YANA

"What is Public Art?" Panel
2022-03-24 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
What is Public Art?
YANA Panel
Thursday, March 24 | 5 PM PDT // 8 PM EDT
All welcome to attend; Registration required
Why does it matter to society, what counts and how do artists reflect upon its power to engage audiences? When foundations are involved, how do they decide which art and artists to support? Is there diversity on both sides? How are Yalies in nonprofits making a difference?
We hope you can join us for what promises to be a compelling conversation moderated by YANA’s Bay Area Chapter Chair, Eleanor Evans Pepples Yale ’86.
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Panelists:
Zheng Chongbin, Pre-eminent Chinese American Artist
Ted Russell, Director of Arts Strategy & Ventures, Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Eleanor Evans Pepples (moderator), YANA Bay Area Chapter Chair

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Yale’s Common Good & Creative Careers Networking Event
2022-03-04 13:00 - 16:00 UTC
We invite you to participate in Yale’s Common Good & Creative Careers Networking Event taking place virtually on Friday, March 4th from 1:00pm-4:00pm ET. This event provides your organization a unique opportunity to engage with talented Yale students who are interested in learning about opportunities within Non-Profits, Education, Government and the Arts.
With 38% of Yale College graduates consistently securing positions within the areas of non-profit, government, NGO, education, or other public agency, we know that Yale students have a commitment to service. Additionally, Yale has a Summer Experience Award (formerly the DSA) to support all Yale undergraduate students on financial aid who have secured an unpaid summer internship with an organization in the Non-Profit, Government, Arts and Science sectors. There were over 300 Summer Experience Award (SEA) recipients for the 2021 summer.
There are no fees to attend this event! Details and registration!
Unable to attend Yale’s Common Good & Creative Careers Networking Event but still want to recruit Yale students? In addition to this event, we also offer a number of services for free to employers. Recruit at Yale explains the variety of ways that Yale’s Office of Career Strategy can help you in recruiting Yale students.
Please contact Julia.Coppola@yale.edu with any questions about the event.

"Healing Through Compassion and Community" YANA Virtual Town Hall
2022-02-23 18:30 - 19:30 UTC
ADDICTION RECOVERY
Healing Through Compassion and Community
YANA Virtual Town Hall
Wednesday, February 23 | 6:30 PM EST
All welcome to attend; Registration required

Addiction in the US was already at a crisis level when Covid struck. The pandemic fueled an increase in financial insecurity and social isolation, triggering a surge in addiction rates. On February 23rd, YANA’s Town Hall will address addiction for the first time by describing how two Yale-related nonprofits are using community-based approaches to support recovery.
Rabbi Iggy Gurin-Malous, CEO of the T’shuvah Center in New York, and Daniel J. McDermott ’76, Executive Director of Florida Lawyers Assistance in South Florida, will describe how both secular and non-secular recovery programs can be effective in treating addiction.
We hope you can join us for what promises to be a compelling conversation moderated by YANA’s Executive Director Rachel Littman ‘91.
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"Stories of Afghan Refugees: Hope in Resettlement" Panel
2022-02-15 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Stories of Afghan Refugees: Hope in Resettlement
YANA Panel
Tuesday, February 15 | 6:30 PM EST
Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the US evacuated more than 75,000 Afghans to the United States. This is truly a historic effort, second in scale only to the Vietnamese resettlement in the 1970’s and made especially difficult by our dismantled resettlement infrastructure – and housing crunch.
The trauma suffered by the Afghans — first, life in a war-torn country, abrupt departure, loss of community; and now, unfamiliar language, culture, and future — all of this is unimaginable for those of us who do not share such lived experience.
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Richard Mollica (Yale Div MAR), Director of the Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma on the importance of storytelling in helping to heal trauma. Learn what the resettlement process is today – and hear the stories of Afghan natives who are working to help their countrymen begin new lives in the U.S.
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SPEAKERS

Khalil A Arab, SIVs & Allies Program Manager, Combined Arms
Shabana Basij-Rasikh, President, School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA)
Chris George, Executive Director, Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS)
Richard Mollica, Prof. of Psychiatry, Harvard Med.; Director, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Mass Gen. Hospital
Hossna Samadi, IRIS Ambassador
Kaveh Khoshnood (moderator), Assoc. Prof & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale School of Public Health

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2021 Yale Alumni Recognition Awards Ceremony
2022-01-27 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Please join us for a celebration of this year’s YAA Leadership Awards, Alumni Schools Committee Service Awards, Yale Alumni Fund Chair’s Awards, and YAA Board of Governors Excellence Awards for alumni groups and programs.
Together, we will congratulate these outstanding volunteers and groups for their efforts on behalf of Yale and their communities.

