Please join the Future Leaders of Yale (FLY) affinity group for this year’s virtual celebration of the outstanding recipients of the FLY Recognition Awards. All are welcome to help us celebrate these inspiring individuals. Congratulations to our awardees!
Emma Brennan-Wydra – Workplace Champion
Martha Cedeno-Ross – Community Leader
Marissa Pearson – Force for Enrichment
Angelina Stackpole - Advocate for Belonging
Join the Working Women’s Network and Yale African American Affinity Group for a book club discussion on Sing Her Name: A Novel. Follow the path of two musically gifted women whose lives overlap across the boundaries of time.
This third novel by Rosalyn Story, whose critically acclaimed books treat the central role of Black people in American music, is her best and most rewarding yet.
Register by Friday, June 24th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!
At any given moment, an estimated 40.3 million people are being victimized in situations of trafficking and exploitation (including forced marriage) worldwide. 25% of these are children.
Please join the Future Leaders of Yale, LGBTQ Affinity Group, Working Women’s Network, Yale African American Affinity Group, and Yale Latino Networking Group for an information session with Love146.
Attendees will learn about child trafficking, vulnerabilities that make a child more susceptible, programs that Love146 offers, and how to help/get involved.
Visit the Beinecke Library website for daily hours and other visitor information.
The Beinecke Library marks the 247th anniversary of the nation’s founding with a special display of vital documents of United States history from Yale Library special collections.
Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a discussion with the President & CEO of Sickle Cell Disease Association of America/Michelle’s House about the history and updates of a disease that affects the black and brown communities globally.
In honor of Juneteenth this year, YAAA has invited Jeffrey A. Fletcher, owner and collector of the Ruby and Calvin Fletcher African American History Museum, to discuss the true meaning of Juneteenth through actual artifacts from the last 1800’s.
Join the Yale African American Affinity Group as it explores the Kiyama Movement’s primary focus and purpose for black males. Founder and CEO Michael A. Jefferson Esq. will discuss the principles and 5 steps to creating a better society throughout the world starting with individual improvement.
The New Haven Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. and Epsilon Iota Iota Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. invites you to the 10th Annual FREE Market and Health Symposium on Saturday June 11th from 9am to 2pm (rain or shine) at The Dixwell Q House, 197 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven. Free food, free clothing, free shoes, free household items, free toys, free health screening, and much more! Stop by the YAAA and YLNG table for free blood pressure screenings and swag!
Yale University President Peter Salovey presents the 2022 awards in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.”
Trethewey will be introduced by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on the Windham-Campbell YouTube channel
CCAM is thrilled to be working with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas to present director and immersive artist Tamara Shogaolu’s augmented-reality installation “Un(re)solved” — a collaboration between her studio, Ado Ato Pictures, and FRONTLINE (PBS). You can experience the installation on Saturday and Sunday, June 11 and 12, on the New Haven Green. The “Un(re)solved” installation is part of a multiplatform initiative by FRONTLINE (PBS) that “examin[es] a federal effort to grapple with America’s legacy of racist killings.”
