NDA alumna Kameelah Benjamin-Fuller '96 is the Chief Diversity Officer and Corporate Social Responsibility Leader at PTC. She is a driver of transformational change as an activist, champion of equity, diversity, and inclusion with more than 20 years of experience in ED+I and CSR initiatives across industries, including entertainment, financial services, technology, and travel. Most recently, she co-founded and led ED+I at Tripadvisor, where she ignited a small program into its current global remit. 

NDA's first in a new speaker series, See It to Be It, sponsored by the Billiart Leadership Institute. Journalist and ABC News producer Stephanie Wash '04 talks about her time at NDA, her career path, how she approaches broadcasting with a social justice lens and lessons for women leaders.

Stephanie is the lead editorial producer of the ABC Special Say Her Name, which investigated the evidence in the Breonna Taylor case and searches for answers from the night that claimed her life. She is also the senior editorial producer for The Soul of the Nation, a groundbreaking series about Black people, for all people, about the Black experience in America, which is scheduled to premier Tuesday, March 2, 2021. 

NDA’s Billiart Leadership Institute presents See It to Be It, a speaker series that brings together accomplished NDA alumnae and female leaders to share their insight, perspective and lessons on leadership and life. Francesca Federico '06 shares her experiences as Cofounder and President of Twelve Points Wealth Management, a nationally-recognized top 401(k) advisory firm, and as one of the top 40 under 40 advisors in the country.

Susan Hunter '85 recently published the book 77 Letters: Operation Morale Booster: Vietnam, based on a collection of saved letters her mother, Joan Hunter, a Scituate housewife, had written from 1966 to 1972, during the Vietnam War, when she corresponded with deployed American soldiers fighting this war.

She moved to Nashville three years ago, and is the editor and a writer for a local magazine. She recently wrote a Christmas screenplay on spec for the Hallmark Channel and is serving as a producer and writer for a documentary on Vietnam veterans.