"Two Fearless Champions of the Environment" YANA Town Hall
2022-01-26 18:30 - 19:30 UTC
Two Fearless Champions of the Environment
YANA Town Hall
The Yale Club of New York City
In-Person & Virtual
Wednesday, January 26 | 6:30 PM EST
All welcome to attend; Registration required

Urban parks and natural areas have never been more important for our collective sanity than during Covid. On January 26th, two alums from the Yale School of the Environment – Sarah Charlop-Powers ’09 MEM and Georgia Silvera-Seamans ’01 MEM – will describe what they and their organizations are doing to protect our urban ecosystems and the biodiversity that inhabit them.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a compelling discussion moderated by YANA’s Executive Director Rachel Littman ‘91.
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Co-sponsored by YANA & Yale Blue Green

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Please indicate when registering if you will attend in-person or virtually
Details regarding COVID protocol at the Yale Club are noted on the registration page
Those who are attending in person are invited to gather for drinks in the Main Lounge after the Town Hall concludes at 7:30pm

Sarah Charlop-Powers is the co-founder and executive director of the Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC), a nonprofit dedicated to managing New York City’s 20,000 acres of forests and wetlands. The NAC is a pioneer in the field of urban conservation, using data and science to develop new ways to manage urban natural areas so that they provide recreation opportunities for diverse users, protect biodiversity, and provide environmental benefits. Sarah has a BA in Economics from Binghamton University and an MEM from the Yale School of Forestry.

Georgia Silvera-Seamans lives and breathes city trees–with field experience in New Haven, Boston, Oakland, and NYC, and a dissertation about urban forestry policy in Northern California cities. Georgia’s research has been published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening and Arboriculture & Urban Forestry. She is the founder of Local Nature Lab and directs Washington Square Park Eco Projects where she designs urban ecology programs for New Yorkers of all ages. Georgia also writes about trees with bylines in City Trees and about birds with articles at Popular Science and Audubon.

Advancing Educational Success for Under-Resourced Students & How You Can Help
2022-01-20 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Join us for a conversation about how we advance the success of under-resourced students. How do we define educational success? What challenges exist at each juncture along the educational journey — entering college, as an undergraduate, and post-collegiate — and how are higher ed academic institutions providing resources and services to support success and ensure students are prepared to accomplish their current and future academic, personal, and professional goals?
We will hear from a current student, recent grad, and two professionals working at nonprofits whose work uses various approaches to respond to the needs and challenges in this space. We also hope to highlight actionable opportunities for further engagement.
SPEAKERS:

Ellie Dupler ‘16 (recent alum), Fulbright and Truman Scholar; Law clerk, US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
Nick Randos ‘23 (current undergrad)
Liana Epstein ‘14, Associate Major Gifts Officer, American Indian College Fund
Lise Pfeiffer Chapman ‘81, President, 1stGenYale

Moderated by Seth Zimmerman MA ’10 M.Phil ‘11 PhD ‘14, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management
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Co-sponsored by YANA & 1stGenYale

