YANA Podcasts

Join the YANA Bay Area Chapter for an in-depth discussion with leading experts on food insecurity causes and solutions. The program examines food insecurity from the lens of two major SF Bay Area community food banks, international warehousing and supply chain solutions, and a nonprofit that aids organizations to provide meals in San Francisco.

Panelists:

• Lenore Estrada ’05 (Co-Founder/Board President, SF New Deal)
• Gabrielle Tiven ‘04 (Senior Partner, LIDD)
• Regi Young (Executive Director, Alameda County Community Food Bank)
• Tanis Crosby (Executive Director, San Francisco-Marin Food Bank)
• Nafisa Kabir ’25

Panel moderated by Eleanor Evans Pepples ‘86, YANA Bay Area Chair and
Yale Club of San Francisco Board Director

Join us for compelling discussions about best practices, trends, and careers in the social impact space.

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Margaret Laws (President & CEO, HopeLab), Mary Giliberti LAW ’92 (Chief Public Policy Officer, Mental Health America), Philip Corlett (Assoc. Prof, Yale University Center for Mind and Brain Health), Hilary Blumberg (John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Psychiatry, and in the Child Study Center and of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Director, Mood Disorders Research Program, Yale University) discuss advances, innovations and solutions, well-being, tech investment, public policy progress, and information for friends and families with regard to suicide prevention and mental health. Panel moderated by Eleanor Evans Pepples ’86, YANA Bay Area Chair and Yale Club of San Francisco Board Director.

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Join us for a  wide exploration and deep dive into forms of impact investing, social/development impact “bonds” and the ways in which social impact capital is being resourced and used not only to treat symptoms and outcomes of social problems, but to reduce and prevent the harms many nonprofits are treating and working to fix.

Speakers:

• Andrea Schorr (Yale College ’93) currently works on grant and impact investment funding for Develop Detroit
• Jim Seymour (Yale College '69), Managing Partner of Pontefract Global Strategies 

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Listen to this engaging conversation with David Van Zandt, the innovative and strategic leader of higher education institutions Northwestern School of Law and The New School.

Bio:
David Van Zandt was the longest-serving and most strategic Dean of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law from 1995 - 2010, and then with equal vision, President of the New School from 2011 - 2020, where he transformed those institutions’ approach to their forms of education.  

Prior to his academic leadership roles, David was a Professor of Law at Northwestern University, an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell, Law Clerk to the Hon. Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court, Law Clerk, Hon. Pierre N. Leval , U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (now U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) and Lecturer in Sociology, University of London.

David received an AB summa cum laude in Sociology from Princeton University, a PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, and a JD, Yale University where he was the managing editor of the Yale Law Journal.  He is the author of numerous legal articles and presentations, and a book, Living in the Children of God, based on his doctoral dissertation about the time he spent living with a radical religious group in England and the Netherlands.

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Founders Series: Advancing Peace, Education, 
Community Impact, and Working Waterfronts 

Thinking about starting a nonprofit? Curious to know what it’s like to create one? Then listen to the stories of these four nonprofit founders and learn from their successes, failures, and advice on venturing into nonprofit entrepreneurship.Each panelist represents a different school from the Yale community (College, School of Management, Divinity, Environment), and all were compelled to follow their inner calling to address the issues before them.

• Jeremy Chiappetta (SOM ’02), co-founder of Blackstone Valley Prep, Rhode Island’s first Mayoral Academy that successfully brings together suburban and urban students; 
• Nimisha Ganesh (YC ‘15), Co-Founder of GenUnity, a community leadership non-profit based in Boston that supports and empowers diverse, everyday adults to unpack why local issues exist and develop their capacity to drive structural change; 
• Yvonne Lodico (DIV ‘09), founder of Grace Initiative Global, a peace-building initiative based in VT, and a logical off-shoot of the work she did for years at the UN, and inspired by the concept of “grace”-- a source of sustainable healing and love – that she explored while at Yale Divinity School; and 
• Rebecca Rundquist (FES ’02), based in Maine, advocating for local trees and working waterfront communities as a means to maintain local economic diversity, she founded two different kinds of nonprofits: the Frank Knight Foundation and the Sea Meadow Marine Foundation.

Join us for compelling discussions about best practices, trends, and careers in the social impact space.

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YANA EVENING TEA
Don Chen '89, FES '92, President, Surdna Foundation
Paul Sabin ‘92, Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Prof. of History; Prof. of American Studies, Yale

Don Chen and Yale Professor Paul Sabin discuss nonprofit advocacy and the public interest movement since the 1960s, with a focus on Prof. Sabin's most recent book Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism.

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An in-depth discussion on the factors that contribute to economic inequalities and some of the policies and interventions that promote economic mobility.  We are joined by experts in health, tax, economics, sociology, and social and racial justice:

• Charles (“Charlie”) Homer ‘76 – health policy and practices; EMPathways, https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-homer-24bb54b/
• Prof. Zach Bleemer, SOM – higher education and affirmative action, https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/zachary-bleemer
• Marcus Haymon ‘05 – philanthropy and economic mobility; racial and gender equity
• Prof. Rourke O’Brien, Yale Dept. of Sociology – causes and consequences of social and economic inequalities; economic policy as health policy

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Hear from three inspiring students who are thoughtfully engaging in summer internships to serve communities and under-represented individuals.  They are smart, reflective, and committed to pursuing justice as they develop the skills they need for their future social impact careers.

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Victoria Chen is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of BridgeYear, a Houston-based nonprofit that connects underserved youth to careers and educational opportunities that lead to economic stability and independence.

Mike Flanagan is the CEO of the Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC), a diverse and fast-growing network of schools collaborating to scale the use of digital, interactive, competency-based transcripts. 

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On June 28, 2022, YANA hosted law professors Bridget J. Crawford '91 and Emily Gold Waldman '99, authors of a new book, Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods, which explores the burgeoning menstrual advocacy movement and analyzes how the law should evolve to take menstruation into account. The conversation had many further implications than the title might cause you to believe. If you are interested in gender and sex discrimination, constitutional equal protection, the environment, public health, workers and labor rights, poverty and disenfranchisement, racial and economic equity, public education, cultural taboos, bullying, mental health, consumer rights and product safety, and tax and fairness, then this discussion is for you. Participants learned that there are many possible legal avenues through which individuals, and nonprofit organizations like those in the YANA community can pursue to help address the many larger issues close to our missions. As our guests have written in their book: “Menstruation is a threshold justice issue.” 

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