Dwight Hall at Yale

YANA-Dwight Hall Fellows: Cultivating the Next Generation of Social Impact Leadership
2022-07-27 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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Inspiring and supporting lives of impact lies at the heart of YANA’s mission.

Over the past five years, the YANA-Dwight Hall Fellowship has created opportunities for 19 Yale students to embark upon their individual social impact journeys, allowing them to explore a range of critical areas including affordable housing, climate change, public health, and racial equity.

Please join us on July 27th when the YANA Town Hall spotlights three current YANA-Dwight Hall Fellows as they describe their unique paths to service and lessons learned from their summer internships.

Ample time will be provided for Q&A. Moderated by YANA’s Executive Director Rachel Littman ’91

Dwight Hall Reunion Open House: Weekend 3
2022-06-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Dwight Hall Library, 67 High St, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, United States
Reconnect with classmates, share reflections on public service, and put your story in a Dwight Hall time capsule

Further information: david.wilkins@yale.edu or 203-432-2021

Dwight Hall Reunion Open House: Weekend 2
2022-06-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Dwight Hall Library, 67 High St, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, United States

Dwight Hall Reunion Open House: Weekend 1
2022-05-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Dwight Hall Library, 67 High St, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, United States

Eco-Feminist and Womanist Activism: Your Story as a Source
2022-04-22 14:00 - 15:00
How does your story inform your activism? This workshop will explore the ways eco-feminist/womanist praxes center story, song, and cultural knowledge as origins and sources for scholarship, activism, and community organizing. This workshop will have three sections:

Story as Source – the presenter will share their own story through poetry and spoken wordStory as Craft – how does your story and social location inform what you see and support?Story as Communal Praxis – we will close with time to share our narratives with one another.

Presented by the Dwight Hall Magee Fellowship. We will provide coffee, tea, and snacks for this convening!

“Beloved, to day you eat…

Today you walk,

today you read, today you paint, my love.” – The Black Maria Aracelis Girmay

Kaley Casenhiser is a first-year candidate for Dual Master’s Degrees from Yale Divinity School and Yale School of the Environment. A liberation theo-ethicist, scholar-activist, performance artist, and chaplain in a time of climate crisis, her work is rooted in womanist-feminist ethics and praxis. Her research specializes in the intersectionalities and interstices of environmental racism, sexual ethics, and land sovereignty, and centers the lived experiences and narratives of women, queer and non-binary persons, and the land itself as sources of moral wisdom. Her work counter-maps hetero-normative, racialized geographies and epistemologies and using CPAR (critical participatory action research) to explore the contours of land justice pathways on church-owned lands through reparations, rematriation, and regeneration. On the weekends, Kaley can be found cantoring for Jazz Eucharist at St. Paul’s & St. James’s Episcopal Church in Wooster Square, baking sourdough bread, rehearsing at the Landscape Lab for “This Place is a Message,” snuggling with her tabby, Ari, or reading poetry, most recently, Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay.

Black Ukrainian Panel
2022-04-21 17:00 - 18:00
SIGN UP HERE: https://cglink.me/2dA/r1588698

Come to the Black Ukranian Panel hosted by Dwight Hall and BSAY on Thursday, April 21, from 5-6 pm at Davies Auditorium! We will be hearing from two amazing speakers about the war in Ukraine and how Black Ukranians have been affected by it as they seek shelter. This discussion will be in a panel format where you will have the opportunity to ask your own questions as well.

If you have any questions, feel free to email yusuf.rasheed@yale.edu and danielle.doss@yale.edu.

We hope to see you there!

Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive at Yale Offers Chance to Save a Life
2022-04-21 10:00 - 17:00
Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive at YalePart of the “Get in the Game. Save a Life.” Program for Be The Match®

Ways to Join the Be The Match Registry®:

In Person (Yale community members and hosted visitors):Thursday, Apr. 21, 202210:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Beinecke Plaza, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.To join the Be The Match Registry®, must be ages 18 to 40No advance registration required1-800-MARROW-2 (for questions related to joining the registry, donating, etc.)By Website:http://join.bethematch.org/YaleSavesBy Text Message:Text “YaleSaves” to 61474

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – In recognition of the impact her courageous battle with cancer has had on efforts to save lives through marrow donor registration drives, the Yale athletic department is once again holding a drive in memory of women’s ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz ’10 (Wilcox, Sask.) (1988-2011).

The Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive at Yale, which is part of the nationwide “Get in the Game. Save a Life.” campaign for Be The Match®, offers multiple ways for people to register for the chance to become a life-saving marrow donor.

Yale community members and hosted visitors who prefer to join in person can come to Beinecke Plaza on Thursday, Apr. 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The drive is open to anyone aged 18-40. Donors who could help save lives are located through testing that consists of simple cheek swabs.At any time, anyone who cannot attend the drive in person at Yale can go on-line to http://join.bethematch.org/YaleSaves or text “YaleSaves” to 61474 to start the process of joining the Be The Match Registry®.Yale’s drives are part of the “Get in the Game. Save a Life.” program, which started in 1992 at Villanova under the guidance of head football coach Andy Talley. That program, involving college athletic teams organizing drives on their campuses, has resulted in more than 800 life-saving transplants. Larry Ciotti, long-time assistant football coach at Yale, is a friend of Talley’s and brought the idea to Yale.

Talley has partnered with Be The Match® to take his efforts to the national level. He has received commitments from 160 college football programs. The Yale athletic department has held drives each of the past 13 springs, ever since Mandi was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December of 2008. Yale’s record-setting drives have added nearly 8,000 potential donors to the Be The Match Registry®, and more than 80 life-saving donor matches for patients in need have been located through the Bulldogs’ efforts.

Yale’s drives were led by the football team and women’s ice hockey team each of the first two years. In 2011, the field hockey team began assisting. In 2018 the men’s soccer team joined these efforts. This year, the Yale volleyball team has joined as well. Members of these teams help spread the word about the need for donors to their classmates, friends and relatives.

Mandi’s story has been one of the driving forces behind the success of the Yale drives. In September 2010 she required a blood stem cell transplant that was designed to give her a new immune system using two anonymously donated units of umbilical cord blood. A biopsy in December 2010 indicated that she had relapsed, and she passed away at home in Saskatchewan on Apr. 3, 2011.

Mandi’s plight shed further light on the needs of cancer patients everywhere, and the value of marrow donation. Every year, thousands of people of all ages are diagnosed with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases. Many of them will pass away unless they get a marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant from a matching donor. Seventy percent of these patients do not have a fully matched donor in their family and depend on the Be The Match Registry® to find a genetic match to save their life.

To join the Be The Match Registry®, an individual must be between the ages of 18 and 40, meet certain health guidelines and be willing to donate to any patient in need. The donor test consists of simple cheek swabs and will only take approximately 15 minutes.

Those who registered at previous drives are already in the Be The Match Registry®, so there is no need for them to be registered again. Yale is seeking to add as many NEW potential donors as possible.

Those interested in helping with the Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive at Yale can contact Larry Ciotti with the Yale football team at larry.ciotti@yale.edu.

More information on Mandi

Be The Match Registry®:

Be The Match Registry® WebsiteMyths and facts about marrow donationMedical Guidelines for Potential Donors

Reflexivity in Community Work
2022-04-20 19:00 - 20:00
What is the importance of engaging in reflexivity when doing community work? This workshop will include active dialogue where we explore room for reflexivity in current community work being done, and go through several activities designed to enhance reflexivity.

Presented by the Dwight Hall Magee Fellowship. Refreshments will be served.

Sydney Hussett is a Master of Public Health candidate in the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale University. Prior to attending Yale, Sydney completed her Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology at McMaster University. She is passionate about working with Black youth, particularly in regards to empowering them and developing their leadership capacity. Sydney is currently working with Dr. Ijeoma Opara in the Substance and Sexual Health Lab, developing an HIV and substance use intervention specifically tailored for Black girls.

