Rachel Wilson ’98 speaking with Etown students during Friday, March 24 Mars Wrigley Lecture
The Elizabethtown College School of Business continued the 2023 Mars Wrigley Lecture Series on Friday, March 24 by welcoming alumna Rachel Wilson ’98 who serves as the CEO of CIC Health.
Wilson is an accomplished healthcare executive with over 20 years of leadership experience in academic health systems, specialty hospitals, large multi-specialty provider organizations, and start-up ventures. Opening the lecture by sharing her career path with a visual representation of peaks and valleys, Wilson explained that success is not a linear path and encouraged students to find a career that inspires them.
“The thread that has carried me through my journey is Etown’s Educate for Service motto,” Wilson, who majored in Occupational Therapy at Etown, said. “My ‘why’ is that I want people to have longer, better lives. It doesn’t matter if I’m an OT or CEO, that holds true.”
CIC Health is a public benefit corporation that launched in 2020 to provide accessible, equitable, and fast COVID–19 testing and vaccination services to communities across the United States.
In 2022, Wilson was also recently named the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow and The Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 Playlist. Following Etown, Wilson went on to earn a Master of Healthcare Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
About the Mars Wrigley Lecture Series
The Mars Wrigley Confectionery has partnered with Elizabethtown College to create an Executive Lecture Series, bringing senior executives from a variety of industries to talk about their experience. The next event of the Mars Wrigley Lecture Series will be held on Friday, April 14, 2023 and will feature alumni Robert E. Rigg ’74 who served as President of The Rigg Darlington Group.
Learn more about the Mars Lecture Series and check out the full list of spring 2023 speakers.