YANA Tea with Jitasa founder, Jeff Russell
2022-01-10 18:30 - 19:30 UTC
You Are Invited to a YANA Evening Tea
Jeff Russell SOM ’08
Founder & CEO, Jitasa
Join the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance for an intimate Evening Tea with Jeff Russell SOM ‘08, Founder and CEO of Jitasa, a certified B-Corporation that offers bookkeeping and accounting services exclusively to nonprofits, and author of Do What You Do Best: Outsourcing as Capacity Building in the Nonprofit Sector (2013). Audience members are encouraged to bring and submit questions.
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Monday, January 10 | 6:30 PM EST
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Jeff is the Founder and CEO of Jitasa, a certified B-Corporation, serving nonprofits nationwide. Jeff has extensive international experience in consulting, client management and back-office operations. He served as the Executive Director for an international development non-profit, The Momentum Group. Jeff has worked at Accenture as a business process outsourcing advisor and consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and at PACCESS, a supply chain services company, overseeing their Asian operations from his office in Bangkok. He is a Georgia Tech Industrial Engineer and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Yale University

YANA Networking & Fundraising Evening
2021-12-07 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
YANA Networking & Fundraising Evening
Back by popular demand, YANA will be hosting another networking session with breakout rooms based on topical areas of interest. Come meet fellow Yalies to explore career areas or share resources and ideas.
Tuesday, December 7 | 6:30 PM ET
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Public Service Fellowships Information Session
2021-12-01 19:30 - 20:30 UTC
Join Dwight Hall and friends for a Public Service Fellowship information session on Wednesday, December 1st at 7:30 pm EST on Zoom. We will be discussing available public service fellowship opportunities for undergraduates and postgraduate opportunities, as well as suggestions for writing a strong fellowship application. There will be an opportunity to connect with Yale’s Office of Career Strategy and the Yale Fellowships Office.
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Panelists:

Lindsay Lawton is Yale Fellowship’s Senior Associate Director. She will speak on available resources through the fellowship office as you discover and prepare to apply for fellowships.
Robyn Acampora is the Office of Career Strategy’s Director of Strategic Initiatives and Public Service Careers. She will speak on OCS resources for career preparation and planning.
Mark Fopeano is Dwight Hall’s Director of Programming and Evaluation. He will speak on what makes a strong fellowship application for Dwight Hall Public Service fellowships.

Finding Meaningful Social Impact Engagement in Later Years: Opportunities and Obstacles
2021-12-01 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
Finding Meaningful Social Impact Engagement in Later Years:
Opportunities and Obstacles

Wednesday, December 1 | 7:00 PM ET
All welcome to attend; Registration required

Many professionals aged 65 and older find themselves approaching, transitioning to, or even in retirement with a feeling of wanting to give back but having no idea how or where to start. Questions arise such as: What do I want to do with the next phase of my life? What is the best fit for my skills and years of experience? Where will I be welcome? Is there even a place for me in the social impact world?

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Marc Freedman SOM ’84
President, CEO, Founder
Encore.org

Jody Shue, MPH
Executive Director
AgeFriendly.org

Ashton Applewhite
Author
This Chair Rocks

Becca Levy, PhD
Professor
Yale School of Public Health
Yale University Dept. of Psychology

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Avoiding burnout in social impact jobs
2021-11-10 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
Avoiding Burnout in Social Impact Work
Wednesday, November 10 | 6:30 PM ET
All welcome to attend; Registration required

Health practitioners, managers, and startup nonprofit leaders will talk about how they approach managing and supporting the mental health of employees, direct service providers, and school and local communities.

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Nicola Fleischer SOM ’22
Co-founder
edwell

Daisy Rosales SOM ’20
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Brio

Allison Hertz ’05
Senior Director, People Experience & Well-Being
City Year, Inc.

Sylvia Perry ’91
Nurse Practitioner
BA, MS, MSN, DNP Candidate
Massachusetts General Hospital

