Register here! This year marks 1,500 lunar years since the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. Among the most defining moments of his life and mission was the Hijra—the flight from Mecca to Medina. It was a journey of refuge under threat, yet also one of profound leadership and transformation. In this talk, Dr. Bilal Hassam will guide us through seven […]
Register here! Join current students, alumni, and friends of the Dwight Hall Summer Fellows program for a festive gathering celebrating 58 years of public service and social justice fellowships on Thursday, October 9th, 2025, from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM. Guests in the Dwight Hall Library will be joined by Summer Fellows nationwide who will virtually connect to the program […]
Join one of Dwight Hall's emerging projects, Trash to Fashion, a project dedicated to upcycling clothing with flair to refashion our environment, at their workshop and ball. At the event, you can learn from designers Tea Montgomery, Donald Carter, and Saks stylist Lauren Sprague, creative reuse specialist Lisa Spetrini and trashion artist Rebekah Fraser, the founder of Trash to Fashion. […]
Register here! Start your morning off on a great note! Join Dwight Hall on Wednesday 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 […]
Register here! Start your morning off on a great note! Join Dwight Hall on Wednesday 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 […]
Join Gilder Lehrman Center Director David W. Blight (Sterling Professor of History, Yale) in conversation with the film’s director, Susanna Styron YC ’76, Crystal Feimster (Associate Professor of Black Studies and American Studies, Yale University), and Willie James Jennings (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies Yale University Divinity School) About the film: https://myfathersname.com/ Years after Lee […]
Join us for Ask OCS at Dwight Hall office hours of the semester on November 7th from 2:00 - 4:00 PM. Ask questions about summer internships, mentorship, and more through individual counseling with Jorimel Zaldivar, Senior Associate Director for Common Good Careers at the Office of Career Strategy, to further your commitment to lifelong change. Gain insights and advice on […]
Register here! "Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it should be enlightened." President George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796 Since the 1970s, public history has become an important dimension of the historical profession. For decades, worldwide scholars, museum […]
RSVP here! Ever find yourself wondering how people land careers in public service and social justice? Ever find yourself wondering how state and local politics are shifting now? Join James Jeter, the director of the Full Citizens Coalition, and Josiah Brown, the executive director of Connecticut CASA, on November 13th, 2025 from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM for a moderated […]
RSVP here! Curious how leaders move between the public and private sectors or how public service can appear in multiple forms like policy work or consulting? Join Tom Freedman, CEO and co-founder of Freedman Consulting, and Preeta Nayak, Partner and Head of Leadership & Community Services at The Bridgespan Group, for a fireside chat on December 5th, 2025, from 12:00–1:15 […]
Join us for the last Ask OCS at Dwight Hall office hours of the semester on December 5th from 2:00 – 4:00 PM. Ask questions about summer internships, mentorship, and more through individual counseling with Jorimel Zaldivar, Senior Associate Director for Common Good Careers at the Office of Career Strategy, to further your commitment to lifelong change. Gain insights and […]
The New Haven Tutoring Initiative (NHTI) — a city-wide effort to boost literacy and math skills for K–8 students through meaningful mentorship — is currently recruiting Yale students to become tutors! With just one training session, you’ll be ready to tutor at any New Haven Reads or New Haven Counts partner site and begin building supportive, one-on-one relationships with New […]
