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The First Growing Season: Saving and Investment Strategies for Young Adult Years

Join the Future Leaders of Yale, Yale African American Affinity Group, Yale Latino Networking Group, and Working Women’s Network for the next Building Wealth Generator Series event entitled “The First Growing Season: Saving and Investment Strategies for Young Adult Years”. We will discuss step by step building emergency fund, maximizing 401(k) contributions, and step by step building investments.

Guest speakers will include Stephen R. Vaughan and Eric Judge, CFP. This event will be moderated by Elvin Turner, JD, MBA.

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group and Working Women’s Network for a conversation with Tomiko Brown-Nagin about her new book Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality. This event will be moderated by James Forman Jr., J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Register by Friday, February 25th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!

Celebration for International Women’s Day

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Women United, Hopkins School, and Yale University Office of Diversity and Inclusion; featuring Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Investigative Reporter, Andrea Elliott.

Phenomenal I Am Information Session

Please join the Future Leaders of Yale, Working Women’s Network, and Yale African American Affinity Group for an information session with Brittany Baines, Founder and Executive Director of Phenomenal I Am, Inc. (PIA).

Phenomenal I Am is a youth-led organization with the mission to address the emotional, social, and overall student engagement needs of “at-risk” female youth ages 9-18 of New Haven, CT.

A Woman of Endurance

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group, Working Women’s Network, and Yale Latino Networking Group for a conversation with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa about her new book A Woman of Endurance.

A Woman of Endurance illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves. It is ultimately, a novel of the triumph of the human spirit even under the most brutal of conditions.

YAAA Book Club Discussion - Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a book club discussion of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall.

Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the “powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.

Register by Friday, February 25th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!

Afro-Peruvian Family Dance Class

In honor of Black History Month, join the Yale African American Affinity Group, Future Leaders of Yale, Working Women’s Network, and Yale Latino Networking Group for an Afro-Peruvian Family Dance Class with Cunamacué.

Attendees will learn to dance the Festejo (the most popular and festive rhythm within Afro-Peruvian culture), and about instruments that are unique to Afro-Peruvian music. All ages are welcomed.

Cunamacué is an Afro-Peruvian dance company based in Oakland, California that is dedicated to promoting Afro-Peruvian culture through its music and dance.

Wonderful Books and Where to Find Them!

The New Haven Free Public Library, in partnership with the Yale Affinity Groups, is excited to bring you this book club for families focusing on topics of social importance! This month we focus on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a sharing of Ohana Means Family, by Ilima Loomis. Come for the reading, stay for the discussion! Join us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/NHFPL, or in the Children’s Room at the Ives Main Library. Questions? Call (203) 946-8129.

Wonderful Books and Where to Find Them!

The New Haven Free Public Library, in partnership with the Yale Affinity Groups, is excited to bring you this book club for families focusing on topics of social importance! Come for the reading, and stay for the
discussion! Questions? Call (203) 946-8129. This event will take place at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St., on the first or second Saturdays at 11 am.

Wonderful Books and Where to Find Them!

The New Haven Free Public Library, in partnership with the Yale Affinity Groups, is excited to bring you this book club for families focusing on topics of social importance! Come for the reading, and stay for the
discussion! Questions? Call (203) 946-8129. This event will take place at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St., on the first or second Saturdays at 11 am.