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The Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College will be hosting the event from April 13-15, 2023. Speakers include Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Kat Cadungog and Tamar Toles O’Laughlin.

Mount Holyoke professor Preston Smith spoke to the Washington Post about the Great Migration, when millions of Black Americans left the sharecropping South for economic opportunity in the North.

Mount Holyoke alums Kira Banks ’00 and Charisse Pickron ’08 are researching race’s and racism’s impact on young children. During a recent visit to campus, they spoke about transformational faculty, stepping into who you are and being true to yourself.

Five Disability Services Fellows are helping facilitate conversations between students and administrators about issues facing Mount Holyoke’s disabled community.

Bestselling author Heather McGhee spoke with Interim President Beverly Daniel Tatum about her book “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” as part of Mount Holyoke College’s annual MLK Jr. Commemoration.

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.

For the first time in its history, Mount Holyoke College has been selected as a Beckman Scholars Program awardee by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The foundation chose the College after a rigorous application process.

In naming Kristie A. Ford, Ph.D., as Presidential Fellow for this academic year, Interim President Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum has selected an expert in diversity, equity and inclusion who will help advance the College’s commitment to Intergroup Dialogue and other initiatives.

Mount Holyoke’s Zowie Banteah Cultural Center has reopened in a new, accessible space so all can come and celebrate the culture and heritage of the Indigenous community.

Tara Roberts ’91 is the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year and the inaugural Launching Leadership interviewee at Mount Holyoke College.