Events Calendar

All around us people are looking at their phones too much, eating too much, drinking too much. For many, the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain. Join Careers, Life, and Yale for an important conversation with Stanford Professor of Psychiatry, Dr. Anna Lembke, about the neuroscience of addiction and how to find balance in a dopamine-overloaded world.

This event is co-sponsored by The Yale Club of New Haven. 

Join fellow Graduate School Alumni for an informal networking event hosted by Careers, Life, and Yale and the Graduate School Alumni Association. GSAS alums will have the opportunity to meet, mingle, and share words of advice. Concurrent thematic break-out rooms will likely include:

• Consulting and finance
• Government organizations and nonprofits
• Pivoting from academia to industry
• Creating or joining a start-up
• Open discussion

This event is open to Graduate School alumni. Please register by March 27th at 12 p.m. ET. 

What do a Georgetown Professor and an Oxford-bound Yale Senior have in common? Marc M. Howard ’93 and JT Mullins Jr. ’23 both share a passion for criminal justice reform. You are invited to join in a conversation with these two inspiring Yalies of different generations, learning about their research and work in what Howard describes as, “restoring humanity to the American criminal punishment system.”

Join Careers, Life, and Yale to hear about the exemplary leadership, vision, and generosity of Donald Roberts.  In a casual and interactive conversation, he will share his story about how his career, life, and Yale experiences intersect and motivate him to continue contributing his time and resources so generously to various causes at Yale and beyond.

Join graphic designer, storyteller, social advocate, and educator Neeta Verma ’91 MFA in an engaging conversation about social design. What role can design play in addressing the problems of our time? How can the artist help us envision a better way? In a world that is evolving rapidly and becoming more global, economies are traversing many boundaries, distances are shrinking, cultures are converging and as a result many socio-economic challenges are becoming a shared predicament that we as humans face today in a ceaseless effort to humanize the dehumanized.

Rather than promote consumption, how can 21st-century design advance sustainability, equity, and responsible future products, systems, organizations, and societies? From working traditionally for the business model of satiating marketing needs and solving communication demands, the designers’ role has expanded from one of being purely a creative force “maker” to one of additionally serving as a “thinker,” facilitator, catalyst or a stakeholder in the newly defined social ecology.

Join the Yale Alumni Association for an exclusive conversation with SOM alumni Claudia Gourdon ’78 MBA, Jill Bauman ’87 MPPM, Fay Chen ’08 MBA, Tony Lynn ’14 MBA, and current student Wei-ru Li ’23 MBA.

When the first class arrived in 1976, the SOM offered a master's degree in public and private management (MPPM) and was called the School of Organization and Management. Over the years the program has changed adding the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and rebranding itself as the School of Management in the 1990s, followed by the creation of the Master of Advanced Management (MAM) degree. Subsequently, a Master of Management Studies (MMS) degree was offered with a variety of track options. More recently the School added the Public Education Management track to its one-year master of management studies (MMS) degree and the SOM's Broad Center, which aims to strengthen the leadership of public school districts, welcomed its first group of students in 2022.

Please tune in for this esteemed panel of alumni representing five decades who will discuss the history of the SOM and share their thoughts and experiences. Much thanks to Matthew Broder ’87 MBA, Chair of the SOM Alumni Advisory Board, and Courtney Lightfoot, SOM's Managing Director of Alumni Relations, who helped convene our guests. J.C. Calderón ’92 MArch, member of the Yale Board of Governors, will moderate the discussion.

While finance is going increasingly digital and decentralized, international trade has faced recent setbacks in the shape of protectionist policies such as the Inflation Reduction Act and security issues interfering with open markets. How do existing regulatory institutions and policy frameworks cope with these rapid changes? And who are the people that shape them? Join Stefan Flückiger, the Swiss Deputy State Secretary for International Finance (SIF), to find out. Drawing on his vast experience as policy planner and high-level negotiator on behalf of Switzerland and representing his country in a number of multilateral organizations, Ambassador Flückiger will map out some of the key features and challenges of the shifting international economic and financial order and how its dynamics, its actors and its instruments have changed. He will discuss Switzerland’s new kind of trade in financial services agreements with the UK following Brexit, and the bright future of finance in Switzerland in an age of digital and sustainable finance.

The session will be co-hosted by Marnix Amand, Senior Lecturer for macroeconomics and the economics of the European Union at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, and Simon M. Ingold ’07 MA, a Jackson graduate and YAA Board of Governors member.

In 2015, inspired by night markets throughout Taiwan, John Wang ’09 JD, ’09 MBA,  founded the Queens Night Market, an open-air night market featuring up to 100 independent vendors selling food, merchandise, and art, and featuring small-scale cultural performances, all celebrating the rich cultural diversity and heritage of NYC and Queens. Now in its eighth season, the wildly popular and uniquely affordable event has launched nearly 400 brand new businesses in NYC and represented over 90 countries through its vendors and their food. The market averages over 15,000 visitors on summer Saturdays and has welcomed well over 2 million visitors since its inception. 

Hear how this former corporate lawyer came to start a culinary and cultural phenomenon that has earned many accolades including: #1 Cheap Eats (New York Times, 2017), #1 Place to Eat Outdoors (NY Magazine, 2019), #9 Best Restaurant in NYC (New York Times, 2023) and how his Yale experience influenced him.

Join us as we hear from Rev. David H. Messner ’95 MBA on “lessons from the very old (the “old-old” as one of my congregants called it) on what constitutes a good life. Lessons that are as meaningful at 25 as at 95. Old-old virtues are like magic in reframing a life of less worry, more ease, and greater generativity--and they often arrive way too late. I’m not talking about how 95-year-olds explain being a good 25 year old but about how they have reconstructed a world and worldview for themselves that is deeply human and sustainable.”