This workshop, led by Maria Trumpler and Seth Wallace, from the Office of LGBTQ Resources, will help you reflect on the way that space, customary practices, and written materials in your work area can be made more inclusive for transgender and non-binary colleagues, students, and visitors. We promise you will leave with a concrete to-do list tailored to the functions of your department.

Please join the Dean’s office for lunch at Yale SOM’s first 50WomenatYale150 event of 2020! Pamela G. Carlton MBA/JD ‘80 launched Springboard – Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership, LLC where she has been President since 2003. Springboard is an executive and organizational leadership consulting firm. Springboard conducts research and assessments on inclusive leadership and diversity, develops training and professional development seminars, and provides consulting and executive coaching to organizations in the corporate and non profit sectors.

The Spring 2020 Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice will be delivered on February 24th by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. Barber is a pastor and social justice advocate building a broad-based grassroots movement, grounded in the moral tenets of faith-based communities and the constitution, to confront systemic racism, poverty, environmental devastation, the war economy and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism in America today.

Quiara Alegría Hudes is a playwright and author originally from West Philly with roots in Boriken. Her play Water by the Spoonful won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her Tony-winning Broadway musical In the Heights, written with Lin-Manuel Miranda, will soon be a major motion picture, adapted for the screen by Hudes. Together with her cousin Sean, Hudes cofounded Emancipated Stories, so people behind bars can share one page of their life story with those on the “outside.” See all the Emancipated Stories on Instagram at @emancipated_stories_project.

The office of LGBTQ Resources and the LGBTQ Affinity group host lunches for parents of LGBTQ children (and their allies) every third Thursday of each month. All parents of LGBTQ children–as well as LGBTQ staff & faculty and allies–are invited to share this space for support, community, and conversation.