Your Mount Holyoke experience doesn’t end at graduation. You’re part of a powerful global community that opens doors, creates opportunities and makes a difference in the world. Whether you’re advancing your career, connecting with fellow alums, sharing your expertise, or investing in the next generation of Mount Holyoke students, there are many ways to stay engaged and make an impact.
Make a difference today and help shape Mount Holyoke’s future. Every gift supports the people, programs and opportunities that make a Mount Holyoke education extraordinary.
Your Mount Holyoke network is a lifelong resource. Explore career opportunities, build professional connections and engage with alums around the world through The Gates.
Share your time, talents and expertise. Support students, connect with fellow alums, and strengthen the Mount Holyoke community.
Mount Holyoke was founded on the conviction that education has the power to change the world. Nearly 200 years later, we remain committed to challenging convention, advancing knowledge, and preparing students to lead with courage and purpose. At a time when higher education faces new challenges, our mission matters more than ever. Together, we can ensure that Mount Holyoke continues to educate generations of bold thinkers and changemakers.
Your Mount Holyoke network is one of your most valuable lifelong resources. Connect with alums across industries and generations, explore job and internship opportunities, exchange career advice and build professional relationships through The Gates.
Established in 1973, the travel program offers opportunities for alums to continue their lifelong journey of learning in the company of alums. In 50 years, more than 1,500 alums have traveled with us around the world and in the United States. Join us!
Each May, alums return to campus to celebrate each other and all things Mount Holyoke. From the Laurel Parade to back-to-class, there's no shortage of the uniquely Mount Holyoke blend of tradition and fun at Reunion. Start planning your trip now!
Meredith Nelson ’11 started this annual tradition in the fall of 2011. Alums around the world take time out from their busy lives to meet up and celebrate fall and Mount Holyoke with each other in local ice cream shops.
A popular and well-loved annual December concert featuring musical performances from a variety of religious traditions that alternates between Boston and New York City and is hosted by the local Mount Holyoke clubs with support from the Alum Association.
The Alum Association and the Office of Development host graduates from the senior class, toast their accomplishments and welcome them into the worldwide alum community.
Established by the Class of 1961 in 2011 to welcome new graduates into the worldwide community of MHC alums. During reunion alums celebrating their 50th reunion bestow members of the graduating class with a silk scarf in their class color.
Since 2014, the Alum Symposium in Asia has brought alums together, featuring panels, talks, discussions and conversations. Check back for information on upcoming plans for our next gathering.
Created in 1973, the tri-annual Black Alum Conference is organized by the Black Alum Society and centers the work of Black alums in transforming our communities and the world and recognizes alums demonstrating leadership and activism in their work and lives.
Since 1987, the biennial European Alum Symposium, organized by the Mount Holyoke European Alum Council, has featured a week of intellectual and social opportunities for alums from all over the world. Locations have included Paris, Seville, Riga and Athens.
The Alum Association of Mount Holyoke College recognizes the unique accomplishments of alums through several distinguished awards. Learn about the awards and our past winners.
Our award committees take tremendous care and conduct extensive research in selecting award recipients through an objective vetting process, with awards given at the discretion of the Association Board of Directors. Your recommendations are critical in identifying potential candidates.
Join us in celebrating the Alum Association’s 2026 Alum Award winners, honoring remarkable alums for excellence, leadership, and service to community, profession, and the College.
Explore career advising and professional development resources available to Mount Holyoke graduates, including services for recent alums.
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Thanks to generous gifts from alums, the Alum Association and the College offer a small number of fellowships annually to Mount Holyoke College graduates and students in their senior year.
Have news to share with your classmates? The class notes section of the Mount Holyoke College Alum Magazine occupies about forty pages—or half—of every issue and keeps readers connected to each other and to Mount Holyoke and the Alum Association.
Happening at Mount Holyoke
Three members of the Mount Holyoke College community were named to Washingtonian’s 2026 list of the 300 most powerful women in Washington, recognizing their leadership in philanthropy, government affairs and education.
Mount Holyoke College alum Suchi Saria ’04 was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026 for her work on a sepsis-flagging device.
Caroline Nobo ’07 will return to Mount Holyoke as director of the Weissman Center for Leadership, bringing more than 15 years of experience in higher education, nonprofit leadership and public service.
