Wheaton College Massachusetts

Come Frunch with Us
2023-12-08 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Emerson Dining Hall – President’s Dining Room, Norton, 02766, United States
Come on Come All!
When: Fridays
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Who: Anyone wanting to practice their French is welcome
Where: Emerson Dining Hall (look for the French flag!)
Please contact Alexandra Place at place_alexandra@wheatoncolleg.edu with questions or comments

Film Screening: Navalny
2024-02-20 18:00 | Watson Fine Arts – 102, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us for this screening of Navalny which follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

An Evening with Artist Finnegan Shannon
2024-02-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Finnegan Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist whose work experiments with access and ableist assumptions. At Wheaton this semester, they will explore Alt text as poetry in an ongoing collaborative project with students. After the artist’s talk, Beard and Weil Galleries will be open for students to talk to Finnegan and hear more about joining the project.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

AI in our world: chatGPT and more...
2024-02-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
Please join us for a presentation on AI in our world: chatGPT and more… with Mark D. LeBlanc, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor, Computer Science. He will be discussing different chatbots, “stages” of AI and machine learning.
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Faculty Research Talk
2024-03-05 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Sarah Christensen, Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow, History Department, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Marriage as a Path to Freedom for Enslaved Women in the Early Middle Ages.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
Description: I examine how enslaved women in the early Middle Ages approached marriage and childbearing as means to secure emancipation. According to a long legal tradition dating to the Roman classical period and lingering in the law codes of both medieval western Europe and Byzantium, marriage offered enslaved women a change in social position as well as a specific transformation of legal status from unfree to free. Looking at legal documents and narrative sources, I examine how individual women strategically leveraged marriage and childbearing to achieve desires that included but were not limited to emancipation, and how these women calculated possibilities for improvement using knowledge of their legal status, social standing, and sexual value.
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Nursing Program Open House
2024-03-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Please join us to learn more about Wheaton’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

Take a tour of our state-of-the-art high fidelity simulation and skills center
Meet our faculty and staff
Learn about career opporunities as Nursing Faculty or Adjunct Clinical Instructors
Enjoy some refreshments and appetizers.

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Face-to-Face with Life without Parole
2024-03-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Delve into the past and present reality without parole in the U.S., drawing on the work of The Visiting Room Project and its first-person testimonials.
The panelists are: Marcus Kondkar, chair of the Sociology Department at Loyola University New Orleans and lead creator of the Visiting Room Project. Alvin Catchings, a Visiting Room Ambassador who served 32 years at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Terrence Guy, a Visiting Room Ambassador who served 28 years at Angola Prison.
The Visiting Room Project is a digital experience that invites the public to sit face-to-face with people serving life without the possibility of parole to hear them tell their stories, in their own words.
This event is part of the speaker series of the Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice and Criminology Program at Wheaton College. It is co-sponsored by the Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, and Film and New Media Studies departments; Wheaton College Speaker Fund/SGA Finance Committee, Office for Institutional Equity and Belonging, the Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning, Center for Social Justice and Community Impact, and Peace and Justice Studies.

Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-04 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Alessandra Ward, Asst. Professor of Education, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Want your child to be a strong reader? Prioritize social-emotional learning.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
The topics of elementary reading education and social-emotional learning (SEL) frequently appear in current news headlines, often as a subject of debate. However, many (if not all!) teachers and families would agree that we want our children to be confident, capable readers and writers, and that we also want them to be able to participate in classroom and community life, get along with their peers, develop their talents, and learn to make responsible decisions. This talk will lay out the theoretical and empirical support behind how teaching SEL in school can positively support children’s literacy development, and vice versa. Practical suggestions will be given for how teachers and families of elementary-aged children can leverage synergies between SEL and literacy; for example, criteria for selecting read-aloud picture books that can address goals in both content areas.
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Free MTEL Prep Sessions
2024-04-04 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-04-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Meneely – 103
The Education Department is providing free prep sessions for the Communication & Literacy MTEL from 5-7 PM on Thursday, April 4 & Monday, April 8. This exam is required to earn your teaching license.
Location: Meneely 103
The Thursday session will be on the Reading subtest and the Monday session will be on the Writing subtest.
The instructor will focus on reviewing your questions about the practice tests (click links below). In order to be prepared and benefit from the sessions, it is important to complete and bring a copy (or have electronic access) of the Reading practice test (Thursday) or the Writing test (Monday).
Reading Subtest
https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/Content/Docs/MA_FLD101_Reading_PRACTICE_TEST_V2.pdf
Writing Subtest
https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/Content/Docs/MA_FLD201_Writing_PRACTICE_TEST_V2.pdf