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Storytelling through Architecture: Lessons for Nonprofits
2021-11-09 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
Storytelling through Architecture: Lessons for Nonprofits
Physical space can be a powerful way for nonprofits to tell their stories.
Not just origin stories and founding myths, but also stories of transformation,
reinvention, and renewal—in other words, both who you are as an organization
and who you are becoming or aspire to be, and why it matters for the communities you serve.
Join Celia Imrey ARCH ’93 and Arielle Gorin M.A.’11, M.Phil.’13, PhD.’16 for a lively discussion of how nonprofits can tell their stories through offices, meeting rooms, gathering spaces, and other aspects of their built environment.
Drawing on their respective backgrounds as an architect and a consulting historian, Celia and Arielle will share real-life examples of organizations that have used physical space to engage audiences in their identity and purpose—something that is all the more timely as we begin to gather again.
SPEAKERS:
— Celia Imrey ARCH ’93 (Principal, AIA Associate/LEED GA, Imrey Studio) >> Full Bio
— Arielle Gorin M.A.’11, M.Phil.’13, Ph.D.’16 (Senior Consultant, Saybrook Partners) >. Full Bio
Moderated by Rachel Littman ’91 (YANA Executive Director)
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YANA Virtual Town Hall: "Empowering Underserved Youth Through the Gateway of Sports"
2021-10-27 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
Please join our next YANA Town Hall on October 27th to learn how three seasoned social impact leaders – Terence Li ‘04, Tim McChristian ‘77, and Ted Smith ’00 – have created innovative programs that use sports as a gateway to help under-served youth achieve their academic, leadership, and career potential.
All three of the featured programs are New York-based but the challenges they face and the principles they practice are universal. We hope you can join us for what promises to be a compelling discussion moderated by Andrea McChristian ’08.
***IN-PERSON PROTOCOL (please indicate with your registration):
–Masks, photo ID, and proof of vax required at front desk when entering the building.
–YANA Town Hall will be in the Council Room on 18th floor.
–The Club now has an “Owl” video camera for Zoom hybrid meetings – the Owl will rotate to capture whomever speaking.
Those who are attending in person for our first in-person get together in over a year and a half (!!) are invited to gather for drinks in the Main Lounge after the Town Hall concludes at 7:30pm.
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How Traditional Wisdoms & Faiths Guide Social Justice Work
2021-10-25 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
An open and multi-faceted discussion on how foundational texts and traditions of various religions, faiths, and wisdoms translate into and compel/command engagement in social justice and positive good in the world.
SPEAKERS:

Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson DIV ’90 (Senior Pastor, Grace Baptist Church)
Peter Giblin ’92 (Co-founder & Network Relations Manager, LeCiel Foundation)
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield (President, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership)

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Celebrating Service: 5 Years of the YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship
2021-10-07 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Celebrating Service: 5 Years of the YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship
Thursday, October 7 | 7:00pm ET
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Join Yale Alumni Service Initiatives, Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance (YANA), and Dwight Hall at Yale in celebrating five years of successful partnership expanding opportunities for Yale students to create social change. Building upon the framework of the Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship program that transformed community engagement at Yale in 1968 and has operated for more than 50 years, YANA’s collaborative vision and its networks of support have expanded the program in three key ways: to include seniors who recently graduated, to sponsor engagement with organizations outside of Greater New Haven, and to generally grow the reach and impact of the Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship program.

The joint YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship provides summer funding to Yale undergraduates and recently graduated seniors for public service and justice-oriented positions. Applicants must have a demonstrated financial need and those who face barriers to exploring opportunities in the nonprofit and social sectors are strongly encouraged to apply. Fellows convene for weekly meetings and receive mentoring and guidance from YANA leaders and Dwight Hall’s professional staff.
This panel honors the work that recent YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellows have accomplished and explores the impact that YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellows feel that the program has had on their academic and career trajectory. It will be moderated by Dwight Hall’s Director of Programming and Evaluation, Mark Fopeano.
PANELISTS:
Olivia Paschal ’18
History PhD Candidate, UVA
Trinh Truong ’19
Cofounder, Bakhita Center
Luisa Graden ’20
Fulbright Grantee in Madrid

Virtual Discussion Forum with Duriel E. Harris
2021-10-05 20:00 - 21:00 UTC
YANA Chicago Virtual Discussion Forum with Duriel E. Harris
Editing, Publishing & The U.S. Black Literary Ecosystem
October 5, 2021, 7-8pm CST – RSVP
Please join us for a virtual discussion forum featuring Duriel E. Harris ‘91, performance artist and scholar and Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Illinois State University and Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, moderated by Stephanie Rath ‘96, Chair of YANA Chicago. Duriel will discuss the Obsidian publishing platform and US Black literary ecosystem, the promise of nonprofit partnerships, and the challenges and opportunities for literary publishing in US higher ed at a time of social upheaval. She will also share her experiences as an editor and artist, and explore the role of editing in the arts practice.
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Nonprofit Networking Event
2021-10-01 13:00 - 15:00 UTC
Showcase Your Nonprofit to Yale Students
Friday, October 1 | 1:00-3:00 PM ET
No registration fees; Contact Julia Coppola with questions

Yale Office of Career Strategy invites your organization to participate in Yale’s Nonprofit Networking Event. This event provides your organization a unique opportunity to connect with talented Yale students who are interested in learning about opportunities within the non-profit sector.

