Join the Asian Network at Yale & Women’s Working Network for an interactive session with Sheraz Iqbal, Assistant Director of the Asian American Cultural Center. Learn about obstacles leaders face when facilitating a meeting and how to address these obstacles. Gain new skills applicable to your everyday job/leadership position at Yale! To register, go to: http://bit.ly/2NQ3QL1
What:
A Borrowed Dress, hawkish leaders, a war of proxies and the bargains on the future lives of Syrian refugees. Where is home for them?
Who:
A conversation with Syrian-Turkish journalist and 2019 World Fellow Onur Burçak Belli followed by an hour-long documentary screening of ‘The Borrowed Dress”
Why:
Mona Bijoor is a partner at King Circle Capital LLC and the founder of JOOR.
Julius Krein is the editor of American Affairs, a quarterly journal of public policy and political thought founded to provide a forum for people who believe that the conventional partisan platforms are no longer relevant to the most pressing challenges facing the United States. Mr. Krein has contributed to publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Times Literary Supplement.
As if being away from home isn’t stressful enough. Add new food, homework, new friends, FOMO, and no sleep to the mix. Join 2019 World Fellows Rebecca Sullivan (food) Bev Ho (medicine) and Simi Adeagbo (fitness) in a casual conversation about three core areas to help you survive your time at Yale. Eating right, avoiding bad habits, sleeping well, and exercising all on a budget. Plenty of tips and tricks to take away!
Join Grace Hopper College for a conversation with Olympian, 2019 World Fellow, and advocate Simidele Adeagbo. Simidele is best known for becoming the first African and Black woman to compete in Olympic Skeleton. She has also led innovative marketing campaigns at Nike, and today is a popular keynote speaker who helps girls build leadership skills through the uplifting power of sport. Simidele has been hailed by the New York Times as “a role model for Africa and beyond.”
This half-day workshop is designed to train staff who input content into websites how to do so in ways that meet Yale’s Web Accessibility Policy. Note: This workshop is primarily for people who create content through tools such as Wordpress or YaleSites Drupal.
If you add content to your websites, chances are you’re also responsible for managing social media for your department or unit. Social media platforms like YouTube/Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest can present unique challenges for users with disabilities, many of which are beyond your control.
Have media you need to caption, but unsure what your responsibilities are for captioning under Yale’s Accessibility Policy, where to begin, or what options are available? This two-hour training covers paid options for captioning your media through our Preferred Captioning Vendors 3Play Media and Rev.com, as well as free options, like YouTube. Attendees will leave understanding their obligations under Yale’s policy, the differences between the major captioning file types, and how to create, edit, and sync captions to their media for both Canvas courses and websites.
This beginner’s document accessibility workshop is designed to train staff in the basic methods used for making Word documents, PowerPoint Presentations, and PDFs digitally accessible, for inclusion on university websites or for university-related business, including teaching, student services, and other administrative support. It is appropriate for anyone interested in learning how to make documents used in everyday university business more accessible and will cover the fundamentals of document creation and remediation.
