How to Break into Competitive PhD Programs
2024-11-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
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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Centering Community Engagement in Health Care Careers
2024-11-15 12:30 - 13:45
Location: Dwight Hall Library, 67 High St

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How does equitable community engagement advance public health? How can medical professionals improve global health outcomes and reduce health disparities by empowering marginalized communities? Join a panel of health care leaders as they share how thoughtful community involvement changes lives. Attendees will also learn about pathways to community-engaged health care careers.

Lunch will be provided!

Meet the panelists:

Aniyizhai Annamalai M.B.B.S., M.D.

Dr. Annamalai is the medical director of the Yale Adult Refugee Clinic that partners with the local refugee resettlement agency to provide health care for all newly arrived refugees in New Haven, Connecticut. She is also the medical director of the Wellness Center, a primary care clinic that provides medical care for people with serious mental illness.

Her academic interest is in integrating physical and mental health care for vulnerable populations, including refugees and those with serious mental illness. She has been providing direct clinical services for these populations for the last 15 years as both an internist and psychiatrist.

She has received several awards recognizing her service to these populations. As an educator, she has edited ‘Refugee Health Care’, and authored ‘Medical Management of Psychotropic Side Effects’. Both are clinical reference books for clinicians and students. She is a member of the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Refugee Health Care Providers.

In her role as a physician for these vulnerable populations, she interfaces with community organizations like IRIS, the local refugee resettlement agency, and social service agencies for mentally ill people.

Madeline Kerner ’07

Madeline is leading work to support parents raising young children with ADHD as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Luminary Impact Fund.

Madeline last served as CEO & Co-Founder of Matriculate, a national college access organization, supporting high-achieving, low-income juniors and seniors navigate the college process and attend colleges where they will thrive. During this time, Matriculate supported more than 15,000 students nationally. In 2021, results of a randomized control trial show that the Matriculate model was highly effective, with Matriculate students 25% more likely than a control group to attend the top 80 colleges and universities and to persist at statistically significant higher rates.

Prior to Matriculate, Madeline served as Director of Strategic Initiatives for America Achieves, a national education nonprofit, and Director of Operations at Amplify, an education technology business. Previously, Madeline worked as National Director of Outreach and Development and Founding Chicago Executive Director for Peer Health Exchange (PHE), a health education organization that gives teens the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public schools. Madeline graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History.

Madeline serves on the Board of Dwight Hall at Yale and Matriculate and resides in Brooklyn with her family.

Darius Mostaghimi ’25 M.D.

Darius is a fourth-year Yale School of Medicine student from Madison, Connecticut. He is a Clinical Advisor at HAVEN Free Clinic, where he manages primary care teams for low-income individuals without insurance. He is planning to practice in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.

Ask OCS at Dwight Hall: Drop-in Office Hours
2024-11-15 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-12-06 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!

Volunteer with Sunrise Cafe!
2024-11-19 06:00 - 09:00, 2024-12-03 06:00 - 09:00, 2024-12-10 06:00 - 09:00
Register here!

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.

Tea Chat with David McCullough III '17
2024-12-05 17:00

A presentation & interactive discussion with Dr. Ira Helfand on The Current Nuclear Threat and Preventing Nuclear War
2025-01-12 12:00 - 13:00

2025 Yale University Martin Luther King Commemoration featuring Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
2025-01-27 18:00

Reading Group - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2025-02-05 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-02-12 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-02-26 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-03-26 16:30 - 18:00
2025 marks 100 years since the birth of Malcolm X El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. It’s an important anniversary and an opportunity for us to deeply engage his vision, life and activism so it can enrich and inform our work in the world today – especially in this time of mass death, social fracture, and climate catastrophe. Alongside Brother Malcolm, we will also explore the legacies of Dr. Betty Shabazz and other transformative personalities who emerged next to and near him .

Join us on 02/12, 02/26, 03/05, and 03/26 from 4:30-6pm as we launch a deep dive into the Autobiography of Malcolm X, 4:30 pm at Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle, Room HQ 107 (320 York Street, New Haven) – all are welcome, especially our friends from the New Haven community! This is part of the “MX100: Why Malcolm? Why Today?” series of programs. Watch out for more announcements soon!

