Yale Postdoctoral Trainees

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for beginner yoga and meditation. Learn essential stretches to relieve your muscles of tension and relax with Taylor Sykes.

Delve into the stereotypes that black women in American have faced both past and present and how they shape our perceptions of each other and ourselves. Led by Jameela Jackson and Mackenzi Davis, learn the burdens placed on black women and what we can do to change it.

This conversation will be informational for our friends and allies who would like to help change the way the world sees and treats black women.

Join DiversAbility at Yale, Working Women’s Network, Yale African American Affinity Group, and WorkLife for a panel event that will feature university staff sharing their experiences of parenting a child with a disability. Topics will include: successful parenting techniques, child advocacy, educational resources, self-care, family networks, and more.

Join this live information session that will explore the many features that make up the Yale Parent Network. Some of the topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to: what’s happening in our community via the Dashboard, how to get to know other Yale parents, how to ask questions and get answers from our community, how to live more economically with the classifieds section. All of these, and more, will be part of this session. You don’t want to miss! A Zoom link will be sent to you in advance of the session.

Zoom is a video conferencing and virtual meeting software that can help you facilitate both meeting and events. Come and learn about the best practices and functionality embedded in the Zoom tool and ways in which to secure your meetings, events, trainings, etc.

Join this live information session that will explore the many features that make up of the Yale Parent Network. Some of the topics to be discussed we will discuss include, but are not limited to, • See what’s happening in our community via the Dashboard • How to get to know other Yale parents • How to ask questions and get answers from our community • How to live more economically with the classifieds section All of these, and more, will be part of this session you don’t want to miss! A zoom link will be sent to you in advance of the session.

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. New Haven Metropolitan Chapter, and New Haven Club, Inc. of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc., for an overview of financial literacy.
Financial freedom begins with proper financial education. Attendees will: understand the true meaning of financial freedom and independence overall; learn from skilled professionals from People’s Bank; and receive an overview of financial literacy, investing, budgeting, debt management, credit health, and more.

Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant is the true story of the challenges and triumphs of the first class of women at Yale College. Through stories and conversation, author Anne Gardiner Perkins, Connie Royster ’72, and former Assistant Dean Betsy Thomas will highlight the strength, resilience, and courage of those groundbreaking women and their lasting impact on Yale. Join the Working Women’s Network and Yale African American Affinity Group for this engaging, educational, and empowering event.

Join us for this virtual discussion with Margo Okazawa-Rey—educator, writer, and social justice activist—who will be discussing the importance of and steps to building feminist solidarities to resist gendered, racialized, classed violence, militarism, and conflict in the U.S. and across the world. A founding member of the Combahee River Collective and well known for her transnational feminist advocacy, Prof.

Please join the Yale Latino Networking Group, Work Life, Future Leaders of Yale, and Working Women’s Network to kick off our yearlong initiative to lead a healthier lifestyle.
Not an avid fitness guru? Not to worry!! Personal Trainer, Cheri Eleazer, will guide us by providing easy to follow exercise techniques. Bringing her extensive knowledge in the fitness industry, Cheri will offer exercises that you can incorporate into your daily routine ultimately building up strength for a more strenuous exercise, if you wish, if not, modifications will be offered.