Dwight Hall at Yale

Post-Summer Planning
2024-08-01 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Register here!

Learn how to integrate your summer experience with larger academic and professional plans. In this workshop, you will have the chance to reflect on your experience and consider opportunities to continue your work.

This event is co-hosted with Yale’s Office of Fellowships and Funding and open to any students who pursued summer fellowships or projects in the social sector.

Dwight Hall Service Bazaar
2024-09-07 13:00 - 15:00
Looking to get involved with community service, but don’t know where to start? ✨

Dwight Hall will be hosting a bazaar 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 1𝐏𝐌-3𝐏𝐌 𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬!

You’ll have the chance to connect with representatives from 70+ member groups — offering a wide range of service opportunities, from service in English language tutoring to leading summer camps that provide support to children!

Learn more about Dwight Hall’s member groups and programs here: https://dwighthall.org/member-groups-and-programs/

Voter Registration Day Volunteering at Columbus House - Dwight Hall Service Series
2024-09-17 09:00 - 20:00
Interested in political engagement with New Haven as we approach the election? Come volunteer at Columbus House next Tuesday, September 17, between 9am-2pm or 4-8pm, and assist with voter registration for housing-insecure residents! Basic training will be provided by on-site staff. You can learn more about this event and register at https://cglink.me/2dA/r2278732.

DeCARbonize theOceans Climate Rally
2024-09-20 16:00 - 17:30
Join New Haven Climate Movement for a climate rally calling for immediate action to reduce transportation negative impacts on the oceans. All are welcome and invited to make signs.

The Rally, which is part of NHCM’s DeCARbonize the Oceans Campaign, particularly supports the passage by the Board of Alders of the Transportation Transformation Resolution. Learn more at newhavenclimatemovement@gmail.com or on Instagram.

Endeavor Global Campus Visit - Information Session and Coffee Chats
2024-09-25 12:15 - 15:30
Are you looking for life-changing summer experience with a global nonprofit based in NYC?

Following the remarkable success of 2023 and 2024 intern cohorts from Yale College, Endeavor is excited to revisit campus to talk with undergraduates about careers in global entrepreneurship, venture capital, nonprofit work, and more. Meet with professionals and alumni to learn more about the organization and hear about their past interns’ work.

About Endeavor:

Endeavor is the leading global community of, by, and for high-impact entrepreneurs – scale-up founders who dream bigger, scale faster, and pay it forward. Our core belief is that entrepreneurs are the single best way to transform economies around the world: with the right community, mentorship, and investment, these same individuals form the building blocks for thriving, dynamic economies in emerging and underserved markets around the world.

There are two events, both co-hosted by TSAI City and Office of Career Strategy:

Wednesday September 25 – 12:15 – 1:15pmInformation Session (with pizza) – RSVP here

Wednesday September 25 – 1:30 – 3:30pm1:1 Coffee Chats – RSVP here

The Hijrah Walk: Retracing the Prophetic Footsteps from Makkah to Medina with Dr. Bilal Hassam (Founder, The Muslim Agency, UK/South Africa)
2024-09-27 19:00 - 20:30
HQ 136 320 York Street [Adeni Chai and Sweets will be served]

The migration of the Prophet Muhammad from Makkah to Medina is one of the most iconic spiritual journeys in sacred history. With the aid of historians, geographers and intrepid adventurers, the exact route of that migration has now been plotted and replicated.

Dr. Bilal Hasaam, along with 12 others, recreated the journey earlier this year. We delve into history and witness the legacy of the Prophet’s momentous migration brought to life through film and discussion. Following in the exact footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad on the migration route from Makkah to Medina, they visited the same landmarks and locations, mirroring the Prophet’s journey 1,400 years ago.

Experience the culmination of this remarkable expedition with the US premiere of the trip documentary followed by a captivating presentation and conversation with Dr. Hassam.

Presented by the Muslim Leadership Lab at Dwight Hall and the Muslim Life Program at the Yale Chaplain’s Office.

