General Public

IMPACT 2: Writing For Change: The Power of the Op-ed

Something bugs you. Excites you. Compels you to act. But how? How do you share your expertise or passion about a topic and try to change the world or, at least, the way some people think?
In this workshop, we’ll discuss how to get your voice onto the page and your ideas onto the national stage. We’ll cover the key components of great opinion essays, the best way to approach an outlet, working with an editor, and review a few attendees’ pieces. (Pieces of no more than 750 words need to be submitted by March 8 and will be selected by the workshop leader.)

VIRTUAL: IMPACT 2: How to Tell Your Story In Your Voice

Stories are powerful communication tools that can connect us and move us to action. Participants in this workshop will gain a basic understanding of the science of storytelling and what to consider when creating a story. We will then use Marshall Ganz’s model to help all participants draft a short “story of self.”

VIRTUAL: Innovator's Toolkit: Branding & Gender Equality with Liz Giorgi from soona

Elizabeth (Liz) Giorgi is a media entrepreneur and Emmy Award winner. In this workshop, she discusses branding and gender equality.
Elizabeth (Liz) Giorgi is currently the CEO and co-founder of soona, a same-day photo and video service that helps brands get professional, custom content for less than the price of stock content. She is a passionate advocate for women and is also the creator of the Candor Clause, an open-source legal agreement to help create gender equity in venture financing for startups.

VIRTUAL: WE@Yale Women Innovators Series: Rebecca Minkoff

Join WE@Yale to hear from Rebecca Minkoff an industry leader in accessible luxury handbags, accessories, footwear and apparel.
The WE@Yale Women Innovators speaker series is designed to foster community discussion, idea sharing, and best practices in support of Yale women and non-binary femme entrepreneurs and innovators. Community members of all genders are welcome to attend these talks, which are free and open to the public.

Seriously Funny: Humor, Satire, and the Art of Protest with Stephen Duncombe

Stephen Duncombe is an author, professor and co-founder of the Center for Artistic Activism, where he has trained activists and artists around the world to be both more effective and affective in their protests. Even when protesting issues that are deadly serious, activists have long used humor to break down barriers and build affective solidarities with audiences, deploying critical satire to highlight the absurdity or brutality of the status quo. But humor can also have a prophetic function: demonstrating, through laughter and jubilation, what a better world might look like.

VIRTUAL: IMPACT 2: The Fine Art of Listening

In today’s busy and often contentious world, listening is as important an art as making yourself heard. This workshop provides the tools and skills to make you a better listener and help you practice effective listening skills. Encounter fewer misunderstandings, resolve more conflicts, and be more impactful by learning how to truly listen.
Joyce Ann Mercer

VIRTUAL: IMPACT 2: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Are you ready to make an IMPACT? Join the Yale Alumni Association for IMPACT 2, a series of virtual workshops, panels, lectures, and personal stories that showcase and amplify the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This powerful virtual series, tailor-made for our turbulent, world-shifting times, will include:
• Panel discussions that bring together experts to discuss new approaches to criminal justice reform, how healthcare inequities come to be, the future of the disability and environmental justice movements, and more.

Mondays at Beinecke: Sketches of the Amistad Captives & Contemporary Commemoration

The Beinecke Library stewards a set of 22 pencil drawings of the Amistad captives as they awaited trial in New Haven, 1839-40. The sketches were done by William H. Townsend, a New Havener who was about 18 years old when he made the drawings. George Miles of the Beinecke Library will discuss the drawings. and Joy Burns, a member of the contemporary Amistad Committee, will discuss the resonance of this event in history for New Haven and the nation today and share efforts to commemorate the Amistad now and for the future.

Virtual Exhibit Opening - "Silent Fire: A Digital Exhibition featuring Works By Women and About Women"

Join us for a free and public virtual exhibition gathering where we unveil Silent Fire | A Digital Art Exhibition featuring musical and artistic works by womxn and about womxn. A tour of the exhibition and accompanying panel discussion will be the main focus of the evening as we engage with the music, art, and collaborators.
If art, music, and female empowerment are your thing, this event is worth coming to. And, if they aren’t? All the more reason to check it out.
About the Project

Conversation, Beads that Speak: Learning the Language of South African Beadwork

The Yale University Art Gallery has recently acquired an important collection of beadwork from South Africa. Beadwork has been a core element of personal decoration in this region since the 16th century, when traders from present-day Maputo, Mozambique, first began visiting the communities now known as Nguni (Ndebele, Swati, Xhosa, Zulu) and Sotho. The 93 items of dress and adornment that make up the collection were created between 1850 and 1910, a period when a massive influx of glass beads from Europe inspired a generation of female artists to develop innovative techniques and designs.