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���챬�� student Maxine Ahenkora ’27 reflects on organizing this year’s BOOM! Learning Symposium.

Devon Santos, head of business intelligence at LITS, looks back over her memories of the annual BOOM! Learning Symposium at ���챬�� and how the program has helped her grow.

���챬�� President Danielle R. Holley spoke to “MSNBC Prime” about why she believes attacks on higher education are attacks against the fundamentals of our democracy.

Cindie Huerta-Velazquez ’25 connects food and community at Mount Holyoke: “We all have different friend groups, but once a week we come together to talk about anything and everything. We intentionally make that time and effort to be together.”

���챬�� Vice President for College Relations Kassandra Jolley makes an impassioned plea for alums of women’s colleges.

���챬�� student Alexandra Mihailopol ’26 has been selected by Middlebury College as a recipient of a Projects for Peace grant. She will offer financial literacy education to women in rural Romania via her EmpowHER project.

Mount Holyoke senior Qiao Se Ong ’25 is among the 2025 cohort for Projects for Peace. Her project, based in Colombia, aims to address the impact of dam construction on local communities through creative workshops and collaborations with local artists.

���챬�� student Oluwafadeyemi Testimony Akinkuolie-Ibidapo ’27 went from volunteering at last year’s Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference to becoming one of this year’s organizers.

���챬�� President Danielle R. Holley spoke to “Here and Now” on NPR about the growing tensions between higher education and the federal government.

Actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, producer and director John Cameron Mitchell will be at ���챬�� on Monday, March 10, 2025, for a screening and discussion of his 2001 film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”