With 36% of Yale College graduates securing positions within the areas of non-profit, government, NGO, education, or other public agency, we know that Yale students have a commitment to service. Additionally, Yale has a Summer Experience Award (SEA) to support all Yale undergraduate students on financial aid who have secured an unpaid summer internship with an organization in the Non-Profit, Arts, Sciences, and Government sectors. There were over 300 SEA recipients for the 2021 summer.

If you are unable to attend but want to recruit Yale students, check out these resources for employers

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Envisioning the Future of the American City (YANA Town Hall)
2021-09-29 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
Envisioning the Future of the American City
Wednesday, September 29 | 6:30 PM ET
All welcome to attend; Registration required
Tune in as Jacob Koch ’10 and Manasvi Menon ’07, co-founders of Yale/City, join Yale Professor Elihu Rubin ’99 to share thoughts on re-imagining the American city and Yale’s role in shaping a new urban reality.
Yale/City is a bold new initiative seeking to build a global community of Yale students and alumni engaged in urban studies, policy, and practice. Yale/City will organize programs that convene Yale alumni in related fields including architecture, city planning, real estate, and sustainability.
YANA is pleased to host our first forum with Yale/City and we hope you can join us for what promises to be a riveting conversation.
SPEAKERS:
Professor Elihu Rubin ’99
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Urban Studies at Yale

Manasvi Menon ’07
Yale/City Co-Founder
Principal, UrbanSense

Jacob Koch ’10
Yale/City Co-Founder
Manager – Sustainability, Bloomberg Associates

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Exploring Life Stories
2021-09-28 18:30 - 19:30 UTC
Exploring Life Stories
Experience the intersection of social justice and the arts in this interactive workshop. Deb Gottesman and Buzz Mauro ’84, founders and Co-Executive Directors of The Theatre Lab, Washington, DC’s largest theatre school, will discuss the techniques of The Theatre Lab’s Life Stories program, designed to elevate the voices of people whose stories too often go unheard. In Life Stories, incarcerated youth, people in addiction recovery, wounded veterans, seniors in assisted living, and many others learn to create original dramatic works based on their lived experiences. Attendees will have the opportunity to turn their cameras on and take part in a fun and hopefully enlightening exercise, to demonstrate the work in action. Participation not required, but encouraged!
YANA DC Presentation w/ The Theatre Lab
Tuesday, September 28 | 6:30 PM ET
All welcome to attend; Registration required

Program on Revisiting Educators & Pandemic Challenges
2021-08-25 18:30 - 19:30 UTC
“Education in Fall 2021: Where Do We Go From Here?” YANA Panel

Current Challenges Facing Educational Institutions
This is a conversation you must be a part of.
If you thought last year was tough for education, wait until you hear what many educational institution leaders are facing this year with student and family mental health issues, under-vaccinated populations and break-through infections, staff shortages, and the real consequences of quarantine policies.
Our panelists cover all parts of the education spectrum: from the heavily-resourced Ivy-League world of Yale, to under-resourced community colleges and a K-12 college-prep charter school serving primarily economically disadvantaged scholars, to an urban public school district of 20,000+ students, 80% of whom come from families within a small range of the federal poverty line.
Join us for this incredibly important conversation reflecting the current state of and disparities within education in our country.
PANELISTS:
— Jeremy Chiappetta SOM ’02 (CEO, Blackstone Valley Prep, K-12)
— Meghan Hughes ’88 (President, Community College of Rhode Island)
— Pericles Lewis (Vice Provost for Academic Affairs & VP for Global Strategy, Yale University)
— Leslie Torres-Rodriguez (Superintendent, Hartford Public Schools)
Moderated by Seth Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Finance, Yale School of Management
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YANA Virtual Town Hall
2021-07-28 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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Looking forward to seeing many of you on Wednesday, July 28th!
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YANA Virtual Town Hall
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YANA Town Hall
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 | 6:30 PM EDT
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YANA Virtual Town Hall
2021-06-30 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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Looking forward to seeing many of you on Wednesday, June 30th!
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YANA Town Hall
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 | 6:30 PM EDT

