Education
Stanford University.
Stanford University.
As California"s First Lady, Wilson worked to further her husband"s goals of promoting early childhood education. She also helped establish a merit-based California state summer school for math and science, now known as COSMOS. Each summer this four-week residential program located on four University of California campuses serves over 600 high school aged students. As a young woman Wilson earned national recognition as one of the top 40 finalists of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search (now the Intel Science Talent Search).
She then furthered her academic career at Stanford University, where she earned a degree in biology and a Phi Beta Kappa key.
Since 2011, Wilson has been on the selection committee for the General Electric Reagan Scholarships.
Wilson currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Gilead Sciences, Incorporated. and the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of California Institute of Technology and Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, and she is the chairman of the Advisory Board and primary fundraiser for COSMOS. She is a former member of the board of Atlantic Richfield Company as well as of the Center for Excellence in Education.
