The Smith community comes together for events throughout the year. From the first Rally Day in 1876, to Julia Child Day and the Sherrerd Teaching Prizes, begun in 2004, the college's annual events ...

Sarah Peskin ’71 credits Smith with inspiring her mission to preserve Frances Perkins’s historic home I often tell people ...

Thursday, November 6, 2025 1:30-3 p.m.

Gretchen Groggel Ralston is the chief legal officer for the college and oversees the provision of legal services and development of legal strategy for the institution. She joined Smith in November ...

Lisa Howie oversees the investment of Smith’s endowment, with the goals of providing significant support to the college’s annual operating budget and supporting Smith’s future activities. Howie came ...

Yael Granot received her doctorate in social psychology from New York University and her bachelor’s from Vassar College. Her research focus is psychology and law. She uses eye tracking and other ...

Ertuğrul Ahmet Tonak teaches courses on political economy, Marxist economics, and political ecology. He previously taught for many years at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, İstanbul Bilgi University, and ...

Jen Berger has been exploring the intersections of art and social justice since 2003. She has worked as a community organizer, an event producer, an educator, a teaching artist, and a professor. In ...

Sarah Sawyer is a high school English teacher at a boarding school in Western Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is a graduate of Amherst College and Middlebury’s ...

Yitong Pepper Huang is an applied mathematician who conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and the life sciences. She develops mathematical models and ...

Bailly Morse received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College and her M.F.A. in creative fiction from Southern New Hampshire University’s Mountainview M.F.A. program. She got her start as a ...

Nathan DuFord teaches political theory. Their research and teaching focus on critical theory, feminist thought, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and contemporary political thought. Nathan focuses on ...