For students in the “Intro to Public Humanities” class, the city of New Haven is their classroom. Instead of cramming for a final before Christmas break, they are “putting something out into the world,” says Ryan André Brasseaux ’11 Ph.D., dean of...
Juan Carlos (“JC”) Salinas ’03 M.F.A. knew little about life outside of Texas when his advisor, Melba Martinez, at the University of Texas-Austin where he studied theater, suggested he apply to the Yale School of Drama. He’d grown up in the small, low-...
“There is something delicious and intuitive about storytelling that relies only on sound,” says Bonnie Antosh ’13 B.A., playwright and Shakespearean actor who works as literary manager for the live theater podcast “Playing on Air.” Each episode features a...
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...
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...