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Two Women of Note: Sachelle Ford and Carolyn Cole

Sachelle Ford

Carolyn Cole

This Spring, we introduce you to two Women of Note, students in the Emory community of outstanding women.

Sachelle Ford is originally from Kingston Jamaica, and came to Atlanta by way of Jacksonville, Florida. Until very recently, her mother worked at Emory, and Sachelle has wanted to attend the University since she was in 7th grade. She will graduate in a few weeks with a major in English.

Her most formative experience at Emory was a course in Women’s Studies at Oxford, when her eyes were opened to how theory is applied in practice, and how service to others can be that application. Her first course included an experience teaching English to immigrant women, and she began to see the power of the connections between community and education. While at Oxford, she also participated in a project with I Care, working for a week with a family in need after Hurricane Katrina. At Emory she has worked in the Center for Women, been a member of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, co-directed a production of the Vagina Monologues, been an RA in Campus Life, and earned the prestigious Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. She says that Emory provides its students with many opportunities to give back that other campuses lack, and she sees this as a privilege.

Commencement will be bittersweet for her, as she sets her sights on next Fall as a Ph.D. student at Brown, where she will study to be a teacher.

Carolyn Cole is from the Philippines and was evacuated at age 4 due to a volcano. Her family moved to Denver, where she discovered Emory through a high school friend who selected the University. Carolyn was drawn to Emory for its beauty and reputation, and she wanted to experience the South and the diversity of Atlanta. She will graduate in ‘09 with a double major in International Studies and Sociology. Carolyn received the 2008 Leadership and Service Delores P. Aldridge Excellence Award, named for Emory's first African American professor and founder of the African American Studies Program at Emory University.

Carolyn’s most formative experience at Emory was participation in multicultural community building projects, especially the Sustained Dialogue Program. She plans to study abroad in Africa this summer, and hopes this experience will help reveal her next steps, perhaps some work in Washington D.C. after graduating. Right now, she plans to earn a Ph.D. in Sociology and teach, as this is where she sees change occurring. Her observations of excellence at Emory include its place in the larger community of Atlanta, where there is a solid multicultural presence and a significant black community, as well as its active, service-oriented presence as a University that is academically rigorous.

Do you know a “Woman of Note?” Someone who excels in her field, is involved in the arts, has an interesting hobby or avocation, or volunteers for a worthy endeavor? If you know someone who should appear as a Woman of Note, please download the application here and email it to sasha.smith@emory.edu.

Women of Note Archives.