Ricardo Pérez Manrique, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on “Human Rights and Freedom of Expression in Latin America”
2022-04-19 12:00 - 13:00
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Zoom: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jjT68lCvSlGMBT8pt0U7Eg

Join the Yale MacMillan Center’s Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Fox International Fellowship, the Program on Peace and Development, and the Office of International Affairs for the next session of our Latin American Policy Leader series with the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Ricardo Pérez Manrique.

Ricardo Pérez Manrique is a lawyer in Uruguay and a Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights since 2019. He was President and Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, which he has been a member of since 2012. In 1989 he entered the judiciary in Uruguay, fulfilling a long career of more than thirty years in the Uruguayan Judiciary. He was Permanent Secretary of the Ibero-American Judicial Summit. He has been the author of several articles and publications on topics related to international human rights law, child protection, freedom of expression, among others. He teaches at various universities in Latin America and Europe.Graduated from the University of the Republic with the title of Doctor of Law and Social Sciences in 1973; In 1974, he also revalidated his degree at the University of Buenos Aires, practicing his profession in the Argentine Republic.

This talk will be moderated by Claudia Flores, Visiting Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago School of Law as well as Director of the Global Human Rights Clinic.

Imagining Postgraduate Service: Nonprofit Board Participation
2022-04-18 19:00 - 20:00
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Have you begun thinking about your public service involvement post-graduation? Have you heard of nonprofit board service but are unsure of what that looks like, how your skills might be useful, or even how to get started?

Public Service takes many shapes, from volunteering on the weekend, to working in the nonprofit sector or with a grassroots collective, to serving on nonprofit boards. Hear from 3 Yale alumni on their experience working with nonprofit boards, on the questions to ask before joining a board, and on how to serve the community with a variety of skill sets and time commitments. We’ll learn about the purpose and setup of boards, the mutual relationship between the nonprofit and its board members, and go over advice on how to get involved. There will be a Q&A at the end of the event to answer further questions!

Panelists:Madeline is CEO and Co-Founder of Matriculate, a nonprofit which seeks to empower talented, low-income high school students to make the leap to colleges where they will thrive. Before launching Matriculate, Madeline served as Director of Strategic Initiatives for America Achieves, a national education nonprofit. Previously, Madeline was Director of Operations and Special Assistant to Joel Klein at Amplify, an education technology company. Madeline also served as National Director of Outreach and Development and Founding Chicago Executive Director for Peer Health Exchange, a health education organization that gives teens the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions. Madeline graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History. She serves on Dwight Hall’s board.

Randi graduated from Yale in 1979, the 10th graduating class of women. She received a law degree from the Northwestern Pritzker school of law in 1984. She worked as a legal aid lawyer both in urban and in rural settings, spending decades representing low-income family farmers throughout the country. For a decade she served as executive director of a national non-profit law firm, Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG); for twelve years she served as the court-appointed monitor in the African-American farmers’ race discrimination case (Pigford v. Vilsack); and for six years as the executive director of the Otto Bremer Foundation. Now she serves as executive director of Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul, a leading anti-poverty nonprofit in the Twin Cities. Additionally Randi has participated on, worked for, and interacted with nonprofit boards throughout her career.

Jean is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary. Prior to joining Artivion in 2015, she held various positions, including Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of C.R. Bard, Inc., Deputy General Counsel, Medtronic, Inc., Vice President, Litigation, Boston Scientific, Inc., and Deputy General Counsel, Guidant Corporation. Jean also spent nearly 15 years in private practice as a trial lawyer at Dorsey & Whitney, Faegre & Benson, and Sidley & Austin. She clerked for two years on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Luther M. Swygert. Jean has a J.D./MBA (cum laude) from the University of Chicago, and two undergraduate degrees from Yale University in engineering and political science.

