“I’ve always seen journalism as a public service,” says Emily G. Harris ’89 B.A., one of four Yale alumni currently working at the multiplatform journalism project Reveal. “It’s a way to bridge the divide, and provide information for a better-informed...
Email missives from Josh Perez-Cruet ’20 B.S., one of the intramural (IM) secretaries of Grace Hopper College, read like calls to battle. Font size veers wildly from 12pt to 36, and the indiscriminate use of rainbow colors recalls the dizzy days of early...
When Gavin Schiffres ’15 B.A. set out to launch a charter school in St. Louis, he drew inspiration from his undergraduate experience at Yale. Kairos Academies — opening this summer — will admit 6th graders to start, with other grades to follow. The school...
With its roots planted firmly in Eastern European folk traditions, the Yale Slavic Chorus may seem an unlikely candidate as a feminist organization on campus. But behind the full skirts and peasant blouses, and the resonant, melodic harmonies, lies a...
In 1969, when the Asian American Students Alliance (AASA) was cofounded by Rocky Chin ’71 M.C.P., Lowell Chun-Hoon ’71 B.A., Don Nakanishi ’71 B.A., and Alice Young ’71 B.A., there were fewer than 60 Asian American students at Yale College, and no courses...
Ofer Levy ’88, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, can trace his lifelong interest in infectious diseases to the research he did at Yale under the mentorship of I...
Susan Lennon ’85 M.P.P.M., chair of YaleWomen, remembers the moment when the group was effectively born. It was in 2010 at a conference called “Celebrating Yale Women: 40 Years in Yale College, 140 Years at Yale” and Linda Lorimer ’77 J.D., former...
When Patricia Melton ’83 B.A. first came to Yale in 1977, she was just trying to survive. She’d grown up in Cleveland as one of seven kids, and her mother passed away following a serious car accident when Melton was just 12. Through a program called A...