Dwight Hall Family Weekend Library Cafe
2024-09-28 15:00 - 17:00
Looking to wind down from the chaos of family weekend? Come stop by Dwight Hall for cookies 🍪 and coffee ☕️ + chit chat about all things community and service!

We look forward to seeing you and your families there!

WHEN: 3-5PM on September 28thWHERE: Dwight Hall Library (67 High Street)

Co-Working and Clothing Sort
2024-10-02 17:00 - 20:00
Join us for a spooky movie, baked goods, and a clothing donation sort this Wednesday at Dwight Hall, anytime from 5-8pm! While enjoying the movie and feasting on delicious snacks, we’ll be sorting clothes to deliver to New Haven’s housing insecure. As we approach the winter, this work is extremely important. Bring your work and a friend along if you’d like!

RSVP required: https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/dwighthallss/rsvp_boot?id=2281575

Feel free to reach out to Allie Lopez at allie.lopez@yale.edu if you have any questions. We hope to see you on Wednesday!

Vote for the Change: New Haven Registrar of Voters
2024-10-03 12:00 - 13:00
Please join the NAACP and ATBC for a zoom call on Thursday, October 3rd at noon. The New Haven Registrar of Voters is presenting a one hour talk aimed at community leaders and others interested in helping folks exercise their right to vote. The talk is aimed at training leaders across Connecticut- but all are welcome- so feel free to share it in your bulletins.

Pre-registration is required for this Zoom Meeting on Thursday, October 3rd at noon.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Register here: https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsf-isqjgjGdSq0NNX_rhplHZs8IbUGEW9

Or use the QR code on the flyer.

Ask OCS at Dwight Hall: Drop-In Office Hours
2024-10-04 14:00 - 15:30
Join the Office of Career Strategy and Dwight Hall for the first in a series of drop-in office hours centered on demystifying common good and creative careers! Confused about job and internship application cycles? Want to learn how to better network with alumni in your fields of interest? Drop by on Friday, Oct. 4th between 2 and 3:30 pm to share your questions alongside students with similar interests.

This event is hosted by Jorimel Zaldivar, Senior Associate Director for Common Good Careers at OCS. Bring your friends and enjoy coffee and pastries while chatting about all aspects of professional development!

Ask OCS at Dwight Hall: Drop-in Office Hours
2024-10-11 14:00 - 16:30
Join the Office of Career Strategy and Dwight Hall for drop-in office hours centered on demystifying common good and creative careers! Confused about job and internship application cycles? Want to learn how to better network with alumni in your fields of interest? Drop by between 2 and 4:30 pm to share your questions alongside students with similar interests.

This event is hosted by Jorimel Zaldivar, Senior Associate Director for Common Good Careers at OCS. Bring your friends!

Volunteer with Sunrise Cafe!
2024-10-22 06:00 - 09:00, 2024-10-29 06:00 - 09:00, 2024-11-05 06:00 - 09:00, 2024-11-12 06:00 - 09:00
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Start your morning off on a great note! Join Dwight Hall Tuesday mornings to volunteer at Sunrise Cafe. Volunteers will meet in front of Dwight Hall at 6:00am, walk together to Sunrise Cafe, and will return to campus by 9:00am.

Volunteers are strongly encouraged to wear N95 masks during service.

Sunrise Cafe has been serving breakfast without charge to New Haven’s homeless and hungry since 2015. Each weekday morning, the Cafe welcomes guests to the undercroft of St. Paul and St. James, near Wooster Square and three blocks south of the New Haven Green with white tablecloths, flowers and a rotating menu of fresh, warm, nutritious home-cooked food. Your generosity opens our doors.

Cheerful volunteers take each order individually, deliver the breakfast to our guest and help our paid chef in the kitchen. Thelma Ragsdale, Operations Manager, and our volunteers ensure every guest is warmly welcomed.

Sunrise Cafe is uniquely welcoming and secure, based on trust and mutual respect, and the rapport built between the volunteer servers and our guests. With a warm welcome and just two rules – no drugs on the premises and no arguments – Sunrise has become a community center for the homeless, a place to come every weekday morning and gather with friends.

