Sarah Willie-LeBreton

Sarah Susannah Willie-LeBreton is an American sociologist and academic administrator who has been the 12th president of Smith College since 2023. She was previously the provost and dean of faculty at Swarthmore College from 2018 to 2023.

Life The daughter of sociologist Charles Vert Willie, Willie-LeBreton attended high school in Concord, Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. from Haverford College in 1986. She completed a semester at Spelman College during her undergraduate studies. She earned a M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1995) in sociology from Northwestern University. Charles M. Payne, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, and Aldon Morris served as her committee members. She is the second African American in the role after Ruth Simmons who served from 1995 to 2001.

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