Tufts is a student-centered research university that fuels a lifelong passion for creativity, collaboration, and civic engagement, as well as a shared mission to address the most consequential challenges of our time—one we ask you to join with boundless optimism so that together, we may light a path to a Brighter World.

Volunteer Spotlights

Janice Savin Williams, J79

Janice Savin Williams, J79, an equity owner and managing director of the financial services firm Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC, has brought an irrepressible enthusiasm for the university’s progress to the Board of Trustees and the Campaign Cabinet Executive Committee. As a member of the Athletics Board of Advisors, she also has been a champion of sweeping improvements across Tufts Athletics, including the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center and more recently, the Strength & Conditioning Coaching Development Program.

 

Leslie Puth

When Leslie Puth enrolled in Fletcher’s Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) program in 2009, she already had a long list of academic, professional, and personal accomplishments under her belt, including a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley; an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business; a successful career in currency trading and sales; leadership positions with various community organizations and nonprofit boards; and an active family consisting of her husband David, A79, three children, and a dog.

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Growing up in a one-bedroom flat in a triple-decker with his parents and three sisters in Somerville’s Teele Square, Peter Delli Colli, A69, D73, never could have imagined he would have a lifelong relationship with the university down the street. “When I was in a baby carriage, my mother would take me on walks around the campus,” he joyfully recounts. Later, Peter attended Tufts on a full scholarship with room and board.

Building a Brighter World, Together

The involvement, generosity, and partnership of the Tufts community is inspiring.  Watch this video to see just some of the ways Tufts has risen to today’s challenges, with a renewed sense of purpose for how, together, we can continue to build a brighter world.