Dwight Hall Event Support:Raymond Jin is a first-year in Branford College planning to major in Global Affairs. As an Outreach Ambassador at Dwight Hall, Raymond is actively preparing the Yale and Dwight Hall community for The Great Give, a 36-hour, online-giving event to support local nonprofits serving Greater New Haven. Raymond also works to increase student involvement with Dwight Hall. Outside of Dwight Hall, Raymond is a Senator on the Yale College Council and is passionate about harnessing the student voice.

A Conversation with the Music in Schools Initiative
2022-04-18 15:00 - 16:00
Are you interested in learning how music education happens in New Haven? Or would you like to volunteer teaching music in New Haven schools? Come learn about the Music in Schools Initiative, a program that places School of Music students in public school classrooms, supporting teachers and teaching private lessons and ensembles after school. Program Director Ruben Rodriguez and Coordinator Justina Sullivan will share their expertise in working with community members, and share how other students can get involved.

Featuring:

A native of Colombia, South America, Ruben Rodriguez studied music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon, Conservatoire National de Region de Paris, and the Yale School of Music. For more than 25 years, he has been performing (chamber music, soloist, recording session musician, concert bands, and symphony orchestras), teaching, coaching, conducting ensembles, and promoting music as a tool of social change in South America, Europe, and the U.S. He has created and coordinated several artistic projects in underprivileged communities bringing music into the lives of thousands of children. Currently, he is the Director of the Music in Schools Initiative of the Yale School of Music.

Celebrating Service: A Public Health Conversation with Yale-Jefferson Award Winners and Students
2022-04-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Rose Alumni House, 232 York Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, United States
Preregistration is required for this event. RSVP at this link.

What are the pathways for current students in the social justice and public health sectors? Join the Yale Alumni Association and Dwight Hall at Yale in celebrating service and public health as former Yale-Jefferson Award winner Margaret Flinter ’80 MSN, senior vice president and clinical director of the Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI) and senior faculty and founder emeritus of its Weitzman Institute, talks with current Yale students on their public health pathways. Building on her steadfast dedication to providing healthcare services for those in need, Margaret will lead a discussion with Dwight Hall Fellows that addresses the role of public service and public health to create social change and improve people’s lives. Participants will share their experiences, discussing the pathways for current students to pursue careers in these sectors, addressing how to identify mentorship opportunities and how to get involved to make a real difference. The Yale-Jefferson Awards are presented annually, recognizing sustained public service that is individual, innovative, impactful, and inspiring. The recipients are three Yalies – a Yale College student, a graduate or professional school student, and a member of the alumni body – all of whom have demonstrated service that draws on the Yale community and benefits the world beyond Yale. Since 1968, the Dwight Hall Summer Fellows has offered the unique opportunity for students to dedicate themselves to creating social change. Designed for community-engaged students who need the time and resources to enact a socially good idea, students are employed full-time, usually eight weeks.

Panelist Bios:

Margaret Flinter ’80 MSN Margaret Flinter received the 2021 Yale-Jefferson Award for Public Service for her steadfast dedication to providing healthcare services for those in need. She is senior vice president and clinical director of the Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI), and senior faculty and founder emeritus of its Weitzman Institute. After graduating from the Yale School of Nursing, Flinter served as a National Health Service Corps scholar and new family nurse practitioner, joining the small staff of activists and clinicians of CHCI in Middletown, Connecticut. Under the living banner of “Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege,” they set out to build a model of comprehensive, innovative, and fully integrated primary care that today is recognized as one of the largest and most innovative health centers in the U.S. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CHCI embraced its role as an activist healthcare organization, standing up the largest COVID testing and vaccine operation in the state, from a mass vaccine drive to clinics at migrant farms, churches, schools, and homes. In 2005, Flinter founded the Weitzman Institute as the research, innovation, and training arm of CHCI, noting that CHCI had the patients, data, and research questions to study persistent issues of access, health equity, and health disparities and test strategies to address them. Equally concerned with training future generations of healthcare providers, she launched the country’s first formal postgraduate residency and fellowship training program for new nurse practitioners in 2007, now a national model. Charlie Tran YC ’22, MPH ’23

