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After graduating from Wellesley in 2011, I worked at the Davis Museum, where I worked on several exhibitions and catalogues.

If you could come back and take one class at Wellesley what would it be? Read literature you love and books that you hate, and be able to form and express your opinions cogently.

Wellesley fostered that type of community.

I work in publishing, at a literary agency in New York.

It helped me appreciate that one can think and read and write broadly outside of the education system.

This was a defining year in many respects, as the program allowed me to think broadly and boldly about the humanities, while also thriving in a collaborative and genial college environment.

My time working at the Art Library was crucial—I spent my summers there and really cannot thank that department enough for both employing me for much of my adult life, and for allowing me to interact and work with some formidable minds, people who became my mentors and friends and de facto therapists during dissertation meltdowns.

When the opportunity rose to join an agency after graduating from Cambridge, I was thrilled.

What other careers did you consider as a student? Some people do—most people say they do, but are too terrified of the unknown to admit it.