A decade of BOOM!
The Building On Our Momentum (BOOM!) Learning Symposium at Mount Holyoke College celebrated its tenth anniversary this year.
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The Building On Our Momentum (BOOM!) Learning Symposium at Mount Holyoke College celebrated its tenth anniversary this year.
Tiko Dolidze ’26, a senior at Mount Holyoke College, and Mariam Beshidze ’27, a junior at Amherst College, have been awarded a Projects for Peace grant for their initiative that will collect oral histories from Georgian student protestors.
Mount Holyoke College student Gabriella Aviles ’27 attended the most recent Careers in Public Service event with the Weissman Center for Leadership and discovered bold new pathways for postgraduate careers.
Mount Holyoke College student Oluwafadeyemi Testimony Akinkuolie-Ibidapo ’27 is an awardee of this year’s Project for Peace grants from Middlebury College. She will launch a year-round food pantry in her hometown.
Reva Babbar ’28, a sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, reflects on what it takes to go from attending the annual BOOM! Learning Symposium to help plan and facilitate the symposium as a BOOM! program lead.
Sophomore Destiny Pond ’28 was one of the organizers of this year’s Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference at Mount Holyoke; its theme was “When Wisdom Speaks.”
Mount Holyoke College Manager of Technology Support Services Aime DeGrenier has seen BOOM! reshape the College’s culture in meaningful and profound ways.
Noted author Curtis Chin takes a few moments before he visits Mount Holyoke College for BOOM! Community Day to discuss empathy, storytelling and his favorite line in his memoir.
Mount Holyoke College senior Myra Arif Zia ’26 took part in the Semester in D.C. program and learned key things about her career, her future plans and America at this moment in history.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette recently explored the new Climate Justice Lab initiative of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College.