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“I was finding the math in my drawings and the music in my art. I grew to love architecture, seeing where I could apply scientific principles to the arts.”

Mount Holyoke College undergraduates volunteer at Homework House, tutoring elementary school students in the city of Holyoke.

“I feel so lucky to be admitted to this incredible Frances Perkins program. The support for students is really unparalleled.”

“This is the place where I can really let my voice be heard by other people, where I can figure out my potential as a woman, and as a woman of color.”

“Playing squash challenged me to push myself beyond what I thought I could achieve as an athlete. The whole student-athlete experience has been amazing.”

“At MHC, instead of it being a competitive environment, professors and students really work together in class for everyone to learn and to do their best.”

Mount Holyoke’s event Crafting a Life in the Arts shows students that the COVID-19 pandemic shouldn’t deter a sustaining life in the arts.

Susana M. Morris is the author of “Close Kin and Distant Relatives” and will speak at Mount Holyoke on February 10 on “Black Feminism is the Future.”

The Posse Foundation has entered its second decade in partnership with Mount Holyoke College.

Mount Holyoke’s first remote Semester in D.C. program also has the first Frances Perkins Scholar, first Posse Scholar and first 21st-Century Scholar.