Event Details

2025 AMITA Business Meeting & Vote

AMITA Life, Contributing, Regular or Student Members Only

Date: June 7, 2025
Time: 1 PM to 2 PM Eastern (US) 
Location: Zoom, a link will be sent via email to registered participants

The Business Meeting will be held on June 7th following the 2025 Annual Meeting & Keynote Address.  If the Keynote Speaker Address runs late, the Business Meeting's start time will be adjusted.

At our business meeting we will review AMITA’s accomplishments for the academic year, discuss the vision for the future, and will give everyone an opportunity to vote on the new slate of board members.

Registration for the Business Meeting, voting privileges and other benefits are available to only to subscribed (paid) AMITA Life, Contributing, Regular, Recent Grad and Student members. Visit AMITA Membership Levels for more information. 

This business meeting is separate from and independent of  the 2025 Annual Meeting & Keynote Address. To attend both events, you will need to register for both events.

Agenda 1– 2:00 PM 

• Welcome & Meeting Overview – Kim Lesly Hunter '86
• Reports
  • President’s Report – Kim Lesly Hunter '86
    • General overview of AMITA’s activities in 2025
  • Committee Reports
    • Reports by Committee Chairs on activities in 2024-25
    • Officer Reports
• Annual Election of Board Members: Meet the Candidates
• Closing Remarks – Kim Lesly Hunter '86

Member Voting

1. Online: <Link Pending> You must be signed into your MIT Infinite Connection (Alumna @ alum.mit.edu) account to access the online ballot.

Online Votes must be submitted by 11:59 pm Eastern Time (US) on June 14, 2025

- OR-

2. Mail: print, complete and mail the ballot <Link to PDF Pending> in a sealed envelope signed on the outside to

Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA)
600 Memorial Dr.
Cambridge, MA 02139

Mail-in Votes must be postmarked by Saturday, June 7, 2025

Questions about voting? Contact us by email at AMITA_Nominations@alum.mit.edu 

How to Register

Women graduates of MIT are automatically eligible to be part of the AMITA Community. This is free and it enables you to get information about our events and activities. If you haven't already done so, Login and activate your MIT Online Community account.

Registration for the Business Meeting, voting privileges and other benefits are available to only with subscribed (paid) AMITA Life, Contributing, Regular, Recent Grad and Graduate Student memberships. 

1. Start: LOGIN. Scroll to the top of the page. You should see: a red button in the upper right that says "Register for this Event." Click the button to Register.

2. Logged in but seeing "Registration Closed"? Check your AMITA Membership status. Consider renewing your membership or joining AMITA as a Life, Contributing, Regular, Recent Grad and Student member.

3. Registration Questions? Contact AMITAHelp@alum.mit.edu

Contact

AMITA_President@alum.mit.edu

Event Details

Taylor Swift—The Person, The Music, and the Impact, a SEPT fundraiser

This special online event is a fundraiser to support the participation of local teachers in MIT’s Science and Engineering Program for Teachers (SEPT). (See website) The SEPT program presents innovative ways for middle and high school educators to teach STEM subjects.  All of the proceeds from this event will support local teachers.  If you are able to make an additional donation via the MIT Giving site to the MIT Club of Boston SEPT Fund (use this link for convenience), it will be greatly appreciated.

Do you have a Swiftie in your family, and you don’t understand the appeal?  Have you been curious about this pop musician who was able to sell out 152 stadium performances in 2023-4?  Are you looking for something fun and interesting to do with the family, while supporting a good cause?  Do you just love music?  This fast-paced musical and educational virtual event is just the thing you’ve been looking for.  Join the Zoom with your refreshments of choice at hand, and learn about Taylor Swift, her journey and her music.

Our host, David Kahn, spends a lot of time listening to music.  He listens to dozens of genres and follows hundreds of musicians/bands.  Some of these musicians are popular, and some are making excellent music in obscurity.  A couple of years ago, he decided to do a deep dive into the Taylor Swift phenomenon.  One of his daughters is a Swiftie, but other than a few of her popular songs he knew nothing about the person or her music.  David spent around 100 hours researching Taylor Swift and her music, and created a 30+ page document with over 200 links to videos, Wikipedia articles and news stories. After the program, every attendee will receive a copy of this complete document, so you can continue to explore this material on your own.

Taylor’s full discography is currently available on Spotify, and all of the official videos are on YouTube, but our speaker’s goal is to give you a more complete understanding of Taylor as an artist and as a person.  He’ll be sharing a lot of her music, but he’ll also be sharing some videos where Taylor explains her music and life experience in her own words.  David condensed a full course on Taylor Swift, supported by his detailed analysis, into this special event for the MIT Club of Boston.  By attending this session, you will see that Taylor Swift is:

• A songwriter
• A storyteller
• A performer
• A director
• A producer
• An entrepreneur
• An actress
• An activist
• A philanthropist
• A role model

David’s hope is that, by the end of this session, you’ll have a new or increased appreciation for everything Taylor Swift has accomplished.

