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  1. Katherine Phelps ’13MA
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Digital Girlhoods and the Adult Response to Tweens Online

    Katherine A Phelps ’13MA has published her first book, Digital Girlhoods (Temple University Press, 2025), exploring the potential pitfalls and opportunities for tween girls engaging in social media.

  2. Kenyora Johnson ‘10, CEO of End Rape On Campus speaks in front of the Department of Education during a Title IX press rally, October 2021.
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Simmons Alumna Centers Survivorship

    Kenyora Lenair Johnson ’10, CEO of End Rape On Campus (EROC), is dedicated to elevating survivorship and centering marginalized populations. To honor Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we spoke with her about EROC’s bold initiatives, as well as Simmons’ intergenerational community.

  3. Dale Stinchcomb '16MS stands in front of the Morgan Library and Museum, where he serves as the Drue Heinz Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, photograph by Carmen González Fraile.
    Alumnae/i Feature

    SLIS Alumnus Co-Curates Major Jane Austen Exhibition

    In February 2024, Dale Stinchcomb ’16MS, became the Drue Heinz Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum. We spoke with him about this unique role, his forthcoming co-curated exhibition on Jane Austen, and the essential training that he received at Simmons.

  4. Boston Children's Hospital Main Entrance
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Alumna Delivers Trauma-Informed Care at Boston Children’s

    Rachel Nyakako is a clinical social worker in the Children’s Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC) at Boston Children’s Hospital. She serves as a link for patients and families in need of mental and behavioral healthcare and resources. Such support, she...

  5. Maria McCauley
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Cambridge Director of Libraries Fosters Learning and Community

    Maria McCauley ’17PhD says some of her fondest childhood memories are of visiting her local public library. This lifelong passion for knowledge is part of the reason she decided to pursue library and information science as a second career.

  6. A black and white illustration of Libby Lassiter
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Thriving in Simmons’ Online Degree Completion Program

    A flexible and student-centered environment were two reasons why Libby Lassiter ’24 chose Simmons’ online degree completion program, which helps adult learners achieve their goal of graduating from college. “It was a great experience,” Lassiter says. “If I had my...

  7. Grant Pike ’18MSW ’24DSW. Photo credit: Megan Afon Walker
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Integrating Forest Spirituality into a Social Work Mindset

    Grant Pike ’18MSW ’24DSW shares how the vitality of nature can be combined with social work and social justice, with a positive impact on humans and the planet.

  8. Esta Soler '68, '06HD, photograph by Dean J. Biriny.
    Alumnae/i Feature

    An Advocate for Women and Children

    Esta Soler ’68, ’06HD is the President of Futures Without Violence (FUTURES). Based in San Francisco, Boston, and Washington D.C., this nonprofit organization aims to prevent violence against women and families.

  9. An illustration of Gregory Maguire holding a quill pen with images from Wicked in the background
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Gregory Maguire ’78MA Defying Gravity

    Gregory Maguire '78MA, best-selling author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, reflects on his time as one of the first graduates of the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature program at Simmons, now celebrating its 50th anniversary.

  10. Dr. Dorothy (Boulding) Ferebee, Class of 1920, receives the first Alumnae/i Lifetime Achievement Award in 1959, photograph courtesy of Simmons University Archives.
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Harbinger of Health, Racial, and Gender Equity

    An early proponent of reproductive rights and a courageous advocate of racial, socioeconomic, and gender equity decades before the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements, Dr. Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee, Class of 1920, was a visionary leader ahead of her time.