Alumni
A Path Appears
Click here for an original poem by the radiant Eunice, a 5th grade student at the Kibera School for Girls who is profiled in A Path Appears.
Where Does it Hurt? An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Fixing Healthcare (lunch and talk on 5/6 with Jonathan Bush ’93, CEO of athenahealth)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship and the Wesleyan Career Center present Where Does it Hurt? An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Fixing Health CareA lunch and talk with Jonathan Bush ’93 Wednesday, May 612-1 p.m.Olson Commons, Wesleyan Career Center, 41 Wyllys Avenue CSS major Jonathan Bush has seen the health care industry from all angles, first…
Post-Wes Journeys: Spring 2015
Community Advisors Jenna Starr, Nikki Dodd, Marjahn Finlayson and Talia Bauerer are bringing five remarkable alumni to campus on Thursday, April 23 for another career panel discussion! Come hear from the following panelists about their career paths, experiences in graduate or professional school, and lessons learned about life after Wes: Melissa McCaw ’01, Budget Director…
How to Write a Winning Business Plan and Do a Stellar Presentation (lunch and lecture by Rebecca Knight ’98, 4/20)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship presents HOW TO WRITE A WINNING BUSINESS PLAN & DO A STELLAR PRESENTATION A workshop and lunch with Rebecca Knight ’98, Freelance journalist, 2015 Kim-Frank Family University Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan, and Harvard Business Review columnist Monday, April 2012-1 p.m.Usdan 108 Lunch will be provided. Please register here. Whether you are seeking funding…
Lessons from a Life in Sex and Ministry (lunch, talk, and Q&A with Debra W. Haffner ’76, 4/22)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship presents LESSONS FROM A LIFE IN SEX AND MINISTRY A Talk, Lunch, and Q&A with Debra W. Haffner ’76 Wednesday, April 22 12-1 p.m. Usdan 108 Lunch will be provided. Please register here . As an undergraduate at Wesleyan, Debra Haffner was a vocal activist for social justice and co-founder of…
We Almost Lost Detroit: a Hopeful Tale About Cars, Crises, Cities, and America
Ron Bloom ’77 – Obama’s “Auto Czar” and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World – will come to campus on Wednesday, April 8 to discuss lessons learned in his career in politics and finance, particularly in the auto industry bailout and in addressing the City of Detroit’s bankruptcy. After graduating from Wesleyan with…
WESU and the Argus Present: Julie Burstein ’80
Julie Burstein ’80, creator of WNYC’s Studio 360, best-selling author, and TED speaker, will be giving a talk on the power of listening at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 8 in the CFA Hall. She will discuss how her experience as a DJ at WESU sparked her passion for finding and telling stories, and will reveal the questions…
Creating Equity in Housing
In the final event hosted by Kai Entrepreneurship Wesleyan this semester, Erin Boggs ’93 will visit campus to speak about her work with the Open Communities Alliance, a Connecticut-based civil rights organization. She also discuss how gentrification and the segregation of neighborhoods creates unequal opportunities in terms of education, health care, and job prospects, and how we as…
Wesleyan Trustee issues challenge for JooMah’s Indiegogo campaign (Wednesday 4/1 only)
Muzzy Rosenblatt ’87 — CEO of Bowery Residents Committee, member of the Wesleyan Board of Trustees, and a founding member of the PCSE Advisory Board — wrote with this offer. Please make a gift to the JooMah campaign on Wednesday, April 1, and maximize Muzzy’s challenge! Where passion for change meets practical idealism you find Wesleyan alum who…