After spending the summer of 2020 interning at Mosaic Minds Art Academy (MMAA) Rodriguez now feels like her dream of owning an art school is achievable. She was inspired by the joy and pride that teaching brings her mentor Summer King.

“I became interested in the Japanese language when I was twelve years old after finding and listening to Japanese music on the Internet. I really loved the music and wanted to learn more about the culture, the language, and the history.”

Jessica '18 is an English and chemistry double major on the pre-pharmaceutical track who is the first of her family to attend college. She is working towards a career in pharmaceuticals and feels that Wesleyan has truly prepared her for life after graduation.

In her recently published book, Grave Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed, Wesleyan College Assistant Professor and Chair of Religious Studies and Philosophy Karen Bray brings critical questions of embodiment, history, and power to the fields of political theology, radical theology, secular theology, and the continual philosophy of religion.

Professor Ferrari was presented the Earle R. Greene Memorial Award for achievement in ornithology and bird education from the Georgia Ornithological Society (GOS). He has served as President of GOS (2011-13) and is the current editor of the Oriole.

Nursing Program Director Fritz and nursing faculty annually take a group of senior nursing students to Jamaica for a week-long medical mission trip. The group visits and assists patients at hospitals and at children’s homes. Students describe the experience as “life changing.”

From freelance flower crown maker, to train conductor, to marketing director of her local hospital, Burns has lived many occupational lives since graduating from Wesleyan.

Betty serves as vice president of community alliances and consumer engagement for the global information and measurement company Nielsen. At Wesleyan she earned her degree as the college’s first self-designed major that included international business, political science, and modern languages. Betty earned her EMBA from Emory University.

Wesleyan’s self-designed major allows the flexibility to combine two or more separate disciplines into an integrated, coherent program of study that meets all of Wesleyan’s traditional academic rigor. Amber designed her own second major and graduated magna cum laude as a Spanish and a self-designed international business and marketing communication major.