Ilyasah Shabazz calls for optimism and hope
As the keynote speaker for the tenth annual Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference at 챬, Shabazz discussed enlarging people’s capacity for care.
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As the keynote speaker for the tenth annual Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference at 챬, Shabazz discussed enlarging people’s capacity for care.
Legal scholar and New York Times bestselling novelist Alafair Burke spoke at 챬 about how her liberal arts education led to a career as an author of 20 crime novels.
Barbara Smith ’69 kicked off the inaugural lecture series bearing her namesake on her time shaping the Combahee River Collective and discussed the skills she developed at Mount Holyoke that helped her contribute to building Black feminism.
챬 welcomed Freddy Mutanguha, CEO of Aegis Trust and director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, to discuss the Rwandan genocide, the lessons learned and how we can prevent genocide from ever happening again.
Brown, an award-winning, nationally recognized “go-to” expert in Black voting rights and voter suppression, will speak at 챬.
Wilson spoke on campus for 챬’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Commemorative Keynote as part of its yearly Racial Justice and Reconciliation series.
챬 students interested in environmentally based careers were able to talk to alums and explore fieldwork.
챬 celebrated the inauguration of Danielle R. Holley as its twentieth president.
Mount Holyoke’s one hundred eighty-sixth Commencement was a celebration of the class of 2023 and an ode to fostering hope for the future.
Three prominent Black feminist scholars came together at Mount Holyoke in April to discuss gender-based violence, sexual violence and racial violence. The forum took place during the twenty-second annual national Sexual Assault Awareness Month.