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YANA Virtual Town Hall: Social Impact in New Haven
2021-05-26 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
It’s easy to forget that New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut with an ever-expanding network of business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, and change-makers. Please join us next week to learn about this growing ecosystem and how three Yale alums are boldly advancing entrepreneurship and education within New Haven and beyond.

Wednesday, May 26 | 6:30 PM EDT
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SPEAKERS

Patricia Melton ’83 is Executive Director of New Haven Promise, a scholarship and support program created to promote college education as an aspiration for all New Haven public school students. The long-term mission of New Haven Promise is to leverage education in support of economic development throughout greater New Haven. There are now over 300 college Promise programs across the nation, and, under Patricia’s dynamic leadership, her New Haven organization has emerged as one of the leading Promise initiatives in the US, receiving over $4 million a year from Yale. Peter Salovey sits on her board and is a very active member.

Caroline Smith ‘14 and Margaret Lee ‘14 are co-founders of Collab, a community-centered business accelerator that empowers individuals and families to use entrepreneurship to gain autonomy, build wealth, and shape their communities.

Before Collab, Caroline was the Co-Director of Marketing at SeeClickFix, a civic technology company that connects citizens with their local governments. She also founded New Haven Bike Month, an effort to build bicycle justice through neighborhood empowerment. Currently she is Chair of the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team. She’s received the New Haven Biz Women in Business Award and in 2017 was named to Connecticut Magazine’s 40 Under 40.

Before Collab, Margaret worked at the Yale Entrepreneurship Institute (now the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale) where she managed Yale’s academic year and summer accelerators, overseeing more than 100 student and faculty ventures. She is the former Chair of the Elm City Innovation Collaborative and currently serves as Commissioner of the Economic Development Commission. She received the New Haven Biz Women in Business Award for her work.

YANA Virtual Town Hall
2021-04-28 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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YANA Town Hall
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 | 6:30 PM EDT

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YANA Panel: Promoting Equity & Ownership in Global Development
2021-03-31 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
YANA Panel: Promoting Equity & Ownership in Global Development
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Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2021 | 1:00 PM EDT

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YANA Virtual Town Hall
2021-03-24 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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YANA Town Hall
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 6:30 PM EDT

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YASC and the Arts: The Importance of Arts Education and Programming for Children
2021-03-23 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
YASC and the Arts: The Importance of Arts Education and Programming for Children
Mar. 23, 2021 | 8:00 PM EDT

