Join the Public Service/Social Justice Committee's Haiti Assistance Task Force and be part of some amazing service projects in 2011:� a big sib/lil sib program with the Edeyo School, a service trip to Haiti, a report focused on education for UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in collaboration with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and more!� If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to astridandre@aya.yale.edu.This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

Hear the sensational true story of a mother's fight to rescue her children from a celibate perfectionist sect at a book event for THE GREAT DIVORCE, reviewed by NPR, NY Times, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal.� After a lecture by author Ilyon Woo' 94, actors will deliver testimonials that bring to life a 19th c case that rocked New York. The location is beautiful Fraunces Tavern Museum, site of much Revolutionary War history.� Co-sponsored by YAAMNY, click for more details here.

The YAAMNY Arts Committee provides a forum where alumni can learn from leading practitioners in the world capital of fine and performing arts and support those in the entertainment industry. 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.� Please RSVP to sibile@yaamny.netThis email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript .

Created just last year, the Development Committee hosted our first ever (and fabulously successful) Benefit Soiree, a book talk with best-selling author Ron Chernow, and a spa-sporting event.��Our goals for 2011 are to promote the YAAMNY brand, to be a forum for multi-generational and multi-class interaction, and to raise funds.��Another Benefit Soiree is in the works, as are monthly dinners filled with lively conversations among alumni. Email Anne Moss at anne@yaamny.netThis email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  if you can attend the Feb 7 committee meeting.

ContributeThis email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  to crafting first-rate, thoughtful, and intellectually stimulating educational enrichment programs for alumni and the general public.� Graphic and web design, IT, social media, and audio/ video recording skills are especially of value. We also welcome overtures from alumni involved with educational or cultural institutions that may prove possible partners in developing enrichment programming.� Email yaamnyeducationalprograms@gmail.comThis email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  with your interest and biographical information.

Join Maya Lin ('81, M.Arch. '86, D.F.A. '87), the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) New York Chapter, and YAAMNY at this spectacular eight-course banquet and celebrate the Lunar New Year with fellow Yale alumni, families & friends.� Cocktail reception, dim sum, Peking Duck Sliders and more!� Proceeds will benefit the AAAYA Yale Summer Community Internship Program.� Full details here.