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Wonderful Books and Where to Find Them!

The New Haven Free Public Library, in partnership with the Yale Affinity Groups, is excited to continue this new book club for families focusing on topics of social importance! This month we focus on Immigration with a reading of Introducing Islandborn by Junot Díaz. Come for the reading, and stay for the discussion! Questions? Call (203) 946-8129. No registration is required. Join us via the Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97875618425?pwd=VU13MDM3OGJmV3VEVUdXdjRuN1FFUT09#success

Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group, Asian Network at Yale, Working Women’s Network, Yale Latino Networking Group, and New York University Women of Color Leadership Network for a conversation with Minda Harts about her new book Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace.

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 new book club for families focusing on topics of social importance! This month we focus on PRIDE with a reading of Introducing Teddy, by Jessica Walden. Come for the reading, and stay for the discussion! Questions? Call (203) 946-8129. No registration is required. Join us via the Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97875618425?pwd=VU13MDM3OGJmV3VEVUdXdjRuN1FFUT09#success.

Lunch & Learn - Hypersexualization of Asian American Pacific Islander Women

Join the Asian Network at Yale, Working Women’s Network, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and Yale-China for a lunch and learn panel discussion on the hypersexualization of Asian American women in America, racial injustice, inequities, and how to show up as an ally for the AAPI community. Our panelists are Professor Mary Lui, Yale Professor of American Studies and Head of Timothy Dwight College, and Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF).

Mother's Day Outreach

Yale’s Affinity Groups, New Haven Fire Department, New Haven Police Department, and Yale New Haven Health are partnering to collect toiletries and cosmetics for mothers at New Reach, the Kinship Program, and Christian Community Action Agency. Items are being collected from Monday, March 15 through Monday, May 3, 2021.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions we are unable to accept in person donations. Please order items from our wish list on the link below, and have them delivered directly to: New Haven Fire Department, Attention: Lt. Meade, 105 Fountain St., New Haven, CT 06515.

2021 Greater New Haven Heart Walk Digital Experience

We’re all aware or how our lives are different now due to COVID-19 and this year’s Greater New Haven Heart Walk celebration will be too. While the traditional event will not be held in person this year, we are just as excited because we want this to be the biggest Heart Walk you’ve seen yet. Together, we will reach more people, stay active, and raise critical funds to save lives, and we will do so in fun, new ways.

Amplified Voices

In celebration of Black History Month, the Yale Women’s Athletic Network and Yale Bulldogs for Change have partnered to host a guest panel highlighting Black Yale athletics alumni. The discussion will include their Black student-athlete experience at Yale, authentic allyship, navigating their careers, supporting Black women, leadership, and their motivation for social justice and community building.
Featuring:
Patricia Melton ’83 (Women’s Track & Field)
Francine Chew ’00 (Women’s Crew)
Stephany Reaves-Couper ’10 (Women’s Track & Field)

Black Futures, Feminist Solidarities

Join us for this virtual discussion with Margo Okazawa-Rey—educator, writer, and social justice activist—who will be discussing the importance of and steps to building feminist solidarities to resist gendered, racialized, classed violence, militarism, and conflict in the U.S. and across the world. A founding member of the Combahee River Collective and well known for her transnational feminist advocacy, Prof.

Better Together: Demystifying Protect & Serve

Join Yale’s eight affinity groups for a community-building panel discussion with representatives from Yale and New Haven law enforcement leaders.

#YaleSOMBlackOut: A Conversation with Lofton Holder ‘90, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Pine Street Alternative Asset Management and Jamila Abston '17, Partner at Ernst & Young LLP

In honor of Black History Month, the MBA for Executives and SOM Community & Inclusion are hosting a virtual panel discussion with SOM alumni Lofton Holder ‘90, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Pine Street Alternative Asset Management and Jamila Abston ‘17, Partner at Ernst & Young LLP.