People

Maud Bulman

Hometown Meadville, Pennsylvania Why Wooster Wooster has a strong sense of community that I felt welcomed to as a prospective student, through four years […]

Leah Anderson

Hometown Peoria, Illinois Why Wooster The personal investment faculty have in their students at a small liberal arts college is invaluable. With the Independent […]

Gracie Andrews

Hometown Canton, Ohio Why Wooster I love the small community. Students can have a personalized education at Wooster. Advice for Applicants Go where you […]

Dieng teaches Africana Studies.He is specialized in Postcolonial Studies, Race Theory, Francophone & Anglophone African Literature, African Diaspora Literature; Black Intellectual History,Cultural Theory, Migration, World Literature, Black Europe and Global Black Studies.

Miriam Kilimo

Specialized in Black and African feminist politics, law, and governance in contemporary Africa, Kilimo is an assistant professor of Africana Studies.

Abby Righter

Hometown Fremont, Michigan Why Wooster The investment of staff and faculty in each individual student is so genuine, and I love the residential college […]

Diane Holt Frankle

Diane Holt Frankle ’75 is a Trustee of The College of Wooster and chairs the Board of Trustee’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, which provides leadership and support for the Board’s efforts to build competencies, skills, and capacity to engage and lead effectively within, across, and about difference, she also serves on the Board’s Trusteeship and Governance and Mission and Outcomes committees.

Frankle is chairman of the board, chief operating officer and co-founder of Building Bridges Together, a California nonprofit corporation promoting interfaith dialogue among Christians, Jews, and Muslims to develop meaningful relationships and understanding. Since 2013 she and her husband have been promoting interfaith dialogue programs.

Frankle is an active panelist in the Interfaith Speaker Bureau for Islamic Networks Group. She serves on the San Francisco Advisory Board of Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit which challenges students and teachers to use history to confront bigotry and hate. She is a senior fellow in the American Leadership Forum — Silicon Valley.

Frankle practiced corporate law in Silicon Valley for more than 30 years, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance work with boards of directors and management as a partner with Ware & Freidenrich, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, DLA Piper, Kaye Scholer, and Arnold & Porter; she retired from the practice of law in 2018 to focus on Building Bridges Together. Diane received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, in 1979 and her B.A. from Wooster in Political Science.

Rev. Joy E. Bronson

Joy E. Bronson ’07 graduated from The College of Wooster with a degree in English and Africana Studies. After completing her undergraduate degree, Bronson focused her work in social justice advocacy and just community formation. She served with AmeriCorps program City Year; as community & program coordinator for the Community Property Impact Corporation’s poverty solutions collaborative with The Ohio State University; as training director of Ohio Court Appointed Special Advocates; and as a minister of mission & ministries in Columbus, Ohio.

A fourth-generation reverend, Bronson earned her Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School with a focus in vision, play, and transformational change; her work integrates theology, equity, community-centered design, and evaluative learning to support organizations more consciously practicing missional alignment with their values and communities they serve.

She presently serves as the Lilly Endowment grants coordinator for two $1 million congregational vocation and justice initiatives at American Baptist College (Tennessee), and as the pastor of vocational & strategic alignment at Glencliff UMC, a Nashville, Tennessee justice-seeking mission church. Bronson is the founder of Vision:Justice, which facilitates transformational alignment for greater community impact, and incubates just community initiatives.

Britta Treu

Britta Treu, majoring in communication studies, minoring in music, and pursuing a pathway in entrepreneurship, is from Auburn Township, Ohio. Treu is a four-year member and senior co-captain of Women’s Lacrosse, first chair and trumpet section leader in Scot Marching and Symphonic bands, a member of Shades of Gold a capella group and communication club, and president of Wooster Christian Fellowship. She also has received the Theodore Williams Prize in Music. The title of her I.S. is “Face to Face: Finding Confidence in my Voice in a Technology-Centered Generation.” After Wooster, Treu hopes to pursue her masters in communications and eventually work in broadcasting. Her immediate entrepreneurial motivation is to create her own lacrosse business for young women in Cleveland and northern Maine. 

Zoe Seymore

Zoe Seymore, majoring in psychology and minoring in math and Chinese is from Fort Worth, Texas. At Wooster, Seymore has been involved as secretary of the BIPOC Performing Arts Alliance, a member of the COW Dance Company, Women of Images, and is co-founder and co-president of Wooster Adoptee Student Union. She also helped to organize the March for Asian Lives protest on campus in spring 2021. Seymore’s I.S. is titled, “Overlooked Adoptees: The Effects of COVID-19 Racism and Ethnic Identity on the Psychological Well-Being of Chinese Transracial Adoptees in the United States.” After graduation, Seymore will be heading to Taiwan to be an English teaching assistant with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Upon returning to the U.S., she plans to attend graduate school to be able to work in a clinical setting with adoptees and Asian Americans. 

Ethan Dasilva

Ethan Dasilva, majoring in political science (comparative politics) and education, is from Morton Grove, Illinois. During his time at Wooster, Dasilva was a teaching assistant for the Political Science Department, a member of the swim team (backstroke and freestyle), secretary of Scot Council and a member of the Social Justice and Equity Council, and president of Wooster Future Educators. Dasilva’s Independent Study is titled, “How Does a City’s Migrant Identities Affect Urban Governments’ Implementation of Affordable Housing Policies?” Next fall, Dasilva plans to teach 5th grade STEM outside of Evanston, Illinois.