Over the past two years, the Yale Alumni Association has worked with volunteer partners to listen closely to alumni across our community. Throughout the process, feedback indicated that alumni want Yale to be part of their lives in four areas of interest: service, lifelong learning, social connection, and professional development and mentoring. These four points represent the strategic direction of this plan.
In this episode, Alison chats with Indy Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the Yale School of the Environment. Burke shares how the School of the Environment has a structure that supports interdisciplinary work and why Marsh Hall is one of her favorite buildings on campus.
The YAA Public Service Awards recognize sustained public service that is individual, innovative, impactful, and inspiring. The 2026 honorees are S. Zelda Roland ’08, ’10 MA, ’12 MPhil, ’16 PhD; Alaaddin Ibrahimy ’24 MS/MPhil, ’26 PhD; and Irene Kim ’26.
At the second annual Fair, employers from Colorado to Connecticut and Massachusetts to New York, staff from four Yale offices and Yale alumni from Boston and DC came together with students to give them a head start on the path to a stellar summer experience.
The Yale Alumni Association is excited to welcome Arikha Moses ’98 PhD, as the next alumni Chair of one of its signature annual programs, Yale Day of Service. Arikha is a recent member of the YAA Board of Governors and a longtime volunteer leader with both Yale Day of Service and the Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC).
In the video and podcast series “Yale Afternoons with Alison,” Alison Cole ’99, executive director of the YAA, meets with university leaders to learn more about their priorities and how the alumni community can support them.
Here in New Haven and throughout the United States, Yale proudly invests in the people, programs, and research that deliver real and lasting impact in communities across the country.
In this video series, alumni share how they became involved with the YAA and connect with the Yale alumni community.
