Crysta Cassandra Brown, daughter of Robert and Patricia Brown of Wiscasset, received a bachelor’s degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts on Sunday, May 17. She was one of 666 seniors who graduated during the college’s 137th commencement exercises, at which pioneering educator Juliet V. García, the first Hispanic woman to lead a U.S. college or university, was the featured speaker.

A 2011 graduate of Wiscasset High School, Crysta Brown majored in psychology and education at Smith.

Her undergraduate activities included leadership roles in the Smith Christian Fellowship, supervising underclassmen employees in a dining hall on campus, and attending two Spring Break service trips to New Orleans to help in the rebuilding of homes that continues today due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Smith College educates women of promise for lives of distinction. The largest women’s liberal arts college in the United States, Smith enrolls 2,600 students from nearly every state and 62 other countries.