Demystifying the Life Domains
When Wily’s coaches sit down to meet with Scholars every week, the student guides the conversation. The topics that come up tend to fall into eight themes: Education, Personal Identity, Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and […]
Q&A with Dr. Judi Alperin King: Supporting students without a safety net during the holidays
The Mary Christie Institute researches the emotional and behavioral health of young adults, with a special focus on college students. In this interview, Judi describes the challenges that […]
Wily’s Second Annual Career Fair
How many times have you heard the phrase “your network is your net worth”? The people you know are part of what helps you access opportunity. But we don’t…
All-Pack Prep Week
Students are heading back to school for the fall semester, and that means we’re returning to a schedule of regular, in-person meetings with every Scholar! We geared up for the new semester with All-Pack Prep Week; a week where staff spent time together for trainings and team-building activities.
Getting In: A College Coach Conversation
Wily Coach Madjeen Lorthe and Executive Director Judi Alperin King sat down with the college admissions experts at Bright Horizons College Coach to discuss the Wily Network’s mission and […]
Interview with Eric James: the first Wily Scholar
When Wily met Eric James, we were both just starting out. He hadn’t yet enrolled at UMass Dartmouth, and we were yet to partner with our first student. Now, seven years and more than 100 Wily Scholars later, we sat down with Eric to talk about his new role. The first ever Wily Scholar has been appointed Mattapan’s Neighborhood Liaison to City Hall by Mayor Michelle Wu.
The New Yorker: The Price of Admission
We are honored to be the subject of a letter published in The New Yorker. The short piece was written by Wily Advisory Council member Annie Montesano (she/her). Annie’s letter references an article about University of Pennsylvania graduate Mackenzie Fierceton […]
The Wily Network Responds to the Mackenzie Fierceton Story
Mackenzie Fierceton is the child of a doctor who attended a private prep school in a wealthy suburb. She also called herself a first-generation low-income student. But Mackenzie Fierceton is not a liar. She is a student who found herself in a complex and easily-misunderstood situation: working towards her degree without support from family. Just as Mackenzie’s story was misunderstood, what makes a student a Wily Scholar […]
Wily’s 7th Annual Meeting of the Board
Why Wily? That’s the question board chair Katie Bramley asked at the 2022 Annual Meeting. Throughout the evening, we heard a variety of answers to the question. We heard about the sense of community and camaraderie at the first Wily Thanksgiving dinner, the supportive environment that Scholars build with one another, and the close […]
Spring Community Day 2022
We started off Spring Community Day with a dare: can you go the whole day without saying one of the banned words? We were all given five clothespins, and told that we could take someone else’s clothespins if we heard them say: Scholar, Judi, Wily, Coach or College. It was a challenge. It’s hard to spend […]
