Trainee Health Psychologist, Department of Psychology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Hughes’ history of leadership in the Greater Boston community includes serving as regional co-chair of the Wellesley College Friends of Art Boston Committee and board president of the Society Zeta Alpha Alumnae Association, as well as a board member of Wellesley College Hillel Alumnae Association and Greater Boston Choral Consortium, a corporation member of the Boston Early Music Festival, and a member of both the Spaulding Hospital Young Professional Group.

Hughes graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in music from Wellesley College, and earned a master’s degree in musicology from Brandeis University. A music-lover from a young age, Hughes sang with Youth Pro Musica while in elementary school, and served as a section leader in the New England Conservatory Youth Chorale while in high school. Hughes now lives in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston with her husband Marcus Hughes, who works as an attorney for the City of Boston.

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