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WPI NY Reception

A dinner for Founders and Members will follow.
Date
November 5, 2025
Time
Reception: 6:00 p.m. | Founders and Members Dinner: 7:30 p.m.
Location
3 West Club, 3 West 51st Street, New York, NY, 10019, United States (Details)
Category
Social
Contact
Harvard Events Office | aad_events@harvard.edu
This Is a Past Event

About​

Please join us on Wednesday, November 5, for a special reception for Harvard alumnae, hosted by the New York chapter of the Harvard Women’s Philanthropy Initiative. Come together with fellow alumnae leaders across classes for conversation and connection.

Following the reception, WPI Founders and Members* are invited to a special dinner. Please note that this invitation is specifically for founders and members; we are unable to extend the dinner invitation to guests.

3 West Club
6:00 p.m. | Reception 
7:30 p.m. | Founders and Members Dinner
 

*Learn more about how you can become a Founder or Member of the WPI.

Featured Speaker

Melissa Dell

Melissa Dell

Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics

Professor Dell is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the 2020 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded each year to an American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. In 2018, The Economist named her one of the decade’s eight best young economists, and in 2014 she was named by the IMF as the youngest of 25 economists under the age of 45 shaping thought about the global economy. Her research focuses on economic growth and political economy. She has examined the factors leading to the persistence of poverty and prosperity in the long run, the effects of trade-induced job loss on crime, the impacts of U.S. foreign intervention, and the effects of weather on economic growth. She has also developed deep learning powered methods for curating social science data at scale, released in the open-source package Layout Parser. This work supports many of her current projects, which rely on digitizing historical sources far too large for manual digitization. Professor Dell is a senior scholar at the Harvard Academy for Area and International Studies and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received an AB in Economics from Harvard in 2005, an MPhil in Economics from Oxford in 2007, and a PhD in Economics from MIT in 2012. Before joining the Harvard Economics department in 2014, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

 

Host Committee

Founders
Tara Abrahams AB '99, MBA '04
Nicole Agnew Konzelmann AB '99
Eloise D. Austin AB '02
Aditi Banga AB '09
Meredith Landers Barth AB '97
Kathryn Fauss Patton Beal AB '94, P'26
Nisha Kumar Behringer AB '91, MBA '95, P'27
Eryn Ament Bingle AB '95
Mary Eileen Duffy Cannon AB '97, MBA '02, P'29
Leslie C. Chang AB '93, P'29
Katherine Yu-Ting Chen AB '17, AM '17
Sheree Chiou AB '00
Vanessa Hoermann Cornell AB '99
Erin F. Dillard AB '04, EDM '08, MBA '11
Rui Dong AB '05
Ingrid Ehrenberg AB '82, MBA '87, P'24, P'20
Lauren Reiss Frank AB '98, MBA '03
Erin Pond Friedland AB '98
Catherine A. Gellert AB '93
Sarah Knowles Bates Johnson AB '06
Elena Hahn Kiam AB '85, P'21, P'18, P'16
Kimberly R. Kravis AB '97, MBA '03, P'29
Alexandra J. McCormack AB '00, JD '03
Charis Menschel AB '97
Erica Mitnick Klein AB '00, JD '08, MBA '08
Rebecca Brogan Morse AB '02
Mari Nakachi AB '87, P'22, P'19
Andrea L. Olshan AB '02
Katherine Taaffe Richard Kanady AB '04
Gayle K. Turk AB '94, MBA '99
Pamela S. Wasserstein AB '00, JD '04
Helis Zulijani-Boye AB '05

Members
Naheed Rehman Abbasi AB '96
Janet Nezhad Band AB '83, JD '90, MBA '89, P'19, P'17
Jyotika Banga AB '13, MBA '19
Sheila V. Barrett AB '98, JD '01
Jennifer L. Bloom AB '95, MBA '01, P'28
Lauren E. Bonner AB '04
Kathryn Davis AB '97, MBA '03
Lucy Grayson Deland AB '06
Haninder K. Dhesi AB '01
Susan Fales-Hill AB '84, P'25
Kelly Nicole Fahl Fradin AB '06
Maria C. Garzon AB '84, P'23, P'20
Sukwon Han AB '91, P'29
Mary A. Lee AB '94, JD '97, P'26
Nara Lee AB '11
Celene A. Menschel AB '04, MBA '13
Sabina Menschel AB '99, MBA '05
Blair Endresen Metrailler AB '00
Nancy S. Park AB '96
Rhonda Edwards Powell AB '89
Michaella Maloney Prasad AB '99
Patricia Raciti AB '06
Roshini C. Rajapaksa AB '93
Cynthia Donahue Richards AB '85, P'26, P'24
Jessica A. Roth AB '92, JD '97
Nicole M. St. John AB '93
Barbara Justin Sterne AB '11
Diana Willson Sterne AB '11
Victoria Weld Bergstrom AB '92, P'27
Jennifer Collins Prather AB '97, MBA '01
Shyama Patel AB '94, P'28
Alissa Gordon Heinerscheid AB '06
Margaret J. Segal AB '83
 

 

Guest Policy

You are welcome to bring a guest to the reception by emailing the Harvard Events Office; we regret that we are only able to accommodate guests aged 21 and older.

Following the reception, WPI Founders and Members are invited to a special dinner. Please note that this invitation is specifically for you; we are unable to extend the dinner invitation to guests.

Event Guidelines

Harvard University Alumni Affairs & Development (AA&D) programs and volunteer opportunities respect the rights, differences, and dignity of others. Those taking part in AA&D activities are expected to demonstrate honesty, integrity, and civility and are accountable for their conduct with all members of the Harvard community. Harvard University AA&D reserves the right to suspend services to—and to exclude from participation in AA&D programs—any person whose inappropriate behavior adversely affects the safety, well-being, and inclusion of community members.

Our top priority is the health and safety of our guests. We ask that guests read all communications from the University regarding current policies and protocols. More information can be found on our policy page.

Questions

Please contact the Harvard Events Office with questions.