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2020 Making Strides of Greater New Haven

This years drive thru event begins at at Lighthouse Point Park, 2 Lighthouse Point Ter, New Haven, CT at 10:30 a.m. on October 18th, and will end at 11:30 a.m. We encourage all teams, participants and survivors attending to decorate their car on the 18th of October and drive a symbolic pre-determined lap throughout the park. Pictures next to the start and finish line will be taken via event staff and posted to the events Facebook page. Exiting the vehicles will be prohibited. Join the Yale Affinity Group Team, and/or to help with our fundraising efforts.

Gordon Grand Fellowship Online Lecture: A Conversation with Anne Wojcicki YC’96, CEO & Co-founder, 23andMe, and President Peter Salovey

Please join us on Thursday, October 8 from 4:15 - 5:15 p.m. for the Gordon Grand Lecture at Yale: A Conversation with Anne Wojcicki YC ’96, CEO & Co-founder, 23andMe, and Yale University President, Peter Salovey. Yale School of Management Dean, Kerwin K. Charles will host.
The Gordon Grand Fellowship Lecture series brings prominent business leaders to Yale University each year to discuss their careers, philosophies, and expertise with the Yale and New Haven communities. We are delighted to welcome Anne back to Yale as our inaugural virtual Gordon Grand Fellow.

Mondays at Beinecke: Edwin C. Schroeder on Dorothy Porter Wesley

Mondays at Beinecke returns, virtually! Mondays at 4:00 pm during the academic year, all are cordially invited to gallery talks, online for now, with Beinecke Library staff, researchers, and friends.
Monday, October 5, 4 pm: Beinecke Library Director Edwin C. Schroeder will speak about the Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers. Zoom registration required: https://bit.ly/2Eu6vcG

VIRTUAL: Dharmic Traditions and Social Justice Activism

Interested in social justice activism as an expression of your faith? Join us for an evening with Tahil Sharma, United Religions Initiative Regional Coordinator and a Director of the University of Southern California Hindu Students Organization.

Tahil will share his personal journey as a gay American-born Hindu and Sikh working in the social justice and chaplaincy/spiritual care-giving domains.

VIRTUAL: Racism and Anti-Racism Among Asian Americans: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Solidarity, Complicity, and Our Future

Our third event in the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) x Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) virtual event series will be moderated by Professor Daniel Martinez HoSang, tenured Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and American Studies. This will be a panel event featuring alumni Professor Janelle Wong (GSAS ’01), Odette Wang (YC ’20) and current student, Lakshmi Amin (YC ’21) in conversation about how varied racialized experiences and positionality impacts how Asian Americans engage with various social issues.

The Herald's One Seat Over presents: Where Are You, Where Are You Going?

This is the premier episode of The Herald’s new web-series, One Seat Over. In it, students hope to create a better understanding of the many definitions behind the term “Yalie,” sharing stories from their lives all across campus and in their years spent before arriving. This week, each storyteller will reflect on the place they currently in, be it New Haven, Hawaii, or all over the world.

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