Alumni

Disability & Climate Change: Why Resilient and Inclusive Policies Matter?

Join the Yale DiversAbility Alumni Group and Yale Blue Green for a livestream forum with our panel of experts and scholars to discuss the intersectionality of disability and climate change. Questions we will address and explore include:
What is the current state of environmental policy?
Why are resilient, inclusive policies important?
Who is impacted by inaccessible and exclusionary planning and infrastructure?
How do these policies impact everyone?
What actions can be taken to help make positive policy changes?

VIRTUAL: "Gender-Neutral" Public Policies and Their Gendered Consequences in China

The progress of gender equality in China has attracted a lot of attention in the recent decade. As China has gotten richer, many people expected that the gender inequality situation would improve. However, if we compare China with other countries in the world using the Global Gender Gap Index, China ranked in just the 45th percentile in gender equality in 2006, and has continued to regress over the past decade. Eliminating gender inequality benefits China in multiple important ways. Most family and aging policies in China are gender-blind and are often framed as gender-neutral.

VIRTUAL: A Prideful Conversation with Sara Gilbert

@YaleInHollywood and the Yale Alumni Association present a Prideful Conversation with @TheSaraGilbert
Join us for a conversation with actress, director and producer, Sara Gilbert. We will discuss her journey to Yale, her Hollywood career from actress to producer, lessons learned, and find out what keeps Sara inspired.
Streaming Live via the Yale Alumni Association YouTube Channel

A World Refugee Day Event: Poetry Slam & Storytelling

In honor of World Refugee Day, IRIS & Sanctuary Kitchen are partnering to celebrate our vibrant refugee & immigrant community from around the world.
Enjoy performances by students from IRIS & chefs of Sanctuary Kitchen as they share stories & poems on the theme of “Emerging.”
This event would not be complete without international food! Purchase a Sanctuary Kitchen snack box of Cheese & Spinach Fatayer, Hummus & crudite. Order now for pick up at the event!

We Were Always Here: Celebrating ALL Women at Yale

Women have always contributed to the life and history of Yale University. This exhibition honors these women — the named and unnamed, the seen and unseen, to applaud their heroic efforts that have contributed to and enriched Yale University immensely.

VIRTUAL: Yale Alumni LIVE: Joe English ’17

In recognition and celebration of Pride Month, please join us to meet Joe English ‘17, former president of the YCC and founder of Hope in a Box, a national nonprofit that brings diverse and inclusive curriculum, training, and literature to hundreds of public schools in all 50 states. Joe previously worked for Generation.org, the global education-to-employment NGO, and for McKinsey & Company as a consultant focusing on education and economic development.

VIRTUAL: James Baldwin’s Queer Revolution: A Lecture and Conversation with Kevin Quinn ’01

James Baldwin’s position as one of the most important voices of the Civil Rights movement is uncontested. Indeed, he might be the most eloquent of our prophets, the singular critical eye that saw race relations in the American context for what they were, what they are, and what they will always be. But the range of his corrective lens, as it were, also extends to the unprecedented ways in which he changed the queer landscape. His formidable Giovanni’s Room appeared at a time when few American writers could even reference, let alone write explicitly about, queer desire.

VIRTUAL: Transcending Conflict Through Song (day 2)

Join the Yale International Alliance and the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors for an interactive session on Transcending Conflict Through Song with Micah Hendler ‘11, founder and artistic director of The Jerusalem Youth Chorus.
In this interactive and participatory 90-minute session for the Yale Alumni community, Micah will dig deep into the musical bridge-building methods this Israeli-Palestinian chorus has pioneered in Jerusalem and explore their global applications as manifested through the work of Raise Your Voice Labs.

VIRTUAL: Dean Robert Blocker & Hsing-ay Hsu on Music in Our Lives

Tune in to this conversation about the people and ideas behind the music. Robert Blocker (Dean, Yale School of Music) and Hsing-ay Hsu (pianist and Steinway Artist) explore their musical spirit, topical issues that musicians continue to confront across cultures and borders, and creativity as a source of courage and empowerment through Yale-China Midday Musical Moments.

VIRTUAL: Dean Robert Blocker & Hsing-ay Hsu on Musical Empowerment

Tune in to this conversation about the people and ideas behind the music. Robert Blocker (Dean, Yale School of Music) and Hsing-ay Hsu (pianist and Steinway Artist) explore their musical spirit, topical issues that musicians continue to confront across cultures and borders, and creativity as a source of courage and empowerment through Yale-China Midday Musical Moments.