Biography
OrLando Yarborough is director of BioLaunch CT, a bioscience job-training program at the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology, Inc., in New Haven. He serves as a global teams coach and IPD (interpersonal and group dynamics) facilitator at the Yale School of Management. He is also a leadership consultant, scientist and faith leader. Since 2015 he has ministered as the pastor of the Black Church at Yale, a student-run church under the umbrella of the University Chaplain’s office.
Yarborough serves on the volunteer leadership boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the Yale Alumni Association, Students and Alumni of Yale (STAY), Friends Center for Children, New Haven Public Schools, and the Meyerhoff Alumni Advisory Board for the UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars Program — a national model to increase diversity among future leaders in science, engineering and related fields. He mentors current Yale students and alumni, and serves on the nominating, selection and events committees for the annual Yale Alumni Association Public Service Award.
Yarborough majored in Biological Sciences and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), earned his PhD in Genetics from Yale, and completed a Yale postdoc in Internal Medicine. He and his wife Rashele (Yale ’12 MD, ’12 PhD) and their two children live in New Haven.