Science Writing for the Public Good: Let’s Have Fun with Math & Get Serious About AI
2024-04-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The 2024 Norman W. Johnson Lecture will be delivered by award-winning science writer and mathematician Susan D’Agostino. This talk will range from the delightful fact that penguins use mathematics to huddle in Antarctica’s subzero temperatures to the dangers of unbridled technology optimism.
D’Agostino is a Spencer Education Journalism Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she is working on a book about AI in higher education. She the author of How To Free Your Inner Mathematician (Oxford University Press, 2020), which received the Mathematical Association of America’s Euler Book Prize for an exceptionally well written book with a positive impact on the public’s view of math. She is the technology correspondent at Inside Higher Ed. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Scientific American, Wired, Quanta, BBC, Nature, National Public Radio, Financial Times, and other outlets.
Her writing has been recognized with fellowships from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, National Association of Science Writers, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, and Mila–Quebec AI Institute. She earned a Ph.D. in math from Dartmouth College, an MA in science writing from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in anthropology from Bard College.

Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-10 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Professor of Religion, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Cuisine and Cultural Appropriation: The Case of Palestinian and Israeli Food Tourism.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
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Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-15 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Andrew Davinack, Asst. Professor of Biology, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Invisible Invaders: The Impact of Non-Indigenous Parasites on Global Shellfish Aquaculture.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
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The World of Design—16th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Doug Scott
2024-04-17 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us as we explore the wide wide world of graphic design and its relationship to other design disciplines.
Doug Scott’s design work has won awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society of Typographic Arts, Boston Hatch Awards, New York Art Directors Club, Boston Art Directors Club, Broadcast Designers Association and Bookbuilders of Boston. He has been a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts since 1974 and served on its national board of directors from 1989–1992. He currently runs a design practice doing book and identity design, and is consulting Art Director of Davis Publications, an art education publisher in Worcester, Massachusetts. Scott teaches graphic design, exhibition design, typography and graphic design history at the RISD and teaches graphic design and design history at the Yale School of Art. He has also taught at UMASS/Dartmouth, Northeastern, RIC and Connecticut College.

2024 Visual Art and Design Majors' Senior Exhibition Opening Reception
2024-04-18 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This annual exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s 21 graduating visual art and design majors. It features animation, painting, sculpture, app design, architecture, apparel design, photography, drawing, and textiles.

Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-23 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Ada McKenzie Thomas, Asst. Professor of English, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Abbey Lincoln’s Spiritual Roots.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
Description: In this talk, I examine Abbey Lincoln’s rootedness in spirituality as evinced in her poetry and songwriting from the latter part of her career. Her albums, Talking to the Sun (1983), Devil’s Got Your Tongue (1992), Wholly Earth (1999), as well as poems from her unpublished collection, In a Circle, Everything is Up, reveal her lifelong identity as a fervent roots-seeker, a spiritual sojourner in search of truth and understanding.
A multifaceted artist whose career traversed the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements, and intersected with Black feminisms and Pan-Africanist discourses, Lincoln’s concerns frequently echo those of other writers and artists of the various eras through which she lived. Lincoln’s thematic eclecticism is a hallmark of her songwriting, poetry, and prose, however her work remains rooted in a deeply personal and spiritual exploration. This talk explores the motifs of this spiritual sojourn emerging from Lincoln’s latter works, as based upon the archival research that I have conducted for my manuscript on Lincoln’s life in letters, Aminata: Abbey Lincoln’s Song of Faith, to be published by Rutgers University Press.
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Career Networking Speaker Series: Brian Smiley
2024-04-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Balfour-Hood – Media Center, Norton, 02766, United States
Interested in Apple? Come meet a former Vice President of Marketing who shares the inside scoop of product development and strategy.
Come by and learn about what it takes to work, build relationships and design at a multinational company, while also getting some personal stories and insight.
For any additional questions or accessibility concerns, contact myself, Anya O’Brien or Noe Garcia Bravo at @Noe Garcia-Bravo / @Anya O’Brien

