Dwight Hall at Yale

Innovator’s Toolkit: Civic Innovation with Genevive Walker
2022-03-24 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
REGISTER HERE FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT.

This session will focus attention on poverty and explore what happens when the societal response is involvement vs. apathy, accountability vs blame, genuine support vs academic observation. Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology has approached poverty from the lens of wealth generation for a decade and continues to provide opportunities to reconsider what it means to be historically underserved, underperforming, underrepresented using involvement, accountability, and genuine support as vehicles for economic progress. ConnCAT works in the fields of workforce development, youth arts motivational programs, entrepreneurship, and most recently through the development of the Connecticut Community Outreach Revitalization Program (ConnCORP) economic justice and neighborhood revitalization.

Speaker Bio: Genevive Walker was raised in New Haven, Connecticut. She attended public school and subsequently attended and graduated with cum laude distinction from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies. After a few relocations in her young adult life, she received her Master of Arts in Elementary Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York. She is currently the CEO & President at the Connecticut Center for Arts in Technology in New Haven, CT, where she previously served as Director of Programs and COO.

Learn more about Tsai CITY here.

New Haven Civic Innovation Prize Technical Assistance Session
2022-03-18 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-03-15 19:00 - 20:00
Join us for an Information and Technical Assistance session for the New Haven Civic Innovation Prize!

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The New Haven Civic Innovation Prize awards up to $10,000 to the best student- or community-led venture or project focused on benefiting the City of New Haven.

The Prize aims to catalyze student- and community-led innovations that address, and are informed by, community priorities. Community members, students, or teams of students and community members who are working on projects in key areas of community development, particularly related to recovery from the health and economic crises causes by the COVID-19 pandemic, are welcome to apply.

The competition provides participants with constructive feedback from experienced professionals, mentorship from relevant experts, and chances to meet social entrepreneurs and civic leaders. The judges will award a total of $10,000 in prizes and may elect to allocate the prize amount to a single winner, or between two teams.

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Further information including Prize criteria and links to the application can be found at http://dwighthall.org/civicinnovationprize

WE@Yale Women Innovators Series with Sara Du, Co-Founder and CEO of Alloy
2022-03-09 09:00 - 10:00
Yale Women Innovators is a speaker series designed to foster community discussion, idea sharing, and networking in support of women and non-binary femme innovators across Yale’s campus. Kick-off or end your day with a welcoming community as inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs share their stories.

Sara Du is CEO & cofounder of Alloy Automation (https://runalloy.com/), an a16z and Y Combinator-backed ecommerce software startup. Previously, she was a designer at Wish and an engineer at Snap. She dropped out of her undergrad at Harvard.

The series is produced by WE@Yale, a joint initiative of the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) and the Yale SOM Program on Entrepreneurship.

Read more here: https://city.yale.edu/events/weyale-women-innovators-series-with-sara-du-cofounder-of-alloy

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weyale-women-innovators-series-with-sara-du-cofounder-of-alloy-tickets-277678984317

Sustainable Health Initiative Fireside Chats–Teresa Mbagaya, principal, Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyer Group
2022-03-01 11:00 - 12:00
Sustainable Health Initiative Fireside Chats is a virtual conversational series to foster a learning community of entrepreneurs in global and planetary health, with focus on the Global South. The series brings together founders from across the Yale network for inspiring conversations with world-class leaders in innovation and offers conversations with investors, successful health startups, and influential stakeholders that provide insight on challenges and lessons learned.

March 1st 11:00am EST Teresa Mbagaya, principal, Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyer Group.

A Principal at Imaginable Futures, Teresa Mbagaya is responsible for the strategic management and execution of IF’s investment strategy in education in Africa.

Parks-King Lecture: William Barber, “Reviving American Democracy: Why We Must Have a Moral Reset and Mass Movement to Shift the Narrative in American Public Life”
2022-02-24 17:30 - 18:00
William Barber will give Yale Divinity School’s annual Parks-King Lecture at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 24. Dr. Barber will speak on “Reviving American Democracy: Why We Must Have a Moral Reset and Mass Movement to Shift the Narrative in American Public Life.”–The lecture will be presented in the Divinity School’s Old Refectory, with attendance limited to members of the Yale community. The lecture will be broadcast on Livestream: https://livestream.com/yaledivinityschool/events/10138862–It will be available for reply on the YDS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/YaleDivinitySchool–The Rev. Dr. William Barber II is President and Senior Lecturer at Repairers of the Breach; Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop in the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; and Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Goldsboro, N.C. He has authored or coauthored four books: We Are Called To Be A Movement; Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing; The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement; and Forward Together: A Moral Message for The Nation. Barber is also the architect of the Moral Movement, which began with weekly Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina General Assembly in 2013 and relaunched in August 2020 under the banner of the Poor People’s Campaign.–In his Parks-King Lecture, Barber will offer a moral analysis of current debates in public policy, diagnosing a crisis of possibility in American public life and demonstrating the need for mass action to reshape the moral narrative. Drawing on historical examples, he argues that such a moral reset is not only possible but has been a necessary prelude to every major stride toward a more perfect union in U.S. history.–Established in 1983 in honor of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Parks-King Lecture is dedicated to bringing the contributions of African American scholars, social theorists, pastors, and social activists to YDS and the wider New Haven community.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy of Social & Environmental Justice
2022-01-13 18:00 - 2022-01-17 15:30
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 13 @ 6:00 – 7:15 PM- Environmental Justice: Exploring Race, Place & SpiritualityFRIDAY, JANUARY 14 @ 10:30 – 11:30 AM- Frozen Frogs and Climate ChangeSUNDAY, JANUARY 16 @ 1:00 – 8:00 PM- MLK Youth Space: Art as WellnessMONDAY, JANUARY 17 @ 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM- Z Experience Poetry Jam

The Peabody’s 26th Annual Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy of Social and Environmental Justice offers a line-up of inspiring and thought-provoking virtual events from January 13-17, generously sponsored by Citizens™. The CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) and our friends at the New Haven Museum have partnered with us for a slate of programs that honor Dr. King’s legacy and illustrate how it continues to impact artists, advocates, and thought leaders today.

Join us on Zoom or watch the broadcasts live on the Yale Peabody Museum Facebook Page and YouTube Channel Live. English Captioning Available.
