Yale Postdoctoral Trainees

Mental Health: Overview of Yale Personal Wellness Signature Benefits

Representatives from Optum will provide an overview of Yale new personal wellness benefits including mental health related benefits available to Yale employees and their family members. Resources include the Sanvello app that offers clinical techniques to help dial down the symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression; assistance with securing an appointment with a provider; and more. The session will include time for Q&A. Employees can learn more on the Yale Signature Benefits page in advance of the session.

A World Refugee Day Event: Poetry Slam & Storytelling

In honor of World Refugee Day, IRIS & Sanctuary Kitchen are partnering to celebrate our vibrant refugee & immigrant community from around the world.
Enjoy performances by students from IRIS & chefs of Sanctuary Kitchen as they share stories & poems on the theme of “Emerging.”
This event would not be complete without international food! Purchase a Sanctuary Kitchen snack box of Cheese & Spinach Fatayer, Hummus & crudite. Order now for pick up at the event!

We Were Always Here: Celebrating ALL Women at Yale

Women have always contributed to the life and history of Yale University. This exhibition honors these women — the named and unnamed, the seen and unseen, to applaud their heroic efforts that have contributed to and enriched Yale University immensely.

VIRTUAL: Yale Alumni LIVE: Joe English ’17

In recognition and celebration of Pride Month, please join us to meet Joe English ‘17, former president of the YCC and founder of Hope in a Box, a national nonprofit that brings diverse and inclusive curriculum, training, and literature to hundreds of public schools in all 50 states. Joe previously worked for Generation.org, the global education-to-employment NGO, and for McKinsey & Company as a consultant focusing on education and economic development.

VIRTUAL: James Baldwin’s Queer Revolution: A Lecture and Conversation with Kevin Quinn ’01

James Baldwin’s position as one of the most important voices of the Civil Rights movement is uncontested. Indeed, he might be the most eloquent of our prophets, the singular critical eye that saw race relations in the American context for what they were, what they are, and what they will always be. But the range of his corrective lens, as it were, also extends to the unprecedented ways in which he changed the queer landscape. His formidable Giovanni’s Room appeared at a time when few American writers could even reference, let alone write explicitly about, queer desire.

Food As Resistance: Reclaiming the African-American Food Narrative

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group and the Working Women’s Network Health & Wellness subcommittee for a presentation with Registered Dietician Sadé Meeks on Food As Resistance.

Sadé Meeks will reclaim the African American food narrative through discussions around cultural foods and nutrition. Additionally, she will address systemic practices that have negatively impacted the food systems and health of minority communities.

Arm Toning Workout

Did you know that you can tone your arms without floor exercises, planks, or push-ups? Join the Working Women’s Network, Future Leaders of Yale, Yale Latino Networking Group, and Asian Network at Yale for a fit and fun arm toning workshop with Shana Schneider, creator of the Fitstyle Your Life approach to fitness. Attendees will learn how to build a strength training habit, so that it fits your life, and participate in arm strength training exercises with hand weights and a special kind of movement to music called PLAY arms!

WWN Book Club Discussion: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Join us for the next meeting of the WWN Book Club. We will be reading City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. We hope you will join us for a great discussion. New members are always welcome!

Book description: Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.

Homeownership Basics Workshop

Are you thinking about buying a home? Do you want to find out if it’s the right step for you? Please join the Future Leaders of Yale, Yale African American Affinity Group, and the Yale Latino Networking Group for a home buying basics workshop with Professor Cameron LaPoint, Assistant Professor of Finance in the School of Management, and Alina Colossale, Early Career Development Specialist in Staffing.

VIRTUAL: Transcending Conflict Through Song (day 2)

Join the Yale International Alliance and the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors for an interactive session on Transcending Conflict Through Song with Micah Hendler ‘11, founder and artistic director of The Jerusalem Youth Chorus.
In this interactive and participatory 90-minute session for the Yale Alumni community, Micah will dig deep into the musical bridge-building methods this Israeli-Palestinian chorus has pioneered in Jerusalem and explore their global applications as manifested through the work of Raise Your Voice Labs.