Hungry friends come for the home-cooked, nourishing breakfast and stay for simple medical services offered by the Cornell Scott Health Center and access to support from social services to find housing.

Sunrise provides a unique opportunity to bridge New Haven’s inequalities that separate us from one another. Volunteers come once and become regulars. Guests and volunteers become friends and greet one another on the street.

Co-Working and Clothing Sort
2024-10-23 17:00 - 20:00
Join us in the Dwight Hall Library for a spooky movie and snacks! Get some work done, or log community service hours sorting clothing donations. Register here!

Common Good & Creative Careers Peer-to-Peer Networking Event
2024-10-24 16:00 - 18:00
Location: Dwight Hall, 67 High St

Interested in hearing from your peers how their summer internships went so you can get ideas for next summer? Do you want to get the inside scoop on what it was like to work for an employer in the Common Good & Creative Careers space? This event will have Yale College students representing their summer employers in the areas of:

Arts

Education

Government

Nonprofit

Publishing

Journalism

It will be a career fair format in which you can walk around the room and speak to various Yale students who worked at summer positions in these fields.

Why Join Us?

Explore Diverse Paths: Hear from upperclassmen about their summer internships and how they’re making an impact.

Gain Insights: Engage in one-on-one conversations. Ask questions, seek advice, and uncover opportunities.

Find Your Calling: Whether it’s social justice, nonprofits, or creative arts, discover your path to making a difference and exploring your creativity.

RSVP now and jumpstart your journey in Common Good & Creative Careers!

Last year students represented these employers and more:

NY Green Bank

Breakthrough Collaborative (education)

NBCUniversal (Entertainment/film/tv)

Atlas Entertainment (Entertainment/film/tv)

The White House (government)

US Public Defender Service (government)

Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village (nonprofit)

Rank the Vote (political campaigns)

Future Coalition

Uptown Stores (publishing)

Hudson Institute (think tank)

Council on Foreign Relations (think tank)

Center for American Progress (think tank)

and more!

Students interested in volunteering at the event and representing their past employers may sign up here: https://ocs.yale.edu/blog/2024/09/20/common-good-creative-careers-peer-networking-event-october-24/.

Morse College Tea and Art Installation with Hector Rodriguez
2024-10-24 18:15

Join YUPP for a Film Screening of Indigenous Documentary: Lucy Ciara's "Out of State"
2024-10-28 19:00 - 21:00
The Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, in collaboration with the Indigenous Peoples of Oceania at Yale, will be hosting a screening of Ciara Lacy’s “Out of State,” a documentary on the incarceration of Native Hawaiian men in a for-profit prison in Eloy, Arizona. Following the screening, we will be joined by Lacy for a conversation on the film, the ongoing mass incarceration of Native Hawaiians, and paths toward decolonial and abolitionist futures.

The screening will take place in Silliflicks, the movie theater in Silliman College. Refreshments will be provided.

Ask OCS at Dwight Hall: Drop-in Office Hours
2024-11-01 14:00 - 16:30
Join the Office of Career Strategy and Dwight Hall for drop-in office hours centered on demystifying common good and creative careers! Confused about job and internship application cycles? Want to learn how to better network with alumni in your fields of interest? Come by between 2 and 4:30 pm to share your questions alongside students with similar interests.

This event is hosted by Jorimel Zaldivar, Senior Associate Director for Common Good Careers at OCS. Bring your friends!

Dwight Hall Community Hour
2024-11-01 15:00 - 16:30 | Dwight Hall Library, 67 High St, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, United States
Students and New Haven Community Members are welcome to join Dwight Hall’s staff in the Dwight Hall Library for a Friday “Community Hour.” Enjoy Fall-themed refreshments (and possibly Halloween candy) while meeting other leaders at Dwight Hall and in the community.

James Jeter, Dwight Hall’s Director of Civic Allyship will be our featured staff guest this week. We will have some brief guided conversation around the transformative potential of civic allyship and how students can develop skills for deep partnership with community leaders.