Entrepreneurship Summit
2024-04-24 09:30 - 13:00 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us at Wheaton’s First Annual Entrepreneurship Summit, which will be held on Wednesday, April 24, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Discovery Center.
This is a dynamic, free, and open-to-everyone summit that aims to foster student entrepreneurship, collaboration, and skills development.
Register here.
Agenda:
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. | Location: Discovery Center Lobby
Registration & Breakfast

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Location: Hindle Auditorium
Opening Remarks:
Dr. Leanna Lawter, Chair of Business Department
Welcoming Remarks:
Dr. Michaele Whelan, President of Wheaton College
Keynote Address:
Karina Holyoak Wood, Founding Executive Director of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Rhode Island program

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Location: Hindle Auditorium
Breakout Session 1: Art, Design, and Sustainable Social Impact Enterprises
Speakers:

Tania Schlatter, Professor of Practice in Design at Wheaton College
Social Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG) Team, A non-profit organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs with a focus on social impact through our programs and services
The Nest Team, A Sustainable fashion collective on a mission to end the toxic cycle of overconsumption and textile waste (Representative Charlotte von Meister, Co-founder)

11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Location: Filene Center
Breakout Session 2: Rethinking Healthcare Entrepreneurship & Biochemistry in a New World
Speakers:

Elisabeth Borno, Army Veteran, Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, and Co-founder of Born-O Uniforms
Dr. Joke Alesh, Dentist, Professor, and Owner of Marigold Dental Studio
Dr. Ida Pavlichenko, CEO, Scientist, Inventor, and Co-founder of PionEar Technologies

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Location Hindle Auditorium
Breakout Session 3: Accounting, Finance, Technology, & Resources for Startups
Speakers:

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program Team, a Goldman Sach’s national investment in the growth of small businesses initiative
Ben Holstein, Veteran Startup & Fintech Leader
Kristina Piasecki, Professor of the Practice of Business at Wheaton College & Licensed CPA
Narine Emdjian, Federal Funding Expert, Director of Grants at SEG, and Founder of IFUND Lab

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Location: Filene Center
Breakout Session 4: Business Law, Education, Community Development & Resources
Speakers:

Attorney Sean Fontes, Attorney at Partridge Snow and Hahn, LLP
Mary Steele, Town of Norton Representative & Entrepreneur
Monique Fuchs, Ph.D, Strategic Advisor, Executive Coach and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at MITDESIGNX
Juliana Badaro Langille, President and CEO of The International Community Empowerment Center

1:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Location: Faculty Dining Room in Emerson Dining Hall
Lunch Reception and Networking
Sponsored by Diana Davis Spencer ’60 and John and Kendra Malloy P’22

