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The Yale-Jefferson Awards are presented annually, recognizing sustained public service that is individual, innovative, impactful, and inspiring. The recipients are three Yalies – a Yale College student, a graduate or professional school student, and a member of the alumni body – all of whom have demonstrated service that draws on the Yale community and benefits the world beyond Yale.

Join us for this inaugural event as part of Celebrate Service Week, as we honor the 2021 award winners. They have made an impact in so many ways – empowering people experiencing homelessness and participating in local housing justice advocacy; increasing access to educational resources and opportunities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM); improving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); and providing innovative healthcare, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this virtual interactive session, we will celebrate these honorees with a virtual awards ceremony followed by a fireside chat, where they will share their stories and discuss the impact of their service engagement. In addition, our award participants will talk about their work in the context of today's challenges, including the COVID landscape, and ways to get involved.

Moderator 

Orlando Yarborough III, '10 PhD

Panelists / 2021 Yale Jeff Winners 

Nicky Brussel Faria '21
Paola V. Figueroa-Delgado '24
Margaret Flinter '80 MSN 

YAA's service initiatives is excited to welcome new volunteer co-chairs for Yale Day of Service, Karen Green '78 and Rob Greenly '83 MBA, as part of the first-ever "Celebrate Service Week." Green and Greenly will share what service means to them and how they hope to continue engaging Yalies in the longstanding tradition of service to communities.

The Yale Day of Service program, now entering its 13th year in operation, offers Yalies the opportunity to connect with fellow alums, friends, families, and community members to improve the places where Yalies live and work.

No registration necessary. Watch live on YouTube. 

Hear about a new literacy effort organized by Yale Alumni Service Corps and Amandla Development for promising students in grades 7 and 9 in the township of Philippi, an underserved community on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa.

Due to the legacy of apartheid education, most kids in Philippi are not exposed to a culture of reading, making literacy a major challenge. To encourage reading and develop comprehension, the students read Kwame Alexander's Crossover series. After completing the series, Yale volunteers and local mentors, led by YASC veterans Ann Kennedy PhD and Judy Kessen Crawford ’76, used fun and interactive activities to encourage engagement.

Join us for a virtual discussion of this program as part of Celebrate Service Week and hear Ann and Judy share their experiences, discuss lessons learned, and identify ways to improve future sessions.

The panel will also include Andrew Burgie ’87, trip producer for YASC Puerto Rico 2023, who will discuss expanding the reach of this program with a virtual book club for students in underserved communities in San Juan. The project will be organized in collaboration with Instituto Nueva Escuela (New School Institute), a nonprofit organization whose mission is bringing Montessori education to public schools and supporting the families of enrolled students.

Join Yale Alumni Service Initiatives, Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance (YANA), and Dwight Hall at Yale in celebrating five years of successful partnership expanding opportunities for Yale students to create social change. Building upon the framework of the Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship program that transformed community engagement at Yale in 1968 and has operated for more than 50 years, YANA’s collaborative vision and its networks of support have expanded the program in three key ways: to include seniors who recently graduated, to sponsor engagement with organizations outside of Greater New Haven, and to generally grow the reach and impact of the Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship program.

The joint YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship provides summer funding to Yale undergraduates and recently graduated seniors for public service and justice-oriented positions. Applicants must have a demonstrated financial need and those who face barriers to exploring opportunities in the nonprofit and social sectors are strongly encouraged to apply. Fellows convene for weekly meetings and receive mentoring and guidance from YANA leaders and Dwight Hall’s professional staff.

This panel honors the work that recent YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellows have accomplished and explores the impact that YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellows feel that the program has had on their academic and career trajectory. It will be moderated by Dwight Hall’s Director of Programming and Evaluation Mark Fopeano.

PANELISTS:
Olivia Paschal '18
History PhD Candidate, UVA

Trinh Truong '19
Cofounder, Bakhita Center

Luisa Graden '20
Fulbright Grantee in Madrid