女校友 Share Their Professional Journeys During Career Day Workshops, Part 2

Wendy grew up on a 1000-acre farm with an 8000sf home in The Plains with her parents, 她所有的兄弟姐妹, 还有一个名副其实的动物动物园. 那是一个美好的童年. After graduating from Bowdoin College in Maine and several disparate careers, 包括奥运马术选手, 骑教练, 和记者, 甚至在全国范围内搬家, 她在纳蒂克定居下来, MA, where she lives today in a much smaller 700sf home on a tenth of an acre. 正如她所说:“快乐在内心. 无论你在哪里，你都在那里.” While her proudest accomplishment is her two children, next is the career that she has pursued since 2005 — professional organizer. Her clients need her help to break through emotional clutter blocks so that they can live a more mindful life in an organized space. She helps them recognize the reasons they are clinging to things, 无论是感情用事, 内疚, 或者害怕浪费. She looks at each job as an archeological dig of sorts, seeking the nuggets of gold in the clutter. Clients also benefit from Wendy’s vast knowledge of how best to dispose of or recycle virtually any item — what can be donated and where, 什么可以回收, even how to think about your shopping habits so you can avoid adding new clutter to your living space. 她给姑娘们的临别赠言是, “The place you go home to should not be an orphanage for stuff you never use.” 

Meg Barber is a national security researcher in the Joint Advanced Warfighting Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a US Department of Defense Federally Funded Research and Development Center. 十多年来, she has helped tackle some of the nation's most pressing national security concerns. 因为她工作的敏感性, 我们没有录下她的谈话, but they were full to the brim with current Foxcroft students who were excited to learn all about Meg’s career analyzing trends in counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, evaluating current Department of Defense policy and guidance for security cooperation programs and activities, and Red Teaming the Secretary of Defense's National Defense Strategy. (如果你在那里，你就知道那意味着什么!)

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2001年从福克斯克罗夫特毕业后, Claire took a gap year to participate in a semester at sea and then intern for Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf, eventually enrolling at the University of Colorado at Boulder and earning a degree in political science fully expecting to work in Washington, 华盛顿还是纽约. 但经过一番自我反省, realized that wasn’t what she wanted and instead moved to Wilmington, NC. After a brief stint as a realtor, a friend at Maxim Healthcare Group encouraged her to apply there. Starting at an entry-level position she grabbed every opportunity to learn and was promoted quickly; seven roles in seven years. But the path was not always smooth and she notes that her journey included the challenges that many women face as they progress in their careers, from being hushed at the conference table and told that she was too emotional to navigating unwanted attention and bias. Still, she worked hard ultimately earning an MBA from Wake Forest University. Today she leads more than 500 people across the country as the National Director of Field 支持 at Maxim. She implored students to “give yourself the grace to explore, to change your mind, to make mistakes. 相信你的直觉.她最后的建议是, 适用于我们的职业和个人生活, 是“永远不要因为害怕而做决定?. 你比他们更强大，更聪明，更有能力. 你不需要成为反动分子. You can be in your centered, solid self, and make an informed decision.”

A two-week summer program at Parsons School of Design after her junior year at Foxcroft crystallized fashion design as the creative field for Lisa. 她去了普拉特学院，毕业后, 带着一份老式的作品集上路, 在Liz Claiborne找到了一份工作. Even though this women’s workwear company was not really her personal style, Lisa’s hand was the first one up for any opportunity throughout her 11 years there, 甚至高尔夫设计师——“我对高尔夫一无所知, 但我要这么做. 我将会喜欢我得到的任何机会." She calls her time at Liz Claiborne her master’s degree in fashion, 这让她在米兰的范思哲工作了一段时间, where she learned about the different creative muscles in her head. The Versace position required her "to use a very different creative muscle." That experience was followed by an invitation to return to Liz to build their new brand, Lucky. 然后, 六年前她在霍利斯特的现任职位, where she discovered that she thrives on having a roadmap, 一个策略, 作为设计师的建筑. 当她到达霍利斯特时, she had to excavate that DNA and rebuild the brand as well as nurture, 导师, and bring back the confidence of the designers who are all still with her today.