Honors Convocation
2024-05-02 17:00 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Please join President Whelan, Interim Provost Karen McCormack, and Dean of Students Darnell Parker at Honors Convocation on Thursday, May 2 at 5:00 p.m. in Cole Memorial Chapel.
Honors Convocation is an annual celebration to acknowledge excellence in academic and intellectual pursuits. We are pleased to announce that Jani Benoit, Professor of Chemistry, will deliver the keynote address, “Sustainability: Diverse Wisdom for a Common Goal.”
Departmental and College awards will be presented to students who have distinguished themselves as scholars and academic citizens of Wheaton College. Rachel Hickey, Class of ’24 Chair, will present the Faculty Appreciation Award and Interim Provost Karen McCormack will announce the recipient of this year’s endowed honorary chairs, the Frances A. Shirley Endowed Professorship and the Hannah Goldberg Chair in Teaching Innovation.
The lineup for the procession begins promptly at 4:45 p.m. College Marshals Stephanie Daniels and Russell Williams will line up the Faculty (in regalia) in front of Knapton Hall and Seniors (in robes) in front of the Chapel. (Inclement weather: Faculty will line up in the lower level of the Chapel and Seniors will line up in Balfour-Hood). A campus BBQ will be held on the Dimple immediately following the ceremony (rain location is Emerson Dining Hall).
Honors Convocation is open to the public but seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. The recording of the ceremony and the official program will be available online shortly after the event.
Please direct any questions to the Office of the Provost at provost@wheatoncollege.edu. We hope you can join us for this special academic tradition!
Learn more about Honors Convocation

Orientation
2024-06-28 08:30 - 16:00 | All Campus, 26 E. Main St., Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Start your Wheaton journey this summer
Academic Orientation – Mentored Academic Pathway (MAP) is a one-day comprehensive program that serves as a fun and engaging start to your Wheaton journey. Choose the date that best fits your schedule. Sessions will delve into content about academics, social life, and what to expect as the fall semester begins. In addition, your Peer Advisor will be available for questions, and you’ll get to know some of your new classmates.
Family Orientation takes place the same day as your Academic Orientation – MAP. During Orientation, you will work with advisors to map out your academic schedule and connect with other new students while your family and friends will meet with Wheaton community members across campus to learn how they can support you throughout your college experience.
You may register for both events on the same form. To begin, choose your date. If you can’t make any of the dates, let us know.
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Norman W. Johnson Lecture
2024-10-01 17:00 - 18:30 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Data Visualization in the News will be the topic of the 2024 Norman W. Johnson Lecture delivered by Amanda Cox. She will discuss how news organizations use data to communicate scale, context and patterns to large audiences.
Amanda Cox is the executive editor for data journalism at Bloomberg News. She spent most of her career at the New York Times, where she made graphics for a decade and edited The Upshot for another six years. She has a masters degree in statistics from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College. Her Wikipedia page says that she is the Michael Phelps of infographics. She has no idea what this means.

Experiential Learning Showcase
2024-10-04 12:30 - 14:30 | Filene Center, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Explore innovative work from a wide range of fields and disciplines, engage with current Wheaton students, and see firsthand how experiential learning is shaping the next generation of young professionals.

Gallery Opening Reception : Shelter
2024-11-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Shelter is vital. It’s required for us to survive but also to thrive. Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Shelter interrogates the spaces in which we live, play, work, and worship, the objects found in such spaces, and the concept of “shelter”, broadly defined.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 1:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m., Thursdays 1:00 p.m.—8:00 p.m. Please note: the galleries will be closed November 27—December 1 for November break and December 11, 2022–January 21, 2025 for winter break.

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Giving Tuesday 2024
2024-12-03
Join us this Giving Tuesday and make a gift that resonates far beyond today.
Your gift to Wheaton College can create infinite possibilities for our students and the community. Each donation, no matter the size, can transform lives—fueling innovation, supporting scholarships, enhancing campus resources, and expanding access to a world-class education. Ready to create infinite impact today?
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How to Watch Weird Horror with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
2025-03-06 17:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
For many scholars and journalists, cinema seems to be in its death throes, especially in terms of theatrical viewing. Yet horror movies top the box office, with studios like A24, Blumhouse, and Neon churning out a constant stream of terror amid excitement around so-called “elevated horror.” How can we explain this seeming contradiction? Please join us for a talk with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Associate Professor, English and Film Studies, who will take listeners on a brief tour of the history of weird and eco horror film and touch on some of its most salient characteristics in order to theorize what it means to watch horror in the theater versus streaming and why we want to watch it today.