About the Dwight Hall Civic Allyship:Dwight Hall’s Civic Allyship Initiative is elevating the existing work of community organizers in New Haven and beyond. The program confronts complex social challenges, convening criminal justice advocates, grassroots activists, currently and formerly incarcerated people, students, and professors in equitable relationships through workshops, trainings, and research. Together, these allies are utilizing new grassroots organizing strategies, developing opportunities for underrepresented populations in civic leadership, and laying the groundwork for substantive policy reforms.

White House Speaker Event with YULAA: Featuring Dilpreet Sidhu
2024-11-04 17:30 - 18:30
The Yale Undergraduate Legal Aid Association (YULAA) and the Yale Foreign Policy Initiative (YFPI) are excited to be hosting Dilpreet Sidhu, Special Assistant to the President and the Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House National Security Council. The conversation, which is sponsored by the Jackson School and the Grand Strategy Program, will be focused on Ms. Sidhu’s career and attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions.

The talk will be moderated by (Ret.) Ambassador Harry Thomas, who served as the ambassador to Zimbabwe, the Philippines and Bangladesh.

To register, sign up here!

Navigating Immigration: Entrepreneurship for Current Students
2024-11-06 11:45 - 13:00
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If you are an international student with an interest in starting a business but wonder whether you can start such a venture with your current immigration status or how the process might affect your future presence in the U.S., this talk is for you. International entrepreneurs indeed face several hurdles when seeking to start a business in the United States. Attorney Dan Berger will demystify the immigration options available to international entrepreneurs, as well as provide insight into how international entrepreneurs should structure their companies to give themselves the best chance at a secure future in the United States.This event is free and open to the Yale community, but registration is required. During registration, please submit your questions about self-employment, start-ups, and issues related to entrepreneurship projects.This event is co-sponsored by the Office of International Students and Scholars, the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY), and the Yale School of Management Program on Entrepreneurship.

National First-Gen College Celebration Day in NYC
2024-11-08 18:00 - 21:00

How to Break into Competitive PhD Programs
2024-11-12 19:00 - 20:00
Want to know more about PhD programs? Join us on 11/12/24 at 7pm on campus.

RSVP – tinyurl.com/1stGenYalePhDs.

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Questions: 1stgenyale@1stgenyale.org

Intro to Public and Community Service Fellowships/Careers
2024-11-13 16:00 - 17:00
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Attend this information session to learn about fellowship funding resources for projects, research, study, and other activities related to Public and Community Service.

This event is co-hosted by the Poorvu Center, Yale’s Office of Fellowships and Funding, and Dwight Hall at Yale: Center for Public Service and Social Justice.

Location: Poorvu Center, Room 120B

301 York Street, New Haven, Conn 06511, United States

Ecofeminism: A Path to Healing Old Wounds, A Pierson Tea with Hector Rodriguez
2024-11-14 16:00

The Gersh Agency Virtual Panel Session
2024-11-14 17:00
Full information and registration here.

If you are interested in learning more about careers in the entertainment industry, then look no further! Join us for a virtual panel session with the Gersh Agency to learn from entertainment professionals across various departments. Joining the panel discussion is:

Kyetay Beckner

Jeff Greenberg

Jessica Sabanos

Brett Bennett

Carly Feldstein

Register here to receive the link to access the session.

The virtual session will begin promptly at 5:00 pm EST.

About the Gersh Agency:

A leader in the entertainment industry for over 70 years! Gersh has been a force in the entertainment industry since its founding in 1949. With a commitment to excellence and hands-on representation, Gersh – a full-service agency with over 300 staff, including more than 130 agents – has earned an unrivaled legacy in Hollywood. In 2023, an equity investment from Crestview Partners signaled a new era for the agency, beginning a global expansion plan.

Contact Stanley Willard, Jr. (stanley.willard@yale.edu) with any questions.

Demystifying the Path to Social Impact
2024-11-14 17:00 - 18:00
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1stGenYale Career Networking Mixer
2024-11-14 18:30 - 20:30
Alumni & Students Career Networking Mixer — New Haven

Thursday, November 14, 2024

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale

Dinner & Dessert

More info and registration here: tinyurl.com/2024CNM

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