Charlie Tran (he/him) is a current senior in Yale College from Honolulu, Hawai’i in the 5-year BA-BS/MPH program. He is majoring in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health and completing his MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in U.S Health and Justice. As an aspiring primary care physician, he is passionate about health equity and addressing social and structural determinants of health (SDOH) in his current and future work. With support from Dwight Hall, he has worked with Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC), a community health center in New Haven, since May 2021. His work with FHCHC involves patient outreach, clinic program evaluation, SDOH data analysis, and shadowing providers. Besides FHCHC, Charlie has previously volunteered with food aid organizations in New Haven, informing his interests in food insecurity and its impacts on community health.

Keith Calloway YC ’23 Keith is a junior in Branford College studying Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. He was been a Dwight Hall Community Mental Health Fellow since August 2020 and, in the past, has worked with Outpatient Rehab and a research project examining the influence of education on the aspirations of clients served by the Connecticut Mental Health Center. He currently works with CMHC’s History Exploration Committee, researching the center’s delivery of patient care and relationship with the New Haven community during its early years. Keith plans to attend medical school after completing his studies at Yale.

Audrey Huang YC ’21, MPH ’22 Audrey Huang is now in her 2nd year of her MPH in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at Yale School of Public Health. Her research interests include: mental health, oppression-based and historical trauma, and structural violence. She is also a part of the BS-MPH program, and previously was a Community Mental Health Fellow through Dwight Hall during her time as an undergrad. Through her two years as a fellow, she was involved in a series of projects at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, including helping with building out a Spiritual Care site and the Together New Haven project. After graduating in May, she will return home to Northern Virginia and start work at a local healthcare organization.

COVID requirements: Yale students and Yale affiliates only; masking indoors and an attestation regarding vaccinations (including boosters).

A Conversation with Climate and Energy Expert Amy Harder
2022-04-13 18:00 - 19:00
Please join the Dwight Hall Socially Responsible Investment Fund for a Zoom conversation and Q&A with Amy Harder, who runs Cipher, the climate and energy publication by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy.

RSVP and find the Zoom link here!

About Amy Harder and Cipher / Breakthrough Energy:

An alum of Axios and the Wall Street Journal, Amy Harder is Cipher’s executive editor and one of the country’s top energy and climate journalists. Cipher produces a weekly newsletter and a video series, which provide expert reporting and analysis to help accelerate understanding of the energy transition. Founded by Bill Gates and backed by leaders including Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg, Breakthrough Energy is a network of investment vehicles, philanthropic programs, policy advocacy, and other initiatives aimed at scaling the technologies we need to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Learn more about Cipher and follow / subscribe to their work:

Website

Twitter: @CipherClimate

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“A Cop Movie” Screening with The Justice Collaboratory
2022-04-07 17:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, United States
The Justice Collaboratory at the Yale Law School invites you to join us for a spellbinding big-screen movie-going experience followed by a rich panel discussion.

On Thursday, April 7th we are screening A COP MOVIE. This original film propels the viewer into an unusual cinematic space, giving voice to one of the world’s most controversial institutions—The Police. The movie starts at 5pm with a conversation and questions to follow.

Learn how vanguard policing research came to shape the script, the actors’ approach, and the roll-out of this award-winning film by rising Mexican auteur Alonso Ruizpalacios.

The dynamic panelists include:

Professor Rodrigo Canales (SOM), Justice Collaboratory memberDaniela Alatorre, ProducerAlexandra Zapata Hojel, Associate Producer & Impact DirectorChief Tony Reyes (retired) New Haven Police Department

For more information visit the JC website & view the attached poster: https://www.justicehappenshere.yale.edu/events/the-jc-presents-a-cop-movie-and-panel

We look forward to seeing you at the newly designed state-of-the-art movie theater located at Humanities Quadrangle L02 – 320 York Street (lower level).

Innovator’s Toolkit: Civic Innovation with Genevive Walker
2022-03-24 17:30 - 18:30
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.

Learn more:

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
Pre-register here.

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.
