Congratulations, Wellesley College Class of 2025!
Wellesley celebrated the green class of 2025 along with their families and friends at Wellesley’s 147th commencement exercises on Friday, May 16, 2025. Commencement speaker Isabel Wilkerson—Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author—urged the class to “transcend humanity’s current upheavals.”
Speeches
-
Nehal Farghaly ’25
“We entered as students and left as something far greater—siblings,” observed senior speaker Nehal Farghaly.
-
Isabel Wilkerson
“Sometimes you can’t see history when you’re making it,” said Ms. Wilkerson to the assembled graduates.
-
President Johnson
“Find what you value—and stay true to those values,” President Paula A. Johnson shared in her address.
Photo Highlights
Sooahn Lee, president of the class of 2025, introduced the student speaker.
Wellesley honored retiring faculty, including Ellen Widmer, Paul Wink, and Margaret Keane. (Not pictured: Kristin Butcher, Angela C. Carpenter, and William A. Joseph.)
Rachel Deyette-Werkema, lecturer in economics, John Goss, associate professor of biological sciences, and Flavia Laviosa, senior lecturer in Italian studies, were awarded the Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Ceremony recording
Watch the recording of the livestream. An edited version will be available next week.
Commencement program
Future commencement dates
Class of 2020: During the fifth year reunion May 23-25, 2025
Class of 2026: Friday, May 15, 2026
Press contacts
106 Central St.
Wellesley, MA 02481
Commencement team
106 Central St.
Wellesley, MA 02481