Join us even if you haven’t started reading the Autobiography yet.

FOCUS on New Haven 2025 Information Session
2025-02-10 20:00
Location: Dwight Hall Common Room, 67 High St

Special Session: Navigating Federal Careers in 2025, Ask OCS at Dwight Hall
2025-02-14 14:00 - 16:30
Ask OCS at Dwight Hall Office Hours are back for spring 2025! Join Jorimel Zaldivar, Senior Associate Director for Common Good Careers at the Yale Office of Career Strategy, for a special session on navigating internships and careers in the federal government amidst hiring freezes, layoffs, and more.

Please complete the required interest form if you plan to attend on February 14th.

Honoring Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X El Hajj Malik El Shabazz: A Gravesite Gathering of Prayer and Reflection
2025-02-21 08:15
REGISTER at WWW.TINYURL.COM/MXZIYARA25

As part of the MX100: Why Malcolm? Why Today? series of programs and in conjunction with the Muslim Life Program at the Yale Chaplain’s Office, the Muslim Leadership Lab (MLL) is organizing a special visit to honor El Hajj Malik El Shabazz and Dr. Betty Shabazz on the 60th anniversary of Brother Malcolm’s martyrdom.

TWO Buses will leave at 8:15 am from Phelps Gate to travel to Ferncliff Cemetery.

BUS #1 will return to Yale Campus for approximately 1:00 pm.

BUS #2 will head to NYC for a special tour of Malcolm X archive at the Schomburg Center (515 Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem, NY) led by scholar and Yale PhD candidate Iman AbdoulKarim. Registration is limited to 25 people. Special arrangements will be made for Friday prayer services at the Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood (at the site of Brother Malcolm’s Muslim Mosque Inc. at 1:00 pm; 130 W 113th St, New York, NY)

PLEASE NOTE: Participants going to NYC will be responsible for their own travel back to New Haven

Please register by February 16, 2025. If you are signing up for the Schomburg Center visit, we will confirm your participation via email as numbers are limited.

At the maqam (gravesite), there will be communal recitation of Qur’an, spiritual reminders, remembrances, and communal prayer. There will be time for personal reflection and prayer. People of all faiths – and none – are welcome. We will also visit the gravesites of James Baldwin and Paul Robeson.

The visit will be facilitated by MLL convener Abdul-Rehman Malik (abdul-rehman.malik@yale.edu) and Iman AbdoulKarim (iman.abdoulkarim@yale.edu).

Please register your interest so we can determine the best travel arrangements for you. Seats are limited so please reserve only if you are able to make it.

2025 Common Good & Creative Careers Networking Event
2025-02-21 13:00 - 15:00
Location: The Golden CenterSt. Thomas More Catholic Church & Center at Yale268 Park StreetNew Haven, CT

To register click here: https://yale-csm.symplicity.com/events/CGCC_2025

About the Event:

This in-person networking event is a great way for organizations to engage with Yale talent. The event will be open to undergraduate students of Yale College, School of Management students, Post-Doctoral Associates, Post-Doctoral Fellows and graduate students of Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

The event set-up is similar to a career fair, but smaller in scale, offering more opportunity to network with Yale students. Participating organizations will be offering opportunities for students to learn about their work in: education, nonprofit, government, energy and the environment, think tanks, the arts, entertainment, publishing, journalism and more. Organizations are not required to have an open employment opportunity to participate.

Y-SASCA: First Small Claims Training Session
2025-02-25 19:30

Yale Alumni Service Corps: A Yale Student's Perspective
2025-02-26 20:00 - 21:00
A Conversation with Dr. Rosalia Burke ’92, Brooklyn Brauner ’26, Ronin Burke ’24, and Ashley Sottosanti ’26. Register here.

Would you like to know what Yale students do on YASC trips? Now is your chance!

