Cheever House is located at 828 Washington Street (on Route 16), slightly west of the Wellesley College campus.
From Greater Boston...
To reach us from the north and south:
Take Route 95/128 and exit at the Route 16 exit (exit 21B). Drive west on Route 16 until you pass the Wellesley Free Library on your left (about 2.9 miles). Get in the left lane and turn left at the traffic light at the five-way intersection, continuing on Route 16 (Washington Street) past the Village Church on the right. Follow the directions below to Cheever.
From the west:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike east to exit 15 (Weston, Route 95/128).Take Route 95/128 south and take the Route 16 exit (exit 21B). Drive west on Route 16 until you pass the Wellesley Free Library on your left (about 2.9 miles). Get in the left lane and turn left at the traffic light at the five-way intersection, continuing on Route 16 (Washington Street) past the Village Church on the right. Follow the directions below to Cheever.
From Boston/east:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike west to exit 15 (Weston, Route 95/128). Take Route 95/128 south and get off at the Route 16 exit (exit 21B). Drive west on Route 16 until you pass the Wellesley Free Library on your left (about 2.9 miles). Get in the left lane and turn left at the traffic light at the five-way intersection, continuing on Route 16 (Washington Street) past the Village Church on the right. Follow the directions below to Cheever.
Cheever House: 828 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
From the traffic light at the five-way intersection in the center of town, continue just over 1 mile west on Route 16 (Washington Street), past the College entrance (on your right) and past Waban House (on your left). Look for a sign on the left by a low stone wall in a wooded area (hidden entrance) at 828 Washington Street. Parking is at the end of the driveway to the left of the building. The main entrance is in the front. For the library, turn right past the main desk.
Senior Strategist
National Institute on Out-of-School Time
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
ahoffman@wellesley[dot]edu
Link to website
Former editor of Women’s Review of Books, providing unique perspectives on literary landscape with reviews of books by and about women.
For more than a dozen years, until winter 2018, Amy Hoffman was editor in chief of the Women’s Review of Books (WRB), which is published by the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) at Wellesley College, in collaboration with Old City Publishing in Philadelphia, PA. She is a member of the creative nonfiction faculty at Pine Manor College's MFA program. A writer and community activist, she has been an editor at Gay Community News (GCN), South End Press, and the Unitarian Universalist World magazine. Hoffman is the author of three memoirs -- Lies about My Family; An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News; and Hospital Time.
Hoffman has taught writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts and Emerson College and served as development director for the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and the Women’s Lunch Place, a daytime shelter for homeless women. She has served on the boards of GCN, Sojourner, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), and the Boston Lesbian and Gay History Project and as a judge of the Lambda Literary Awards. Hoffman has a B.A. in English from Brandeis University and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Hoffman has been awarded fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for five consecutive years, from 2012 through 2016.
Hoffman’s memoir, Lies About My Family, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2013. Her memoir An Army of Ex-Lovers, about Boston's Gay Community News and the lesbian and gay movement of the late 1970s, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2007. Her first book, Hospital Time, about taking care of friends with AIDS, was published by Duke University Press in 1997. An Army of Ex-Lovers was a finalist for both the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award and a Lambda Book Award in Memoir/Biography in 2008. Hospital Time was short-listed for the American Library Association Gay Book Award and the New York Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award and was a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age selection. Learn more about Hoffman’s books on her website.
You can reach the Wellesley Centers for Women, including Media Relations and Speaker Requests, at wcw@wellesley[dot]edu or 781.283.2500. Search the Wellesley College directory for contact information of specific research scientists, project directors, or other WCW staff.
The Wellesley Centers for Women has offices in three Wellesley College buildings -- Cheever House, Waban House, and the Stone Center. Follow these directions to our offices. Do not use our mailing address for driving directions.
Wellesley Centers for Women
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481-8203 USA
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B.A., Humboldt State University; M.S. and Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
atracy@wellesley[dot]edu
Specialized in latent variable and longitudinal modeling; collaborated with researchers at WCW, Wellesley College, and other institutions; occasional instructor of advanced workshops in methodology and guest lecturer.
Allison Tracy has over 15 years of experience providing methodological and statistical consultation for researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, research topics, and institutions – academic, applied, and commercial. Her approach to consulting is to translate researchers’ articulated research questions and hypotheses into statistical models and to translate results of these models back into plain English that can be understood by individuals both within and outside academia.
She has technical expertise in a wide range of statistical techniques used in the social sciences, including structural equation modeling, confirmatory factor analysis and MIMIC approaches to measurement, path modeling, regression analysis (e.g., linear, logistic, Poisson), latent class analysis, hierarchical linear models (including growth curve modeling), latent transition analysis, mixture modeling, item response theory, as well as more commonly used techniques drawing from classical test theory (e.g., reliability analysis through Cronbach’s alpha, exploratory factor analysis, uni- and multivariate regression, correlation, ANOVA, etc). She also has expertise in missing data analysis and power analysis. She has a strong background in program evaluation and measurement development. She is currently expanding her expertise to include Rasch modeling and Generalizability Theory approaches to measurement.
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