Chmba Ellen Chilemba
Class of 2017
Producer-DJ artist, named in Forbes Africa 30 Under 30
Candy Alexandra González
Class of 2014
Multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, activist and trauma-informed educator
Lan Cao
Class of 1983
Author of “Monkey Bridge” and “The Lotus and the Storm”
Esther Howland
Class of 1847
Created the United States Valentine’s Day card industry.
Ruth Muskrat Bronson
Class of 1925
Cherokee poet, educator and indigenous rights activist
Florence Sophie Schorske Wald
Class of 1938
former dean of Yale School of Nursing, credited as “the mother of the American hospice movement”
Addison Beaux
Class of 1999
“Affirming my gender really gave me confidence to trust myself,” Beaux said. “I believe when we love ourselves, it makes it a lot easier to love and understand other people, and how we treat others is a reflection of what goes on in our own inner world.”
Charisse Pickron
Class of 2008
Assistant professor at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Director of the Child Brain and Perception Lab, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Tahmima Anam
Class of 1997
Award-winning novelist
Kira Banks
Class of 2000
Psychology professor, St. Louis University and Co-founder of St. Louis University’s Institute for Healing Justice and Equity
Monica Landry
Class of 1990
Senior advisor for Farallon
Farah Khan
Class of 1998
Managing Partner at L Catterton
Caitlin Lambert
Class of 2009
Executive director and co-founder of the Children’s Legal Defense Center
Alison Rogers Cove
Class of 2012
Founder of USEFULL
Aimée Eubanks Davis
Class of 1995
Founder of Braven
Debra Martin Chase
Class of 1977
Tony Award-winning producer
Umama Zillur
Class of 2018
Co-founder and leader of Kotha, an organization dedicated to ending the culture of gender-based violence in Bangladesh
Kaneka Turner
Class of 2016
Founder of educational consulting company ReImage
Veronika Kivenson
Class of 2013
Postdoctoral fellow at Oregon State University and recipient of the Tory Burch Fellowship from the Innovative Genomics Institute
Gabi Gregg
Class of 2008
Fashion blogger and designer and advocate for the representation of plus-size Black women in fashion spaces
Chloé Zhao
Class of 2005
The first woman of color to win an Academy Award for best director
Natasha Mohanty
Class of 2003
Head of engineering for checkout experiences at Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform
Rumbi Bwerinofa-Petrozzello
Class of 1994
The first woman of color to serve as president of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Class of 1993
Entrepreneur and founder of Care.com
Tara Roberts
Class of 1991
2022 Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year
Mona Sutphen
Class of 1989
Partner and Head of Investment Strategies, The Vistria Group
Deborah Harkness, Ph.D.
Class of 1986
Best-selling fiction author, TV producer and professor of history
Suzan-Lori Parks
Class of 1985
First Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Holly Metcalf
Class of 1981
Top crew coach and champion in expanding access to the sport of rowing
Susan Kare
Class of 1975
Pioneer of pixel art and graphical computer interface
Wendy Wasserstein
Class of 1971
Tony-winning playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner
Barbara Smith
Class of 1969
Co-founder of the Combahee River Collective and co-author of the Combahee River Collective Statement
Janet Litster Rideout
Class of 1961
Organic chemist and patent holder of AZT
Nita Lowey
Class of 1959
U.S. Representative and the first woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee
Jean Sammet
Class of 1948
Co-developer of the computer programming language COBOL
Ella Grasso
Class of 1940
First woman elected U.S. state governor in her own right
Virginia Apgar
Class of 1929
Inventor of the Apgar Score for newborns
Frances Perkins
Class of 1902
First woman Cabinet member, U.S. Secretary of Labor and creator of Social Security
Emily Dickinson
Class of 1849
One of the greatest and most original poets of all time, literary rebel and author of “‘Hope’” Is the Thing with Feathers”
Our network of alums around the world share their time, insight and connections — these of course being code words for power. Alums of women’s colleges arguably constitute the most influential professional-women’s networks on the globe.
Keeping Mount Holyoke’s global community vibrant and engaged is dependent on the efforts of thousands of alums, parents and friends of the College who volunteer their time, talent, and resources.
Last year, 3,826 alums made gifts of $100 or less, totaling $218,757. Gifts of all sizes, big and small, have a huge impact!
There are 137 countries that alums call home.
The Alum Association of Mount Holyoke College is an independent organization that uplifts Mount Holyoke alums and builds community that fosters lifelong learning and empowers impactful connections.
The Alum Association is an independent organization that connects the global community of Mount Holyoke alums with each other and the College as we create meaningful change in the world.
