrongfully imprisoned children. Lambert previously served as a legal officer and advisor for the Horizon Institute, developing and managing a criminal justice paralegal program that provided legal assistance to more than 3,000 detainees in Somaliland. Lambert earned a juris doctorate from Villanova University and a master’s degree in international human rights law from the University of Oxford.

Lambert is a recipient of the 2023 Mary Lyon Award from the Alumnae Association, along with Umama Zillur ’18, Mayesha Alam ’10 and Veronika Kivenson FP’13.