Grace Powell

Wake Forest Fellow, Office of the Provost
powegm@wfu.edu

Grace Powell is originally from Marietta, Georgia, and she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a minor in Interdisciplinary Humanities. She was drawn to Wake Forest for its excellent academics, supportive and engaging community, and deep commitment to educating the whole person. 

As an undergraduate, Grace served as a tour guide and a President’s Aide, and she became heavily involved in the Program for Leadership and Character. During the summer of her sophomore year, she researched Principled Pluralism, where she learned how to value and engage those with differing views with empathy, humility and courage. In addition, she co-authored a memoir titled “Performing Character: From Stage to Page” about how the arts have shaped her character and identity during the pandemic. 

Her passion for the Program as well as her ability to think critically and independently due to her philosophy classes eventually led her to serve as an intern on the Global Women’s Narratives Project at the University of Oxford. As an intern on this project, Grace helped organize and edit narratives surrounding women’s lived experiences with themes such as conflict, gendered violence, health, religion, identity and life’s work to be used to affect change. The culmination of Grace’s work in Oxford resulted in her gathering publishable narratives through conducting interviews with female refugees in Greece for the project. 

Grace is delighted to be able to give back to Wake Forest and honored to work alongside Provost Gillespie, a leader she deeply admires, as her Fellow for this year.