Carolyn S. Miles, President and Chief Executive Officer for Save the Children presents Our Best Bet: How Investing in Children Can Change the World on Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 8:00 pm in the Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium at Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, Mass. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Miles has been President and CEO of Save the Children since 2011. She is the first woman to hold this post. As the organization’s leader, Miles has focused on hunger, learning outcomes, and preventing child mortality as signature issues. Save the Children currently serves over 125 million children in the U.S. and 120 other countries.
Miles is the invited speaker for the 2013 Wilson Lecture, which is considered the College's the premier intellectual event. H. Kim Bottomly, President of Wellesley College, has called the annual lecture “the centerpiece of the academic year at Wellesley.”
The Wilson Lecture is named for Caroline Ann Wilson, Wellesley College Class of 1910, who was one of only a few female journalists to cover World War I from the battlefield. She endowed the lecture in 1962 hoping that it would continue to engage the Wellesley community in the most significant issues of the day for years to come. Year after year, Wellesley welcomes leading scholars and activists who bring the latest news from the front –whatever or wherever it might be. Past speakers have included Elie Wiesel, Cornel West, Lester Thurow, Lani Guinier, Oliver Sacks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Toni Morrison, Ambassador Anne Patterson, Chinua Achebe, Paul Farmer, among others.
Miles’ visit to campus coincides with the 100th Anniversary of the Wellesley College Child Study Center. There will be additional opportunities to celebrate this milestone anniversary with events and lectures throughout the 2013-2014 academic year.Visit www.wellesley.edu/events for more information, or call 781-283-2373.
