2026-27 Wake Forest Fellows announced

Eleven 2026 grads will return to their alma mater as Wake Forest Fellows. They will work throughout the campus community.

Since 2008, the Wake Forest Fellows program has provided exceptional Wake Forest College graduates with the opportunity to work in higher education administration for a year. Each fellow is serving as a full-time Wake Forest staff member, starting July 1. In addition to working with top administrators, the fellows will participate in leadership activities and interact with faculty, staff and students to learn about the inner workings of higher education.

The Wake Forest Fellows for 2026-27 are:

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Amaya Williams (Morrisville, NC)
Biochemistry major with a concentration in Molecular Biology and Bioethics, Humanities, and Medicine minor

Board Secretary
Sydney Calabrese (Raleigh, NC)
Health and Exercise Science major and Psychology minor

Campus Life
Josephina (Fina) Dooley (St. Simons Island, GA)
Spanish and Art History majors

Dean of the College
Mary Hauser (Kennebunk, ME)
Chemistry major

Information Systems
Samantha (Sam) Stinson (Shanghai, China)
Communication major and Psychology and East Asian Studies minors

Leadership and Character
Alfredo Diaz (Miami, FL)
Finance major

President’s Office
Catherine (Lulu) Clark (Greenwich, CT)
Critical and Creative Media major with Marketing minor

Provost’s Office
Carter Dow (Chicago, IL)
Health and Exercise Science major and Chemistry minor

START Gallery
Jane Alexander (Winston-Salem, NC)
Studio Art and Mathematics majors

Wake Downtown
Alaina Wheeler (Waldorf, MD)
Biology major with Bioethics minor

ZSR Library
Hannah Reynolds (Hastings, NE)
Critical and Creative Media and Theatre majors