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Mfoniso Udofia ’06, author of the play “Sojourners” which opened October 31 at the Huntington, never intended to become a playwright. After struggling to gain traction as an actor, she “started writing in order to understand the world I was in.”

Josh Lambert, professor of Jewish studies, on how three generations after the Holocaust, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.

Catherine Sneed ’25 witnessed the Georgia dock collapse that killed 7. She heard a woman scream, “I can’t swim, help me!” Ms. Sneed held onto the woman until a life jacket appeared. On the ferry, Ms. Sneed offered up her navy blue Wellesley sweatshirt.

A Rottweiler was rescued from Lake Waban in Wellesley on Saturday morning after it got away from its owner, chased a group of geese into the water, and began having trouble swimming, police said. Two Wellesley College boats went into the water to rescue the dog, and eventually the dog was reunited with its family and was not injured, police said. “The geese managed to elude the Rottweiler without incident,” police said.

There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. “Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity” by political science professor Jennifer Chudy is a book about white people who feel that distress. For decades, political scientists have studied the effects of white racial prejudice, but Dr. Chudy shows that white racial sympathy for Black Americans’ suffering is also a potent force in modern American politics.

Wellesley College professor Rebecca Selden examines how various fishing communities can change their fishing habits in order to adapt to climate change.

Senior Lecturer Emerita of Psychology Linda Carli: “The Democratic Party’s choice of Harris as its presidential nominee, together with Harris’ effective debate performance against Trump, has electrified Democrats, inspired young women and elicited considerable unease among Republican politicians. Yet, the wild card in this election is Harris’ gender, which affects voting above and beyond the policies favored by the candidates.”

“If we want our economy to grow and thrive, then you have to have childcare," says Wellesley Centers for Women senior research scientist Wendy Wagner Robeson.

Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson, author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, was on the podcast “You’re Wrong About” discussing American history through the lens of revolutions, change, and joy not from a few white men, but from generations of Black women.