Join the annual Run for Refugees hosted by the Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS), a non-profit agency whose mission is to work with refugees and immigrants to become self-sufficient and integrated into their new communities.
To register, please follow the link here (make sure to sign up for the in-person run!): https://runsignup.com/Race/CT/NewHaven/IRISRunforRefugees
Celebrate International Women’s Day with Women United, Hopkins School, and Yale University Office of Diversity and Inclusion; featuring Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Investigative Reporter, Andrea Elliott.
Please join the Future Leaders of Yale, Working Women’s Network, and Yale African American Affinity Group for an information session with Brittany Baines, Founder and Executive Director of Phenomenal I Am, Inc. (PIA).
Phenomenal I Am is a youth-led organization with the mission to address the emotional, social, and overall student engagement needs of “at-risk” female youth ages 9-18 of New Haven, CT.
Join the Asian Network at Yale, Future Leaders of Yale, and Yale Repertory Theatre on Zoom for a Q&A with members of the cast and creative team of Susan Soon He Stanton’s Today is My Birthday. Production Dramaturg Jisun Kim (David Geffen School of Drama ’22) will moderate.
Today is My Birthday runs at Yale Rep through Saturday, February 19. We invite members of Yale’s affinity groups for this special post-show event to hear more about the play and its company.
Join us as we read and discuss a new graphic novel created by artist Nealie Ngo based on Grace Chiang’s story about family healing. Healthcare providers Eunice Yuen, Alice Shen, Jamille Rancourt, and Nichole Roxas will lead a discussion about intergenerational trauma and mental health in an AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) family. This panel is hosted by Yale Compassionate Home, Action Together (CHATogether) and Yale-China.
The discovery of gold in California in 1848 drew thousands of people from across the United States, Latin America, and China. The Gold Rush permanently changed the landscape, demographics, and economy of the nation and provoked cultural tensions among the settlers.
The Yale University Art Gallery has a renowned collection of Yorùbá sculpture from West Africa. Opening in fall 2022, the special exhibition Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition is dedicated to the workshop of the Nigerian artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè (ca. 1885–1975). In celebration of this upcoming event, master carver Lukman Àlàdé Fákẹ́yẹ (born Ibadan, Nigeria, 1983) guides a close-looking session via Zoom with Cathy Silverman, Assistant Conservator of Objects and Furniture.
Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a book club discussion of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.
The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths she must go to—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.
Register by Friday, June 24th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!
For Lunar New Year, the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale (ACSSY), the OISS International Spouses and Partners at Yale (ISPY), and Yale-China are compiling stories of heritage, culture, art, and celebration. Their stories explore themes of joy + comfort, arts + culture, and family + homecoming. These stories embrace the distance and longing that many international families feel during this homecoming time of the year and the steps they take to create new traditions in their New Haven community.
Join the Yale African American Affinity Group, Working Women’s Network, and Yale Latino Networking Group for a conversation with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa about her new book A Woman of Endurance.
A Woman of Endurance illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves. It is ultimately, a novel of the triumph of the human spirit even under the most brutal of conditions.
