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The First Growing Season: Saving and Investment Strategies for Young Adult Years

Join the Future Leaders of Yale, Yale African American Affinity Group, Yale Latino Networking Group, and Working Women’s Network for the next Building Wealth Generator Series event entitled “The First Growing Season: Saving and Investment Strategies for Young Adult Years”. We will discuss step by step building emergency fund, maximizing 401(k) contributions, and step by step building investments.

Guest speakers will include Stephen R. Vaughan and Eric Judge, CFP. This event will be moderated by Elvin Turner, JD, MBA.

YAAA Book Club Discussion - On Juneteenth

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a book club discussion of On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed.

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.

Register by Friday, May 13th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group and Working Women’s Network for a conversation with Tomiko Brown-Nagin about her new book Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality. This event will be moderated by James Forman Jr., J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Register by Friday, February 25th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!

Achieving Goals Through Adversity

Join DiversAbility at Yale, Future Leaders of Yale, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and Yale Athletics for a discussion with Aaron Golub about how you can overcome any obstacle or challenge in front of you, and turn your disadvantages into your advantages.

Aaron will share his story of becoming the first legally blind D1 athlete to play a game, how he achieved success in sports, and how your team and business can succeed no matter what. He will also discuss the importance of staying motivated and having the right perspective to accomplish your goals.

IRIS Run for Refugess

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

Celebration for International Women’s Day

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.

Phenomenal I Am Information Session

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.

Today is My Birthday Yale Rep Talk Back

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.

Lunarfest 2022: Healing for the Whole Family, a Graphic Novel about AAPI Mental Health

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.

E-Conversation, In Search of Gold Mountain: Chinese Immigration and the California Gold Rush

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.