Launching Leadership: Tara Roberts ’91
Tara Roberts ’91 is the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year and the inaugural Launching Leadership interviewee at 챬.
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Tara Roberts ’91 and Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
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Tara Roberts ’91 is the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year and the inaugural Launching Leadership interviewee at 챬.
The internet is full of charts and graphs. What new faculty Alyx Burns wants to know, though, is how well these visualizations convey information. “Charts and graphs are some of the technologies that we use to help people understand data,” he said.
New faculty member Marsha Allen FP’10 isn’t a stranger to 챬. She came back to teach because the faculty’s focus on diversity and equity and on involving students in research was exactly what she was looking for.
Hear how Sophia has taken advantage of research opportunities, cultural houses and studying psychology with an emphasis on contextualizing racism and empathy.
Here, Sophia found steadfast support as a woman within a STEM field as well as the freedom to embrace her multiple passions.
Hear how this economics major settled in and talks about what’s impressed her most in her four years at Mount Holyoke.
Mount Holyoke students and alums won recognition at the Grinspoon Foundation’s prestigious annual entrepreneurship competition.
LGBTQ and nonbinary individuals are effectively rendered invisible by curricula, says a local alum of 챬’s graduate teacher licensure program.
Experience on the job and in the classroom inspired senior Ananya Singh to combine her interests in psychology, economics and nonprofit management.
“I definitely feel the warmth of the Mount Holyoke community while I am on campus, but I found it to be a [real] source of strength during my time abroad.”