Hosted by the Yale Healthcare Society

Join the Yale Healthcare Society in its kickoff event of the semester, a roundtable discussion in which we will be exploring the rising cost of health care, what influences increased spending and the creation of a sustainable system. We will briefly investigate the different players in both domestic and international health care systems in an effort to ascertain what will constitute an effective, efficient system on the eve of an overhaul of the system.

All are welcome to join and participate! Refreshments will be served.

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Join us for a talk with Dr. Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya, Rwandas Minister of Gender and Family Promotion

Dr. Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya is Rwanda's Minister of Gender and Family Promotion. Prior to this appointment, she served as Rwanda's Minister of Education; Minister of State in Charge of Higher Education; Minister of State in Charge of Primary and Secondary Education in the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Scientific Research; Administration Secretary in Charge of Hydrocarbons, Department of Energy in the Infrastructure's Ministry, MININFRA (formerly MINITRAPE), Rwanda; and was Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Faculty of Education, Department of Biology & Chemistry at the National University of Rwanda.

Interested in helping shape the long term vision and programming of the largest student-run organization in the country, a major non-profit operating in New Haven and around the world, the center for social justice and public service at Yale?  Apply to be a student Board Member on the Dwight Hall at Yale Board of Directors!

If you are involved in any one of Dwight Hall's 85+ member groups and institutional programs, you are qualified to apply to the position.  You do not have to have led a group at Dwight Hall.  This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in the non-profit management aspect of public service, social justice, and advocacy!

Please email This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript for an application, due by March 6th at Midnight.

Join college students from all over New England for a week of rebuilding in New Orleans. During the days we will serve in partnership with local organizations in New Orleans. The evenings will include discussions of Jesus' teachings about poverty, faith, and service. This trip is open to people from any or no religious background. It is a great opportunity to serve in a practical way, to explore the intersection of faith and justice, and to hang out for a week with some great people! Sponsored by Yale Christian Fellowship.        

For More Info / To Register: http://intervarsityne.org/krup/. We will leave New Haven on Friday evening, March 5 and return Sunday afternoon, March 14. We will travel by bus.

Cost: $495 ($125 additional discount for anyone who is not a member of Yale Christian Fellowship and is coming on this trip for the first time). Fundraising help and some need-based partial scholarships are also available (masters offices are often willing to help, too); contact Greg ( This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript ) for more info.

The IvyLife-Yale Referral Network offers Yale alumni a chance to engage in professional networking via online and in-person forums.  Beginning Friday, March 5, 2010, all Yale alumni are invited to meet on Friday mornings at 8:15am in the Yale Club of NYC's Grill Room for meetings of the IvyLife - Yale Referral Network for coffee and professional conversation on strategies, contacts, and other business topics for general networking, building a business, or effecting career change.

Reserve your place by the preceding Wednesday (for this week, March 3) by sending an RSVP to Holland Sullivan, IvyLife - Yale Referral Network's Global Director,  This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

The Public Service/Social Justice Committee is proud to participate in Project Cicero's 10th Annual Book Drive. Project Cicero has distributed nearly 1,300,000 books to under-resourced New York City public schools and others in need by creating or supplementing school and classroom libraries.

We need 30 volunteers to sort donated books into appropriate categories while meeting and re-connecting with fellow Yalies. Two shifts are available on March 6 and 7. If interested, please register at http://tinyurl.com/yd7p53b. Children 13 and above are welcome to join their parents to help out.  If you are interested in donating books for the drive, please visit www.yaamny.net/13529. 

For further information, please contact our veteran Cicero volunteer and Team Leader Matthew Haiken (BK '86) at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  or Amanda Taffy at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  or visit http://projectcicero.org.

The Association of Yale Alumni Presents:
Special Preview of the new opera Before Night Falls and discussion with Composer Jorge Martin '81

Sponsored by: YAAMNY, Yale GALA, Yale Latino Alumni Association, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program

Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls, an opera based on the memoirs of Reinaldo Arenas, the gay, Cuban, dissident author who died of AIDS in New York in 1990, premiers at the Fort Worth Opera in May 2010 (www.fwopera.org). The opera follows the life of Arenas from his time as a rebel in the Cuban revolution to his eventual escape to and death in the United States and explores issues of sexuality, ethnicity, and immigration. Yale Opera students Chrystal Williams ’10 MUS, Eric Barry ’10 MUS and Vince Vincent ’10 MUS will perform excerpts from the work. Following the performance, we will have a conversation with composer Jorge Martin ’81 and a reception.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW here: http://beforenightfalls.eventbrite.com/

The Educational Programs Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York is engaged in planning educational enrichment programs for New York City area alumni. If you are interested in crafting first-rate, engaging, and intellectually stimulating programs with fellow Yale alumni, you are warmly invited to the join the Committee. If you would like to join, please contact the Committee at: This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript . All are welcome.

