When Jesse Washington ’92 B.A. was a student at Yale in the late 1980s, he witnessed African-American men ascending to new positions of power in sports.
Among them was John Thompson Jr., coach of Georgetown University’s basketball team, the first African-...
Alice Young ’71 B.A., founder and principal at Alice Young Advisory LLC, describes being one of the first women students at Yale, and one of only nine Asian Americans in her class at the height of the Vietnam War. “I think people were thinking, ‘What is...
New York Times assistant managing editor Monica Drake ’94 B.A. made history in 2018 when she became the first black woman on the paper’s masthead. She had joined the paper in 1998 as an intern, later becoming a copy editor, Culture Desk writer, and senior...
Jane Sachs ’73 B.A., ’74 M.A., a clinical and forensic psychologist, found her home at Yale in Russian courses and the newly formed Yale Slavic Chorus. “The involvement of all things Slavic and Russian took hold of me,” said Sachs, whose mother was from...