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Director of Cultural Affairs Adriane Jefferson and her team will discuss their current efforts to undo longstanding racial and cultural inequities in the arts and life. The Cultural Affairs team will also discuss how the Cultural Equity Plan maps out how to go about doing that.

People with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) experience changes in their mood, energy, sleep, weight, and appetite during the winter. Typically these changes begin in fall, reach their worst in December through February, and improve in the spring. Some individuals report changes as early as September, while others report changes beginning later in the fall. Similarly, some find that their symptoms have improved by early spring, while others find that symptoms continue until late spring. Some patients with SAD report their mood worsens with a series of dark days even in the summertime. Dr.

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group and Working Women’s Network for a conversation with Tomiko Brown-Nagin about her new book Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality. This event will be moderated by James Forman Jr., J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Register by Friday, February 25th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Women United, Hopkins School, and Yale University Office of Diversity and Inclusion; featuring Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Investigative Reporter, Andrea Elliott.

Please join the Future Leaders of Yale, Working Women’s Network, and Yale African American Affinity Group for an information session with Brittany Baines, Founder and Executive Director of Phenomenal I Am, Inc. (PIA).

Phenomenal I Am is a youth-led organization with the mission to address the emotional, social, and overall student engagement needs of “at-risk” female youth ages 9-18 of New Haven, CT.

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a book club discussion of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths she must go to—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.

Register by Friday, June 24th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group, Working Women’s Network, and Yale Latino Networking Group for a conversation with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa about her new book A Woman of Endurance.

A Woman of Endurance illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves. It is ultimately, a novel of the triumph of the human spirit even under the most brutal of conditions.

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a book club discussion of Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion by Tiffany Jana and Ashley Diaz Mejias.

Erasing Institutional Bias will help people recognize that each of us has the power to affect systemic bias. Each of us can evaluate our own current role in perpetuating systemic bias and define our new role in breaking down systemic bias.

Register by Friday, March 25th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!

Join the YAAA Social Justice and Social & Networking Sub-Committees, Chi Omicron Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., and The New Haven Club of The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club’s Inc. for an evening of Black trivia via the Kahoot platform. Players can create a team of up to 4 people or play solo. Bring your friends, co-workers, or family to join the event!

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a lunch and learn discussion on how black spatial knowledge and practice appear in literature and art, particularly through experimentations with form, genre, and media. Our guest speaker will be Elleza Kelley, a Postdoctoral Associate in the departments of African American Studies and English at Yale University.