Please consider supporting the League this holiday season!

Dear WL friends,

As 2024 comes to a close, I have been reflecting on the strength and resiliency of the MIT Women’s League, an organization that has been a force for good in our community since 1913.   

This past year, with more people returning to campus, the MIT Women’s League has come roaring back, revitalizing our mission to foster community on campus. Many of our oldest programs continue and are flourishing, including the MIT Women’s Chorale, which now has over 60 active singers who are preparing for their annual winter concert on Sunday, December 15 at the Harvard Epworth Church in Cambridge. 

Highlights from the past year include sold-out events such as our annual Open House and a series of engaging programs, from art workshops to our ever-popular coffee socials. We relaunched the Stratton Lecture Series in March with a very successful program on Women and AI, and our collaboration with the International Scholars Office brought a new audience to our annual wreath-making event. Our 29th clothing drive is well on its way to completion as we work to source over 100 items of winter clothing for students in need. 

We also look forward to a robust agenda in 2025. On January 30, we will host a screening of Little Women for crafters – lights on so we can see as we knit, crochet, and sew. The Stratton Lecture will return on March 4, and will focus on the Epidemic of Loneliness, featuring Rebecca Saxe, the John W. Jarve Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, a member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, who has studied the impact of loneliness on brain structure and function. 

Of course, we could not do any of this without the generous support of individuals like you. Your yearly donations fuel the programming and services that have been the heart of the Women’s League for over a century. Today, our mission to connect women in the MIT Community through learning, social, and volunteer opportunities and enrich the broader MIT Community is more important than ever. 

We invite you to contribute a first time or continued gift to our annual appeal this year. Every gift, no matter the size, makes a meaningful impact and together we can ensure the important work of the MIT Women’s League thrives for generations to come.

With gratitude and warmth during this holiday season,

Nancye Mims
Chair MIT Women’s League

Photo credit: Ron Hoffmann