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Three Mount Holyoke professors spoke at Final Lecture, giving talks that ranged from aspirational to deeply personal.
Mount Holyoke College held its seventh annual Building On Our Momentum (BOOM!) day-long learning conference with more than 45 sessions that included both in-person and recorded content.
The Summit on Women’s Leadership on Climate Justice at Mount Holyoke College held more than a dozen events over the course of the three-day summit that included keynote speakers, panelists and workshop leaders, all who were women or gender-diverse people.
“I definitely want to stay connected with art, and that’s ultimately where I would love my career to go — working with a museum or within the art field.”
“I was a shy, sort of unaware person from a very conservative town. I was sort of the odd one out there, and then I came here and fell into my people and the things that I want to be doing.”
“Immediately, I realized [Kenneth Colodner’s] lab researched exactly what I was interested in, and it was one of these weird meant-to-be moments.”
“I really fell in love with the idea of a [women’s college that’s gender diverse] as a safe place. I really liked that there was a place where I didn’t necessarily have to compete with the male population to be heard.”
“Something about Mount Holyoke seemed welcoming. I liked the beauty of the campus, the energy, the life. It seemed more collaborative than other places. I knew immediately it was the place for me.”
Mount Holyoke has developed a new major in critical race and political economy to explore the intersections of power and identity that shape personal experience and the world.
A two-day Intergroup Dialogue workshop in mid-January provided 37 Mount Holyoke faculty and student life staff members with the opportunity to engage in cross-identity dialogue about race and other diversity-related issues.