Join us for an engaging conversation with Dr. Rosalia Burke ’92, YASC Vice-Chair, and student panelists Brooklyn Brauner ’26, Ronin Burke ’24, and Ashley Sottosanti ’26, who will share their experiences on YASC trips. During this session, our panelists will tell us what made them join our service trips, describe the types of projects they worked on, provide an overview of the scholarship application process, and highlight the impact service has had on their lives.Do not miss this opportunity to learn more about our organization, ask questions, and get involved! Event will be recorded.

How Racist Policies Undermine Black Home Ownership: A Conversation About Housing Justice in America
2025-02-27 17:00
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The Center for Public Theology and Public Policy is glad to join partners at Yale Law School and across the University to host Bernadette Atuahene, author of the new book Plundered, for a conversation about the moral crisis of foreclosures and the racist policies that have exacerbated it. Professor James Forman of Yale Law School will facilitate a conversation between Atuahene, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, and Alexandra Nichols, who lost her home to property tax foreclosure. This event is a part of the Pelles/McSurely/Eguavoen Lecture series.

Ask OCS at Dwight Hall: Drop-In Office Hours on Common Good & Creative Careers
2025-02-28 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. Please fill out the required interest form if you plan to attend.

Ask OCS at Dwight Hall: Drop-In Office Hours
2025-03-07 14:00 - 16:30

Virtual Event: “What's Next for Ukraine?” with Journalist Jim Brooke '77
2025-03-19 19:00 - 20:30
RSVP here!

Join us on Wednesday, March 19 at 7 pm ET for a talk on the war in Ukraine with distinguished journalist Jim Brooke YC ’77. This event will be hosted online via Zoom.

The war in Ukraine is now three years on. What’s the situation and future for Ukraine?

Jim worked for 24 years as a staff reporter for The New York Times, with many reporting assignments to Russia. After leaving the Times in 2006, he worked in Moscow for eight years, including stints as Bloomberg Bureau Chief and then Voice of America (VOA) Bureau Chief. He worked for six years as a journalist in Kyiv. In September 2021, he returned to his native New England. Jim writes twice a week on Russia-Ukraine for The New York Sun.

This virtual event is free, with a suggested donation of $10 or more to support I.R.I.S. We suggest a donation of $10 or more to support Ukrainian refugees who are relocating to Connecticut. We will forward contributions to Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS), a non-profit that supports refugees and asylum seekers and is based in New Haven. For more information on IRIS, go to www.irisct.org.

Donations can be made on the Yale Club of Hartford website. Write “Ukrainian Refugee Support” in the “Additional Notes” portion of the donation form.

We look forward to seeing you on March 19th!

From Summer Fellows to Social Leaders: YANA-Dwight Hall Fellowship to Strengthen the Nonprofit Sector
2025-03-26 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Dwight Hall at Yale (67 High St, New Haven, CT) and via Zoom

Register here!

Schedule for event:

5:00-5:30 – Networking and Light Refreshments

5:30-6:30 – Panel Discussion and Q&A

If you’re joining us on Zoom we will start at 5:30.

Join us for a special evening celebrating 8 years of the YANA–Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship. To date, Yale alumni have helped fund 32 Fellows, providing transformative opportunities for students to tackle pressing social challenges in public health, education, and social justice. Yet, the need continues to grow—many students who qualify for the Fellowship still lack the resources to participate.

As nonprofits face increasing scrutiny and resource constraints, this conversation will highlight the importance of strengthening leadership pipelines and equipping emerging changemakers with the tools to sustain and grow their impact. Hear directly from former Fellows about how the program shaped their career paths and allowed them to tackle critical issues in their fields. We’ll also feature an alumni Fellowship sponsor on why they continue to invest in this impactful program.

Our distinguished speakers include Jonathan Fanton PhD ‘78, former President of the MacArthur Foundation, Asia Brown MAR MPH’19, Wellspring Consulting, and YANA Dwight Hall Summer 2024 fellow Hameeda Uloomi ‘25. The discussion will be moderated by Rob Leighton SOM ‘89 and YANA Board Member emeritus. Their insights, alongside stories from past Fellows, will provide a powerful discussion on the Fellowship’s role in shaping the nonprofit sector’s future.

Don’t miss this inspiring event, as we highlight the value of your support and drive the final push toward our campaign goal!
