by monique_oss | Mar 13, 2020 | Women's Empowerment
The world will be saved by the Western Woman.~ the Dalai Lama Support Women Leaders – Give Today! If you are like most of the rest of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has you in a state of unrest, to say the least. Women leaders in politics, medicine, and...
by monique_oss | Feb 19, 2020 | Literacy
Did you know that everything you so generously support through WIF began in a library? My passion for reading is the foundation of WIF’s very existence! It is the foundation for our strategic focus on literacy and our Reading Never Stops initiative. And it all...
by monique_oss | Jul 29, 2019 | Beauford Delaney, Interns, The Arts, Travel / Study Abroad, Women's Empowerment
2019 Summer Intern Maija Brennan and I were pleased to accept an invitation by University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Dr. Mary Campbell to visit her art history class in Paris. Maija is completing work on her internship project – a digital exhibition of...
by monique_oss | Jun 11, 2019 | Literacy, STEAM Education
Two years after the Wells International Foundation kicked off its partnership with the Houston Public Library with the first People and Pajamas read-a-thon, WIF founder and CEO Monique Y. Wells traveled from Paris, France to her hometown of Houston, Texas for the...
by monique_oss | Jun 9, 2019 | Interns, Travel / Study Abroad, Women's Empowerment
In 2019, for the 4th consecutive summer, WIF welcomed an undergraduate student into our summer internship program in Paris. When she joined the program, Maija Brennan was a rising senior at Smith College majoring in French and art history with a concentration in...