On October 17, 2024, Wesleyan College was thrilled to host Michelle Nunn for this year's installment of the Gail Thompson Webster-Patterson Endowed Lecture in Business. Nunn engaged in meaningful conversation with Wesleyan College President Meaghan Blight  while sharing wisdom and empowering our students and other women in Middle Georgia and beyond to drive positive change in their communities.

Nunn leads more than 8,000 people working in more than 100 countries to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. In her nine years at the helm, CARE has taken its fundraising and impact to new levels, reaching more than 167 million people in 2023.

Nunn co-founded the volunteer-mobilization nonprofit Hands On Atlanta, led its 2007 merger with President George H.W. Bush’s Points of Light, and was Points of Light CEO for six years. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia with a major in history and minor in religion; earned a master’s in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a Kellogg Fellowship to study faith and social justice in more than 12 countries. She currently lives in Atlanta with her family.