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Amnesty International USA Honors Pashtana Durrani
November 2025
WCW International Scholar-in-Residence Pashtana Durrani, M.Ed., has been honored with the Ginetta Sagan Award, which recognizes and assists women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread.
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Leading Scholars and Practitioners Unite to Harness Mothers’ Soft Power for Peace
October 2025
On October 3-5, 2025, 120 leading scholars and practitioners came together for the colloquium "Mothers Without Borders: The Phenomenology of Mothers' Soft Power in Peace Building," convened by Senior International Scholar-in-Residence Hauwa Ibrahim, J.D., S.J.D., M.L.
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From Healing and Truth to Research and Action: A Conversation with Kate Price About Her New Memoir
September 2025
On September 18, 2025, WCW celebrated the release of This Happened to Me: A Reckoning by Associate Research Scientist Kate Price, Ph.D. Price was joined in conversation by WCW Senior Scholar Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D.
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NIOST’s Georgia Hall Advises Carnegie Foundation on R&D Agenda to Transform the American High School
August 2025
Senior Research Scientist Georgia Hall, Ph.D., Director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), served for two years on the expert workgroup for the R&D agenda, representing the out-of-school time community.
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WCW Contributes to Health Advisory on AI and Adolescent Wellbeing
June 2025
Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab, contributed to the American Psychological Association's health advisory calling for guardrails and education to protect adolescent AI users.
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Adolescent Mixed-Ancestry Identity: A Measurement Pilot

Two years ago, scholars at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) launched a study of racial and ethnic identification among adolescents of mixed ancestry. The reasons for pursuing the research were several. Most literature about ethnic/racial self-identification patterns derived from adult respondents. For example, the series of studies that led to the change in wording of racial self-identification in the 2000 Census was carried out with adults.

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