Distinguished Alumnae

Cindhura Reddy ’04 is proof that there are rewards, tangible and intangible, when one follows one’s heart and takes the path less traveled. A Laurel lifer and the youngest of three sisters to attend Laurel, Cindhura was involved in Green Key, Chapel Theater and Gallimaufry at Lyman Circle. After graduating from Oberlin College with a degree in political science, she knew her passion was not for law and the art of legal argument but rather for the art of cooking. So she applied to the Art Institute of Philadelphia where she received a degree in culinary arts, a field where women, especially women of color, are vastly underrepresented. Only 25% of head chefs and cooks in the US are women. Even fewer are women of color. 

Professor Emerita of Labor and Employment Relations

A writer, a cellist, a higher ed policy analyst, a workers’ advocate, Helena “Holly'' Worthen is a renaissance woman who has dedicated much of her professional life to labor education. After graduating from Radcliffe/Harvard, Holly won a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship at Stanford University where she would be the only woman in the program.She stayed on for a second year to get a master’s degree in creative writing and then traveled to Israel, where she found the theme of her first published novel, Perimeters. Her voracious intellectual appetite led to additional master’s degrees in landscape architecture and adult literacy from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Retired CEO, EMMES 

Marne Levine ’88
Chief Operating Officer, Instagram

Tamara Broderick ’03 (YAD)
ITT Career Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kathy Chilcote Pender ’55 (LA)
Community Volunteer and Psychotherapist

Deborah Becker ’73
Research Senior Associate and Director, the IPS Employment Center, the Rockville Institute at Westat

Caitlin Leibert ’03 (YAD)
Head of Sustainability, Chipotle