Mount Holyoke College
Founded in 1837, Mount Holyoke College immerses students in an intellectually adventurous global community to develop their voices and vision for the future, preparing them for lives of purposeful leadership in an ever-changing world. The leading gender-diverse women’s college, Mount Holyoke’s vibrant campus in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is home to 2,200 students. Together, we build on over 180 years of tradition to lead the way into a bold and bright future. View our community social media guidelines at: https://mtholyoke.tiny.us/community-guidelineswww.mtholyoke.edu
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Oct 13, 2026
Leigh Holmes FosterHOST
Does it make perfect sense to me? Yes, of course it does.
Leigh Holmes FosterHOST
Because let's look at What the Pioneer Valley is home to, right? You have my alma mater, Mount Holyoke College, longest continuing women's college, higher education institution in the country.
Leigh Holmes FosterHOST
Great.
Leigh Holmes FosterHOST
You have Smith College, women's college.
Andrea WarnerGUEST
So Baby has just graduated, uh, from high school.
Andrea WarnerGUEST
She's going to, uh, a college in the fall, I think, like, Mount Holyoke or something like that, and she has dreams of studying economic development and joining the Peace Corps.
Hannah McGregorHOST
Sure.
Andrea WarnerGUEST
So she is fully sort of in, uh, burgeoning activist mode.
Nana Afoah Appiah KorangGUEST
So after high school, I came to the US for my education.
Nana Afoah Appiah KorangGUEST
I went to a woman's college in Massachusetts called Mount Holyoke College, where I got a maths degree.
Nana Afoah Appiah KorangGUEST
After college, I worked at Goldman Sachs, where I was introduced to third-party capital investing through a group called the Real Estate Principal Investment area.
Nana Afoah Appiah KorangGUEST
I enjoyed the work, particularly fundraising, but I really wanted to explore opportunities in Africa, going back to the motto of the school.
Leah LeachHOST
Nice.
LaurenPANELIST
Uh, she earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics from Mount Holyoke College-
Leah LeachHOST
Ooh
LaurenPANELIST
...
LaurenPANELIST
in 1902.
LaurenPANELIST
And while attending Mount Holyoke she was named class president, and she discovered progressive politics and the suffragette movement.
Leah LeachHOST
Yes.
LaurenPANELIST
Um, her professor, Anna May Sewell, assigned the students a tour to factory, uh, to tour a factory to study working conditions, and Perkins recalled this as being a very important influence on her life.
Kristy ScherGUEST
Having this...
Kristy ScherGUEST
And look, I rowed in college at Mount Holyoke, and I, we had great resources because of Title IX.
Kristy ScherGUEST
It was a women's college, but being able to experience si- similar access, and I think that there are a lot of great things about that, except that I think that then that it taught us that, okay, there's sameness, like s- we're, there's sameness across the board, that men should be more like us emotionally, men should be more like us relationally, and while I think that there are certain things that are helpful for men, I think that we train men to not feel.
Kristy ScherGUEST
I think that we have a culture in which men actually have m- much, much less leeway about what they're allowed to express.
Trevin BarteeHOST
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Trevin BarteeHOST
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Vassar, Wellesley, Holyoke, University of Pennsylvania, Hotchkiss.
Trevin BarteeHOST
Pretty much all of them.
Amanda RoseHOST
Wow.
Elizabeth LandryGUEST
He went to architecture school.
Elizabeth LandryGUEST
I went to school out in Western Mass to a s- college called Mount Holyoke, um, and I was a psychology major there.
Elizabeth LandryGUEST
And we got married, and we had two kids, and we lived a life.
Elizabeth LandryGUEST
And what we ended up doing is we actually ended up designing and building houses for every stage of life.
Tavis SmileyHOST
In a moment, a conversation with a noted scholar and public intellectual Adolph Reed Jr., a distinguished visiting professor.
Tavis SmileyHOST
of politics at Mount Holyoke College looks at what, if anything, the war in Iraq was good for.
Tavis SmileyHOST
After more than three decades of U.S. occupation that has finally, finally come to an end, George Bush started this.
Tavis SmileyHOST
Now, 30 years later, we are finally leaving Iraq or have left Iraq.
Tavis SmileyHOST
In our third hour, two more conversations.
Tavis SmileyHOST
Up first, a dialogue with noted scholar and public intellectual Adolph Reed Jr., distinguished visiting professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College.
Tavis SmileyHOST
Looks at what, if anything, the war in Iraq was good for after more than three decades of US occupation that has now finally come to an end.
Tavis SmileyHOST
If you, if you're old enough to remember, you recall when we went into Iraq in the Bush era.
Becky MollenkampHOST
And I was talking with, with my wife about this, all of this.
Becky MollenkampHOST
And she, she, she, she did a couple of years of college at Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts.
Becky MollenkampHOST
And she said, she remembers like one, one, one night or whatever, like a lot, it's a, it's a women's college, it's a historical women's college.
Becky MollenkampHOST
And so, and it's near, it's just outside of Boston.
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