Advocacy Program and Guests

Advocacy Talks:

Nicholas Dawidoff, Writer
Michael Morand, Director of Community Engagement, Beinecke Library, Yale
David Blight, Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies, Yale
Justin Elicker, Mayor of New Haven
Mandi Jackson, Co-Executive Director, Music Haven
Suzanne Lagarde, C.E.O., Fair Haven Community Health Care
Jacob Padrón, Artistic Director, Long Wharf Theatre
Eli Sabin, Alder of New Haven, Ward 7
Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emerita of African American Studies and American Studies, Yale
William Ginsberg, President and C.E.O., The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
Daniel HoSang, Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race, & Migration and American Studies, Yale
Claudia Merson, Director of Public Schools Partnerships, Yale
Maria Parente, Yale Pathways to Science Program Manager, Office of New Haven State of Affairs
Douglas Rae, Richard S. Ely Professor Emeritus of Management and Political Science, Yale
Caroline Sarnoff, Executive Director, The Justice Collaboratory, Yale
Frank Snowden, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History, Yale
Rev. Frederick Streets, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Pastoral Theology and former University Chaplain, Yale

Additional committee guests include:

Lee Cruz, Outreach Director, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
Sarah Miller, Fair Haven Alder, Ward 14
Christopher Brown, Director, Yale New Haven Hiring Initiative
Dean Marvin Chun, Dean of Yale College, Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neuroscience
Risë Nelson, Director, Afro-American Cultural Center and Assistant Dean of Yale College
Deborah Stanley-McAulay, Associate Vice President for Employee Engagement and Workplace Culture, Yale
Jack Callahan, Senior Vice President for Operations, Yale
Dean Kerwin K. Charles, Indra K. Nooyi Dean & Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics, Policy & Management, Yale
Gary Desir, Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity; Chair, Department of Internal Medicine; and Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health