About the Speaker

David Kahn has always been interested in music, and he collected albums and CDs in many genres back when that was the main way to explore interesting music.  Learning about music and musicians is easier now, and David spends many hours every month looking for interesting musicians and their music on YouTube and Spotify, and researching them on Wikipedia. He likes to find at least one new (to him) musician or band every week.

In 2022 he started a Music Enjoyment Club, where he shares interesting music with other music enthusiasts in a monthly Zoom session.  He organizes most sessions around a theme (Female Vocalists, Celtic Music, Piano Virtuosos, etc.), and he prepares a detailed handout for each session.

David Kahn has an SB in Course 6-3 (1978) and an SM in Course 15 (1981) from MIT.  He founded and managed D. Lawton Associates, an IT consulting firm, from 1986 through 2020.  He is currently the Asst. VP for K-12 STEM Engagement for the MIT Club of Boston and supports the MIT SEPT program.

Cost:

$15 Paid members of MIT Club of Boston
$25 General

Zoom link will be sent a day or two prior to the event to all paid registrants

Photo by Stephen Mease on Unsplash

Contact

dkahn@mitcob.org

Event Details

Cycle the Minuteman Bikeway with Fellow MIT Alumni

Join fellow MIT alumni and other cyclists for a relaxed Thursday morning ride on the Minuteman Bikeway – one of the premier rail- trails in the U.S., designated a Millennium Trail by the White House and inducted into the Rail-Trail Hall of Fame.

Starting Point: Thorndike Field Park parking lot (free parking) at 99 Margaret St, Arlington, just 0.2 miles from MBTA Alewife Station (Red Line).

Ride Details: The group will decide whether our destination will be Bedford’s Depot Park (20 miles round trip) or Lexington Common (12 miles round trip) on the paved Minuteman Bikeway. 
Pace: relaxed, ~12–14 mph.

Destination: Bedford’s Depot Park (20 miles round trip) or Lexington Common (12 miles round trip)—the group will decide. The entire ride will be on the Minuteman Bikeway at about 12–14 mph.

When: Thursdays, at 10 AM. We’ll return by approximately 11:30 AM to noon.

Indulgences: If there's interest, we’ll stop at Kickstand Café in Arlington on our way back.

Ride Status Updates: Ride status will be posted on Thursday morning, no later than 8:30 AM, at https://ihaveanidea.us/cyclemitcob/.
The event will be canceled if the organizer is unable to attend, the 10 AM forecast for Cambridge predicts a temperature <43° or probability of rain >25%.

Always check ride status before attending the event.

Queries: Contact Hayward Zwerling at 978-407-0101 or HZMD@me.com

Note: Each participant is responsible for their own safety and agrees to hold harmless MIT, the MIT Club of Boston, and the event organizer for any injuries or consequences arising from participation.

Contact

hzmd@me.com

Event Details

Join fellow MIT alumni for a virtual discussion of the book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma  by Mustafa Suleyman on Tuesday, June 17, at 7PM.

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI.

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. 
 
 As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. 
 
In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. 
 
How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control? How do we navigate the narrow path to a successful future? Suleyman establishes “the containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.

The Minuteman Library network in the Boston area has many copies of this book, but it is very popular.  You may have to put your name on a waiting list.   BookFinder.com is a great resource for finding gently used, less expensive copies of this book.

**Please read this book in advance of the discussion** 

A Zoom link will be provided by e-mail to those registered.

Contact

ctourgee@mitcob.org

Event Details

Join fellow MIT alumni for a virtual discussion of the book The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements  by Sam Kean on Wednesday July 23, at 7PM.

**Please read this book in advance of the discussion** 

A Zoom link will be provided by e-mail to those registered.

Contact

ctourgee@mitcob.org

Event Details

If you have trouble registering for this event, click here.

Step into an evening of elegance and connection at the 3rd Annual Ivy+ Summer Soirée - a gathering of distinguished alumni from the Ivy+ community. Hosted in the beautiful Harvard Club, this summer celebration offers a sophisticated setting to mix, mingle, and expand your professional and social circles.

Enjoy a curated selection of light hors d’oeuvres and access to a full bar (credit card only) as you engage in vibrant conversation beneath the historic charm of one of Boston’s most iconic and exclusive venues. While there will not be dancing, the evening will sparkle with good company, great conversation, and the opportunity to forge lasting connections in style. There will be ambient music to create a warm and festive atmosphere.

Attire: Dress to impress—cocktail or stylish evening attire is encouraged.

Ticket Pricing: $64/person. Two tickets maximum per registrant. Tickets are non-refundable. A waitlist will be available on a first come, first-serve basis in case of last minute cancellations.

Space is very limited. The last two years, we have sold out our block of tickets within days and had hundreds of people on the waiting list. Join the MITCOB to ensure you have priority access to tickets through April 27th. Tickets go on sale to the general MIT community on April 28th.

This is a 21+ event. By registering for this event, you are consenting to the use of your photographs in future event promotions.

Contact

tngai@mitcob.org

Event Details

Contact

ahtang@alum.mit.edu