Due to overwhelming response, this event has reached capacity.  Thanks to all who signed up, and we look forward to bringing more events like this in the future.

Join the Educational Programs Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) for a discussion and reception with Zeke Vanderhoek, Class of 1998, founder and principal of The Equity Project Charter School.

The Equity Project (TEP) is a charter school that opened in September 2009 located in Washington Heights, New York City. One of TEP's defining features is its teacher compensation - TEP teachers are paid a salary of $125,000 and can earn a significant annual bonus based on school-wide performance.

Mr. Vanderhoek began his educational career as a 6th and 8th grade teacher at I.S. 90, a public middle school in Washington Heights. He has a B.A. from Yale University and a Masters in Philosophy & Education from Teachers College at Columbia University. He was the founder of Manhattan GMAT, a national GMAT test-preparation company.

The discussion will be moderated by urban sociologist Dr. Pedro Noguera, professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU. Dr. Noguera is also the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and the co-Director of the Institute for the study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS).

This will surely be a lively event on school reform that you do not want to miss. Click here to register: http://tepcharterschool.eventbrite.com.

This month's event will get back to our traditional format -- instead of a speaker or panel, we'll get together to mingle, network, and share ideas at Haven, a relaxed (and unique!) Yale-esque cocktail lounge in Midtown. We've arranged a drink special, plus a selection of complimentary hors d'oeuvres. A $10 donation will be asked for at the door to cover expenses.

RSVP HERE: http://meetup.com/yalenyc/calendar/12369005/

Do you want to meet new people, but are tired of loud, crowded bars where you can't hear anyone talk? Here's a chance to socialize with interesting people in a more cozy, intimate setting.

For our second small group dinner, we are taking over all 16 spots at the beautiful communal table at Fig & Olive, a Michelin Guide recommended Mediterranean restaurant. A $48 prix fixe dinner (tax and tip included, drinks extra) will include an appetizer, entree and dessert. This dinner will be for folks from the classes of the 80's and 90's. Come join us!

Please RSVP at http://80s90sdinner.eventbrite.com/

YAAMNY is excited to offer you this new "networking with start-ups" opportunity organized by JOBNOB:

Jobseekers need work. Startups are cash strapped. Mingle and find a solution!

Come "Jobnob" with cool new start ups and talented job seekers at this informal networking happy hour where you can find startup jobs. Be flexible on commitment and compensation - bootstrapped startups may be offering *alternative compensation: reduced rates, equity, internships, part time, etc. There will be alumni and entrepreneurs from many schools, including UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Rutgers, Yale SOM, and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. Companies start pitching at 5pm.

Event is free, but please register here.

*Legal Disclaimer: Jobnob Happy Hour events and www.jobnob.com are for networking informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. Please be sure to check with an employment attorney and abide by all federal, state and local laws.

The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee in collaboration with Insider Expeditions presents After Hours at Museum 52 with Yale School of Art Faculty Daphne Fitzpatrick.

Join Yale School of Art Faculty Daphne Fitzpatrick for an intimate after-hours discussion and aperitif at Museum 52, a critically acclaimed contemporary art gallery on the Lower East Side. Fitzpatrick's work centers on the changing urban environment, as seen from the wandering vantage point of a dandy. In large sculptures, photographs, video and installation, she fuses a morning-after feeling with a keen sense of craft. Ms. Fitzpatrick attended the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Studio Program. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Bellwether, New York and La Galleria at La MaMa, New York. Her work has been exhibited widely at venues including The Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle and the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. She has written for publications including Artforum, and she is the recipient of grants from Art Matters and the Jerome Foundation.

Enjoy the work on display, and a lively discussion of Ms. Fitzpatrick's methods and motives. Early registration $15, or $20 after February 5. Space is limited, and we expect this exclusive, after-hours event to sell out. Register today at http://yaamny-fitzpatrick.eventbrite.com/.

Join us for a cocktail in a unique NYC space - Central Park's historic Arsenal, in front of the Zoo. The Arsenal, home to the Department of Parks & Recreation since 1934, was built in the 1850s to store munitions, and we trust that Feb Club will be the most explosive event in the building's history. Since the building is an office, we will start at 7pm and wrap up at 10pm to allow the dust to settle before morning.

