Search News

Amber tells us how Simmons prepared her to be resident clinician of Boston's STARR Program. What does your job entail? I'm a residential clinician for the Boston Regional STARR (Stabilization, Assessment, and Rapid Reintegration) Program, a 45-day mental and behavioral...

• Social Sciences, Policy, and Practice
• Social Justice & Advocacy
• Internships & Careers

Deborah Z Porter, founder and executive director of the Boston Book Festival, on throwing pots and how she became a book person. What would you title your autobiography? Out of Cleveland. When you were a child, what did you want...

• Media, Arts, and Humanities

We asked Sherry about her research into the gender gap in computer science education. Dix scholar, Sherry Seibel '18 is researching how the motivations of women who attend coding bootcamps differ from the motivations of women who attend undergraduate computer...

• Adult Student (Dix Scholar)
• Research

The flexibility of the gender and cultural studies program broadened the scope of Meredith's scholarly work. Tell us about your current work. I am the Director of Writing and Rhetoric at Bowdoin College. I work with faculty and students across...

• Internships & Careers
• Media, Arts, and Humanities

We caught up with Taylor about her business, Opt for Epic, and her plans to travel the world. On choosing Simmons I fell in love with Simmons the moment I stepped foot on campus. At the time I didn’t know...

• Internships & Careers
• Media, Arts, and Humanities

Credited for making the library cool again, Jennifer tells us what it was like to win this $25,000 award. On pursuing library science I've wanted to be a librarian ever since I was a kid. I used to draw check...

• Internships & Careers

Erica tells us how she turned her passion for witchcraft and feminism into HausWitch Home + Healing. Erica Feldmann ‘12MA is many things: an entrepreneur, a historian, a radical feminist — and a witch. Although the witch figure has been...

• Entrepreneurship
• Internships & Careers
• Media, Arts, and Humanities

Kelley Chunn '90MS recently moderated the "BraveSpace: A Conversation on Diversity in Media & Communications" panel. Here's a glimpse into her discussion about how to incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion into the hiring process and beyond. Key questions to consider...

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Media, Arts, and Humanities

We caught up with Jenn about how she became a career strategist and founded Work Wonders Careers. Tell us about your background. Like many people, I fell into hiring and recruiting by accident. It started out as a job to...

• Internships & Careers
• Social Sciences, Policy, and Practice

Araceli Hintermeister ’16MA/MS on her role as a Research Assistant at America’s Test Kitchen. Araceli Hintermeister ’16MA/MS combined her studies and her fandom of America’s Test Kitchen when she became a Library Intern during her time at the School of...

• Internships & Careers