Mona Motte Wilds

Director of Gift Planning

Mona works with Westmont supporters in Santa Barbara, in Los Angeles from Long Beach to Riverside and in California’s Central Valley in Bakersfield and Fresno.

Before joining Westmont’s Major Gifts team in 2005, she worked for 25 years for a variety of non-profit and educational organizations including the United Way, Boys Clubs of America, and Wagner College in New York City before serving for eight years as the Director of Development at Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara.

Mona graduated from the University of California in 1980 achieving high honors with a degree in History and a minor in Art History. After graduating from college, she attended the Art Students League in New York.

Working at Westmont has been an important part of Mona’s spiritual journey, as she particularly enjoys getting to know alumni, parents and friends of the college. Finding connections between Westmont’s needs and a donor’s passion is very important to her work.

Message from the President

Your investment in Westmont helps us accomplish our distinctive mission as a rigorous undergraduate, liberal arts college with a deep Christian commitment where students live in a close residential community and develop a broad global perspective.

The genius of Westmont lies in connecting these five essential characteristics in a unique educational experience that transforms young men and women into leaders inspired to change the world for Jesus Christ.

Students grow deeper in all areas of their lives -- intellectual, spiritual and personal -- while they develop their talents, discover their calling and prepare for a lifetime of service meeting the great, pressing needs of our time.