Art is an important form of communication and an integral part of every student’s education. Most children start out as visual communicators, which makes art one of their first opportunities to make their mark on the world. Art also creates social connections and allows children to communicate in powerful ways.
Join us for this insightful conversation on the transformative power of the arts for children.
Our speakers from the Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMANY) will discuss concepts for delivering virtual arts programming and education to children during the pandemic. Our speakers from Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) will complement the discussion by providing commentary on the impact of the childrens’ arts programming organized during YASC trips.
Founded in 1988 and located in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo, CMANY unites children and artists to create and share ambitious artwork with their communities and the world.
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PANELISTS:
Anne Beidler
Artist, Professor of Art and Art History, Agnes Scott College
Anne Beidler has been on the faculty of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta since 1992, where she is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History. She has been a practicing artist, scholar, and teacher for more than 30 years. Beidler’s work has been selected for inclusion in exhibitions throughout the United States, including The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection in Chicago, The Fine Arts Library at Cornell University, The Hudgens Museum in Atlanta, The Kennedy Museum at Ohio University, and internationally at The Hollar Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic (among others www.abeidler.com). Recently, her work was was included in the international exhibition: The Book as Art: Flight Edition at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport concourse E. Beidler, her husband Jon Neiditz JD ’85, and their two daughters, Hannah and Qiu-ee, have joined YASC trips to China and twice to India.
Seth Cameron
Executive Director, CMANY
Seth Cameron was appointed executive director of Children’s Museum of the Arts in February 2020. An artist, educator, and curator, Cameron co-founded the celebrated artist collective, The Bruce High Quality Foundation (est. 2001), and directed the group’s free art school, BHQFU, from 2009 to 2017. From 2004 to 2007, Cameron served as creative director of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, curating the provocative multi-site exhibition, “A Knock at the Door,” mining artistic censorship in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Cameron has lectured extensively across the U.S., advocating a de-institutionalization of arts education, and has taught theory and practice, intermittently, at his alma mater, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
Georgia Goldberg ’72
Artist, Professor of Art and Architecture
Georgia Goldberg is an artist who trained and practiced initially as an architect. She studied art at Yale College (departmental honors, magna cum laude) and at Princeton University, where she earned a Master of Architecture degree. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and is in collection at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, among others. She teaches art and architecture at colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and has studios in both locations. Her installations and drawings collaborate with natural phenomenon such as soil, wind, water, and light and also imagine planet landscapes. While still concerned with nature’s beauty, she recently began a series of abstract drawings mapping the Underground Railroad, lynchings, and police killings of Blacks. On service trips with YASC, she has taught first to third graders color theory based on the Albers course she took at Yale.
Danielle Lindenberg
Director of Community & School Programs, CMANY
Danielle Lindenberg joined CMA in July 2019 as director of community and school programs. She is an arts administrator and educator, having most recently served as the manager of residency programs at Studio in a School from 2016 to 2019. She started her career as a sixth grade teacher at PS 123, an elementary school in central Harlem, through Teach For America. After leaving the classroom and working for a number of years on staff at Teach For America, Lindenberg returned to the arts and attended Columbia University, where she earned a master’s degree in Arts Administration in 2015. Her thesis focused on examining arts education practices and programming at cultural institutions across New York City. She also holds a master’s in teaching from Pace University and a bachelor’s in Art History from the University of Wisconsin.
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Arikha Moses ’98 PhD
Arikha Moses spent more than 20 years as a serial entrepreneur and executive for medical device companies. She was the founder and chief security officer of TyRx (now Medtronic Infection Control) and Galatea Surgical. She has commercialized multiple drug-eluting biodegradable implantable devices that have been used in millions of patients worldwide. She currently serves as an advisor and investor to early-stage companies dedicated to innovation in biomedicine and sustainability. She serves on the board of YASC and as an agent for the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni fund. Moses received a PhD in Chemistry from Yale, a BA with honors in chemistry from Brandeis University and has more than 40 issued patents.

YANA Evening Tea with Amir Pasic (Dean, Indiana University School of Philanthropy)
2021-03-11 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
YANA Evening Tea with Amir Pasic ’85
Eugene R. Tempel Dean & Professor of Philanthropic Studies
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

Join the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance for an intimate Evening Tea with Amir Pasic ‘85, the Eugene R. Tempel Dean and Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. We will explore the history and role of philanthropy in the United States as well as current trends and issues. Audience members are encouraged to bring and submit questions.
Thursday, Mar. 11, 2021 | 6:00 PM EST
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What's It Like to Work In . . .? An Introduction to Social Impact Areas of Practice
2021-03-04 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
What’s It Like to Work In . . . ?
An Introduction to Social Impact Areas of Practice
Mar. 4, 2021 | 6:00 PM ET

Interested in a career in social impact or meeting other alumni who work in your field? Hear from alumni working in a variety of nonprofit and social impact fields, including arts organizations, poverty alleviation, government, education, and more!
Back by popular demand, YANA will be hosting another networking session with breakout rooms based on topical areas of interest. Come meet fellow Yalies to explore career areas or share resources and ideas.
When you register, tell us the social impact area you are interested in. There will be flexibility at the beginning and during the program to change rooms.
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