THE ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN YALE ALUMNI CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE YEAR OF THE TIGER 2nd ANNUAL LUNAR NEW YEAR BANQUET/FUNDRAISER. All alumni (not only those of Asian decent) and guests are welcome!
 
Banquet will be a sumptuous and elegant twelve course gourmet Chinese feast including Peking Duck, Fresh lobster and snow crab claws. Tickets are $100/person.   Proceeds from this event will support summer interns who will work at NYC non-profit organizations serving the Asian community. Please see website for further details:  www.aaaya.org

Co-sponsored by The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York

The Yale Club of New York City, the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY), and Market New Haven bring an international extravaganza to the Yale Club for a special event open to all Yale alumni. Enjoy a sampling of award winning cuisine from 116 Crown (Wine & Small Plates Lounge);  Barcelona (Spanish Wine Bar); bespoke (Modern American Cuisine); Thali (Regional Cuisine of India); Union League Café (Parisian Style Brasserie) and Zinc (Modern American), as well as several passed hors d’oeuvres from the Club’s own Executive Chef, Charles Kehrli.

Complementing New Haven's world class cuisine and Yale's ambition to be a world leading university, the AYA has made it a mission to be a world leading alumni association. New initiatives launched as part of the AYA's strategic plan have placed Yale's alumni relations programs on a world stage in a leading role. AYA Executive Director, Mark Dollhopf '77, will share some of the new global initiatives of the AYA that have sparked the interest of alumni worldwide and given them the opportunity to travel to Australia, Japan, Iceland, and Mexico. You can also learn the specific ways to get involved.

There is a $5 per person charge for this event, payable in cash at the door, plus a cash bar. Please reserve your spot in advance by calling the Yale Club at 212-716-2133 or by emailing  This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript . (Dress Code: business casual ... no jeans, no sneakers).

Hi Dwight Hall!

Welcome to your guide to the Dwight Hall-YCC Week of Service! Below is the calender and event descriptions for a full week of events designed for you to explore service and social justice from many points of view. Give back to our community by taking part in one of the Days of Service or learn about everything from responsible investing to sex trafficking by attending one of the many discussions and movie screenings hosted by the Dwight Hall networks.

Whether you are an avid Dwight Hall volunteer or have never done anything community service or social justice-related before, we encourage you to take part in the events we have this week! Enjoy!

See you out there!

Joe

WED, 3/24 6-9:00 PM Becton Ctr (15 Prospect) Davies Auditorium: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ABORTION 

NOT YET RAIN and VESSEL (followed by speaker forum with the directors Lisa Russell and Diana Whitten)

THURS, 3/25 6-9:00 PM Becton Ctr (15 Prospect) Davies Auditorium:Salud! (with speaker after movie)

FRI, 3/26 6-9:00 PM Anlyan Ctr (300 Cedar) N107 Auditorium: THE ENGLISH SURGEON

SAT (day), 3/27 2-5:00 PM Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, Rm.114,1 Prospect St.: AIDS IN AFRICA

WHERE THE WATER MEETS THE SKY andTHING WITH NO NAME (followed by speaker)

SAT (evening), 3/27 6-9:00 PM Whitney H Ctr (53 Wall Street) Auditorium: THE BLOOD OF YINGZHOU DISTRICT and SHIPBREAKERS

Join your fellow Yalies for an all-class mixer at Retreat Lounge on March 25th, 6:30pm.  It's a chance to catch up with friends, meet new people, flirt and network!!  Appetizers will be provided.  If you are interested in joining the Host Committee (to help publicize the event and assist at the door), please email Audrey Leibovich '97 at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

Please use this link to RSVP:  http://marchalumniparty.eventbrite.com/

Celebrating Yale Women: 40 Years in YaleCollege, 140 Years at YaleUniversitypromises to be an amazing alumni event.  Although designed with Yale alumnae in mind, all graduates (men and women) are welcome.  An incredible program awaits those who register:

. . . Featured speakers including Indra Nooyi '80 MPPM, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo; Margaret Marshall '76 JD, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court; Margaret Warner '71, senior correspondent and on-air anchor, The PBS NewsHour; Karen Lawrence '71, Kim Bottomly, and Carol Christ '70 PhD, presidents of Sarah Lawrence, Wellesley, and Smith, respectively.

. . . Yale faculty presentations from Sharon Oster, Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management; Tamar Gendler '87, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology and Chair of Cognitive Science; Carolyn Mazure, Director, Womens Health Research at Yale; and Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Associate Professor, Department of Physics. 

. . . A special look back at the coeducation of Yale College featuring Elga Wasserman '76 JD, former Special Assistant to the President on Coeducation; Henry "Sam" Chauncey, Jr. '57, former Secretary of the University; and John Wilkinson '60, '63 MAT, former Dean of Students and moderated by Mary Miller '81 PhD, Dean of Yale College.

And more!

Wow!  What a weekend!  Please click here for the full range of details related to the conference and easy, online registration.

