Deborah Bernick ’72 is a healthcare and biotech consultant based in Virginia who transferred to Yale from Smith College in 1969 and was part of the first coed classes at Yale. She became actively involved in promoting sexual health on campus through her work with the Yale Student Committee on Human Sexuality. The pamphlet that she helped write, “Sex and the Yale Student,” was picked up nationally and became “The Student Guide to Sex on Campus.” Bernick and others led 1,000 students from other colleges and universities in a training course on Yale’s campus. As Bernick explains in this video interview, it was critical work. The pill had just become legal in Connecticut and it was a time of “enormous sexual experimentation and liberation.” As Bernick said: “Yale didn’t know all the changes that would happen.”
In her words: Deborah Bernick ’72
Bernick discusses her work promoting sexual health on campus with the Yale Student Committee on Human Sexuality.
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