Meet the 2021 Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients
Wellesley的最高荣誉是每年给予毕业生，他们通过他们的成就为自己和大学提供了荣幸。今年的收件人是Adelaide Hines Sanford，M.a. '50，Robin Chase'80和Farhana Khera'91。收件人将在10月28日星期四，与Paula A. Johnson总统参加虚拟对话。您可以在此注册. To read in-depth profiles of the recipients, visit theWellesley.杂志文章.
Adelaide Hines Sanford, M.A. ’50
阿德莱德Hines Sanford，M.a.'50是一个在教育领域的生活传奇。桑福德，现在在90年代，是一家学者，活动家，以及全国最重要的倡导者为非洲血统学生的教育。她在公共教育的50多年的职业生涯 - 从课堂老师到纽约州的委员会副校长- 提供她一个独特的Vantage点，从中查看和体验整个教育景观。Mark Winston Griffith, an education colleague in NYC, says, “Dr. Sanford was morethan a public school teacher and administrator.She was a revolutionary, disrupter, and iconoclast who, oxymoronically, worked within the system.” After retiring from the NYC school system, Sanford was unanimously elected as Member-At-Large of the Board of Regents of the State of New York, where she served in a variety of roles for two decades.她是非洲祖先人民教育委员会的创始人，促进教育改革，以支持黑人儿童的发展。桑福德表示，黑人儿童知道他们的历史是必不可少的。“从一开始就没有教育黑人儿童他们的历史，”已经开始努力。““孩子有权知道他们是谁以及他们来自哪里。”
罗宾追逐'80
Transportation entrepreneur Robin Chase ’80, the co-founder of Zipcar, the car-sharing network, remains laser-focused on reimagining global transportation to curb climate change and make mobility more equitable. Chase launched Zipcar in Cambridge, Mass., as an alternative to the expense and hassle of owning a car in a city. Her goal was to make access to cars as simple as getting cash from an ATM. Since then, Zipcar has expanded to more than 500 cities and towns around the globe serving more than 1 million members. After leaving Zipcar, Chase founded several transportation and mobility-related companies and nonprofits. She advises governments around the world on transportation and climate initiatives and has served on multiple boards. She was recognized as one of the快速公司Fast 50 Innovators and时间’s100 Most Influential People. “Transportation is the invisible glue for every single other thing that’s good in your life,” Chase says. “So, education, health, jobs, friends, recreation—they’re all made possible by transportation. It’s also the single largest contributor to CO2 emissions.” These days, she’s excited about the rise of electric micro-mobility via vehicles like electric bikes and scooters. “These are game-changing,” she says, because of their potential to give mobility to the some 50% of people worldwide who don’t have easy access to a car.
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Farhana Khera ’91
Farhana Khera ’91 is passionate about making sure that American Muslims have a seat at the table. Her leadership goes back to her Wellesley days—she served as College Government president, and with her older sister, Samira Khera ’90, she co-founded Al-Muslimat, a faith group for Muslim students. On 9/11, Khera had just started as counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Khera, who had helped organize the first-ever congressional hearing on racial profiling, quickly realized that the Muslim community needed a more powerful voice. In 2005, she took the leap to co-found and lead Muslim Advocates, a national legal advocacy and educational organization. While working on civil rights cases, Khera also made national TV appearances, testified at and supported five congressional hearings on American Muslim civil rights issues, facilitated a meeting between President Obama and Muslim leaders, and spoke with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about removing anti-Muslim hate speech from the website. Having stepped down from Muslim Advocates in July, Khera plans to continue to champion the causes she holds most dear. “Today, we see a real threat from those who do not believe in an inclusive, pluralistic America and one in which all are truly entitled to equal rights under the law,” she says.
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