As the kickoff event for the Dwight Hall-YCC Week of Service, FCC & FOCUS are sponsor-ing a class-wide day of community service to help get 2013 involved and connected with the needs of the New Haven community! Here's a convenient opportunity for everyone who has been meaning to get involved with community service.

Volunteer sites will include:
Catholic Worker House, Columbus House, Eli Whitney Museum, Life Haven, New Haven Reads Book Bank, East Rock Park and many more!

SIGN ME UP!
Sign ups are available:   
        electronically at   http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGhGTDJuRF9qU3ltZ1A1Y2M1bUFrLXc6MA
        at tables in Commons throughout the week
        with your FCC representatives
Sign up by Wednesday, March 24 and lunch will be provided!

The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee provides a forum where alumni can enjoy, share in, and learn from leading practitioners in the world capital of fine and performing arts, and support alumni in the arts, through regular presentations and events that will offer opportunities for networking and performance. Whether you have won a Pulitzer and travel by limousine or are pushing cabs between auditions, come share your ideas and help create a resource to assist us all in our work.

All are welcome. Please RSVP to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript .

Perspectives on Sustainable and Responsible Investing

SRI, or Socially Responsible Investment, an increasingly important issue on Yales campus and within the investment and activist community as a whole, has turned sustainability and responsi-bility into a viable investment strategies, and turned  capital into an effective tool for social and environmental change.  Join us for a conversation with two experts in the field of sustainable and responsible investing.  

Cary Krosinsky, Vice President of TruCost, the worlds most comprehensive provider of re-search on corporate environmental impact, Cary is a member of the 70 person Expert Group that created the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), which has been commit-ted to by over US$15 Trillion worth of asset managers and owners. He also co-edited and wrote the book Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance' with Nick Robins of HSBC, which features contributions from other leading practitioners.

Graham Sinclair, visiting us from Cape Town, South Africa, is a sustainable investment strate-gist, ESG investment architect and global project leader. His research and advisory engagements model investment architecture integrating environmental, social and governance factors in emerging and frontier markets, especially Africa. Since 2006 Sinclair & Company has delivered design and strategy for the IFC, UN, WBCSD, trillion-dollar investment managers, and interna-tional organizations.

Interested in teaching after college? Currently working with New Haven students?
Join the Education Network of Dwight Hall for a lunch discussion about the benefits and chal-lenges of teaching in an urban context. We will discuss the instructional, curricular, professional, and financial realities in which teachers operate and more. Come with ideas, thoughts, and ques-tions! The discussion will be led by Professor Jonathon Gillette, the Director of Yales Teacher Preparation and Education Studies Program. Wed love to have you join us! Lunch will be served.

Join the Education Network of Dwight Hall and the Black Student Alliance at Yale for a screen-ing of The Marva Collins Story, an inspirational movie that moves beyond the typical teacher-as-savior education movie. Instead, this film tells the true story of how a Chicago educator took on students the system called unteachable and helped them learn how to bring out the best in themselves.

YEI-NYC in collaboration with YAAMNY presents a unique panel discussion + networking reception on the Future of Social Entrepreneurship. Join your fellow Yale alumni entrepreneurs in NYC for interesting conversation, tasty hors d'oeuvres, and sociable libations.

This month's event will feature a panel discussion focusing on the future of social enterprise from an enlightening group of Yale alumni social entrepreneurs, educators, and organizers. We'll get together to engage with the panelists, mingle with other Yale innovators, and talk about the future in Pranna's swanky Cellar Room. We've arranged a drink special, plus a selection of complimentary Asian cuisine hors d'oeuvres.

A $10 donation will be asked for at the door to cover expenses. This event is for Yale alumni and their guests only.

RSVP HERE: http://anyvite.com/fvnx57bq0p

YAAMNY is excited to tell you about this Ivy Plus Society (TIPS) event happening end of March.  TIPS has secured the very trendy club Tenjune for the festivities.  Meet NYC alumni from various schools.  There will be drink specials throughout the night.

For more information, and to RSVP, please go to: http://www.ivyplussociety.org/nyc.html

What are the connections between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin color? Join the Public Health Coalition to explore whether medical care cures us but to see why we get sick in the first place, and why patterns of health and illness reflect underlying patterns of class and racial inequities.

Advocacy Event hosted by Amnesty International

Write to Senators asking for an extension of unemployment benefits for jobless Americans. This action is based on materials from The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a national civil and human rights advocacy and research organization.

Hi Dwight Hall!

You are in the midst of the Dwight Hall-YCC Week of Service! At the top of the newsletter are descriptions for the remaining events this week, all of which are excellent opportunities to explore service and social justice!

This Saturday, give back to our community by taking part in the Yale Day of Service: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFByd0ZVZEFaZ3MtNzEwU0VvVHJpX2c6MA

This is going to be an AWESOME event. We have great volunteer sites where you can make a significant difference.

Whether you are an avid Dwight Hall volunteer or have never done anything community service or social justice-related before, we encourage you to take part in the events we have this week!

See you at the Day of Service!

Joe