To RSVP and purchase ticket, go to www.febclubemeritus.com

Heads up all you actors, singers, singer-songwriters, musicians, comics... in a word, performers out to make your mark in the Apple. In line with our mandate to bring creative arts folk together, YAAMNY Arts/Entertainment is planning a series of performance parties. We have secured the use of a large pleasant space in Brooklyn, complete with a piano, excellent PA system - and inexpensive food and drink, and will hold an organizational meeting and tryouts for our first Performers' Round-up on Saturday, February 13th. If you want to participate in the round-up, please join us on for this meeting and be ready to give us a sample of what you can do. Performers must limit themselves to 10-12 minutes.

The actual YAAMNY Arts Performers' Round-Up will be in April, details to be posted on the YAAMNY website soon. After the performance there will be time for informal networking. And you don't have to be on stage to come to the performance; just be ready to enjoy yourself and meet alumni/ae in all the arts, all ages, all stages of their careers.

Please notify me ASAP ( This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript ) if you will be joining us on February 13 for try-outs, and tell me what type of performer you are.

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to invite you and your guest to a reception hosted by Jon Butler, Dean of the Graduate School, featuring a conversation on poetry with Elizabeth Alexander '84, Professor, African American Studies, American Studies and English.

Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, cash bar
Professor Alexander's talk will begin at 7:00

R.S.V.P. by February 18 to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript   or (203) 432-7730
Space is limited

Elizabeth Alexander ’84 BA was invited by President Barack Obama to compose and read a poem at his inauguration on January 20, 2009. She is the author of four books of poems, The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American Sublime (2005, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), and a collection of essays on African American literature, painting, and popular culture, The Black Interior (2004). Professor Alexander is an inaugural recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that “contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.” She earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania, and is now chair of the Yale Department of African American Studies.

THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.

The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) is co-sponsoring a program spearheaded by the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York. You are cordially invited to an evening with Professor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss investment opportunities in the wake of the Copenhagen summit.

Professor Sachs will speak on the role of the private sector in driving sustainable investment and offer his thoughts on
-- Where these opportunities exist in the face of political gridlock.
-- How the business community can participate in the development of the sustainability market.
-- The sweet spot for investors, i.e. where business can contribute to sustainability, environmental justice and increased profits.

Professor Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He was recently named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

Register today at: http://www.cbsacny.org/store.html?event_id=810. Yalies should select the "partner" ticket option at $30 per ticket.

The UWS party was the first Feb Club Emeritus party!  Check out the Feb Club website for more details:

www.febclubemeritus.com

The Brooklyn party ends the month!  It will be fun, hip and happening.

Check the Feb Club website for more information:  www.febclubemeritus.com

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 Public Service/Social Justice Committee of the YALE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK is proud to partner with the Yale Club of New York City and the Association of Yale Alumni to sponsor the Second Annual YALE DAY OF SERVICE, on May 15, 2010 (or for certain specified events May 1, May 7, May 16 or May 22 - please click on the Day of Service link below for more details).

On this day, thousands of Yale Alumni, family members and friends will gather to volunteer for meaningful events and projects ranging from the labor intensive (sprucing up parks, planting gardens & painting) to the more intellectually stimulating (reading books to children, assisting with job applications & college applications and tutoring) throughout the New York City Area and around the globe.  During the first global Yale Day of Service (2009), we had the pleasure of helping over 500 Yale Alumni & their family & friends serve at approximately 20 sites throughout the area.

Among the possible activities are park clean-up activities, tutoring, planting gardens, teaching tennis, various walks and assisting with job and college applications. This year we have added more sites including additional child-friendly sites, we have a broader range of activities and have activities on various dates throughout the month of May to allow alumni to participate on the day that best suits them.  Our first event as part of this year's Day of Service, at the Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program, was very well attended with 26 volunteers and 50 children. Mayor Dinkins gave an inspirational introductory speech at this event.It was thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Click here to learn more and register for a Yale Day of Service site in your area.

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.

PLEASE NOTE - DATE CHANGE due to inclement weather (NOW FEB 16)

We wish to invite you to the upcoming Public Service/ Social Justice Committee meeting to discuss many great opportunities for alum to engage in meaningful service projects and advancing social justice.

We are particularly interested in discussing and organizing a fundraiser for the children of Haiti. We ask all alumni to consider donating to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund (www.clintonbushhaitifund.org), Doctors without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org), the United Nations Children's Fund (www.unicefusa.org) or the American Red Cross (www.redcross.org).

The agenda is as follows:
1. Report on January Projects (soup kitchen and mock interview session)
2. Discussion of upcoming events -- considering Haiti Fundraiser
3. Selection of April Project
4. Update regarding Day of Service
5. Social Justice Project Update
6. Discussion of YAAMNY Charity Ball Fundraiser
7. Final Comments

The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee strives to provide 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 .