Reading by Donna Stonecipher
2025-04-02 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The poet, Donna Stonecipher, is a translator, living in Berlin. She is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Ruins of Nostalgia. This particular book is a series of prose poems remarking on her different nostalgic views on Seattle, her hometown. And juxtaposing that to what nostalgia might mean to Berlin. Germany has a complicated history. And Berlin, in particular, where rebuilding has to account for its very recent history as a divided city.

Entrepreneurship Summit 2025
2025-04-16 09:30 - 14:30 | Diana Davis Spencer Discovery Center, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us at Wheaton’s Second Annual Entrepreneurship Summit, which will be held on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Discovery Center.
This is a dynamic, free, and open-to-everyone summit that aims to foster student entrepreneurship, collaboration, and skills development.
The Summit will include the following sessions and industries:

Art, Music, Media, Tourism & Social Impact Enterprises
Rethinking Healthcare, Biosciences & Engineering
Finance, Accounting, Computer Science & AI Technologies
Law, Real Estate, Education, Business & Community Development

Agenda:
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Registration & Breakfast
10:30 – 11:20 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks, Live Music & Keynote Speaker Address
Keynote speaker: Chief of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion for the City of Boston, Segun Idowu
11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Session I: Art, Music, Media, Tourism & Social Impact Enterprises + Entertainment (Hindle Auditorium)
Session II: Healthcare, Biosciences & Engineering (Filene Center)
12:30 a.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Session III: Finance, Accounting, Computer Science & AI Technologies (Hindle Auditorium)
Session IV: Law, Real Estate, Education & Community Development (Filene Center)
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch Bites & Networking (Hindle Auditorium Lobby)

Opening Reception: ephemera: Senior Art Exhibition
2025-04-17 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
ephemera: Senior Art Exhibition 2025
April 17–May 17, 2025
Opening Reception Thursday, April 17 5–8pm
ephemera highlights the work of our graduating visual art majors: Quinn Antle, Isabel Cahill, Morgan Calverley, Nat Coughlin, Willow Covendecker, Avery Forman-Walsh, Lia Gatta, Rachel Pool, Philip Pope, Emily Redler, Rebekah Roth, Armani Santana, Nicholas Santana, and Jack Wehrle. The exhibition features painting, sculpture, printmaking, work on paper, textiles, photography, drawing, and a graphic novel. The exhibition runs April 17–May 17, 2024 (hours may vary May 10–17).
More information at bwgalleries.org

Opening Reception for Senior Design Capstone Posters 2025
2025-04-17 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Haas Concourse & Lobby, Norton, 02766, United States
Exhibit dates: April 17–May 17, 2025
The design capstone is a chance for senior design majors to apply their knowledge and skills to a topic and situation of their choice.
Posters show and explain what students investigated and why, steps they took to add depth to their understanding and how they responded with design concepts through sketches, diagrams, prototypes and mockups.
Design Capstone 2025 will feature work by: Alicia Chang, Sofia Collina, Lucia Flaumenhaft, Louise Groover, Colton LaBrecque, Bobbie Lester, Reka Moscarelli, Taly Nudelman, Rebekah Roth, Jill Ryan, Reese Staples, Hailey Tice, Alison Tremblay, Ahaan Verma, Samzok Wangdi and Pear Wongwatanawisut.

2025 Senior Creative Writing Majors' Reading
2025-04-22 17:00 - 18:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Seniors graduating with a degree in Creative Writing and Literature showcase original works of poetry, fiction and dramatic writing. The 2025 Senior Creative Writing Majors’ Reading features readings by: Quinn Antle, Sam Ferland, Emma Keamy, Gaby Reiser, Julia Thompson, Anson Wang, Emily Zielinski.
