YANA Podcasts

Join YANA for an in-depth discussion with two physicians who have spent their careers working to correct for the many disparities in healthcare access, success, and even professional careers: YANA Board member and community health practitioner, Dr. Patrice Yang ‘98, and University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine founding faculty member and Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Health Equity Leadership at Yale’s School of Management, Dr. Steven Starks SOM ’23.

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As heartbreak in Ukraine continues, the Yale community is working  together in many ways to support this war-torn country.  

On Wednesday, May 25th, YANA spoke with the Yale doctor founders of United For Ukraine  who mobilized immediately to launch a program delivering medical supplies and technology to help the wounded.  We also learned from two Yale School of Management students who raised thousands of dollars through Romanians Help and The Path Forward to send and physically bring supplies and other needed items to women and children fleeing Ukraine.

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More than two years into the ongoing global pandemics of COVID-19, systematic racism, and environmental degradation, the nonprofit and other mission-driven organizations in the Pacific Northwest have worked hard to turn adversity into opportunity. What has worked and what could we do better? What lessons can we all learn to inform the next challenge/s?

The new Yale Alumni Network Alliance Pacific Northwest Chapter, moderated by Sandra Medrano ‘15, engaged in a deep and insightful conversation with environmental conservation leader Nick Hardigg ’99 SOM, communications, engagement, and events professional and small business owner Emee Pumarega ‘95, and capacity builder and social justice advocate Allie Yee ’19 SOM to talk about how their organizations have adapted to the changing environment, provide practical tips for how to pivot when the unexpected happens and make predictions about how organizations may need to continue to evolve in the future. Each panelist shared personal and work stories with candid insight into what they, their organizations, and their clients have been struggling with over the past few years, and the successes they are grateful to embrace.

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We’re already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day at 3 a.m. because it’s too hot to work past noon. Chinese investors are snapping up real estate in Canada. Millennials have evacuation plans. Moguls are building bunkers. Retirees in Miami are moving inland.

Join us for insights from the Yale Program Climate Change Communication into regional differences in public knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior, and the underlying psychological, cultural, and political factors that influence them. 

Discover how the Business Council on Climate Change fosters innovative approaches to collaboration and best practices with members such as Google, Salesforce, and Autodesk. What are current trends in climate change goal setting, supply chain sustainability, and the influence employees, customers and investors have on disclosures?

And learn what you can do to prepare for the change that is accelerating.

SPEAKERS:

• Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of the Environment. He is an expert on public opinion and public engagement with the issues of climate change and the environment. He is also host of the daily radio broadcast, Climate Connections.
• Maura McKnight is the Executive Director of the Business Council on Climate Change (BC3) - a San Francisco based multi-sector partnership dedicated to incubating, scaling, and sharing world-leading solutions to address climate change. An action-oriented leader, she has spent 18 years working at the intersection of climate, energy, technology, conservation, business development and social impact.
• David Pogue ‘85 is a six time Emmy winner for his stories on CBS Sunday Morning, a five-time TED speaker, host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS, and creator/host of the podcast Unsung Science. He has also written or co-written more than 120 books including How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos.

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When COVID struck two years ago, two courageous young people saw and seized the opportunity to transform adversity into positive social change. Kristin Urquiza started Marked By COVID to give a voice to the voiceless after the tragic and unnecessary death of her father Mark Urquiza from the disease. Liam Elkind launched Invisible Hands to deliver groceries, medicine, and other necessities to shut-ins throughout New York City during the lockdown. They each overcame countless obstacles at the height of COVID to build thriving organizations - and two years later both programs have national exposure and impact. In this virtual town hall, Kristin and Liam discuss the lessons learned over the past two years. Facilitated by YANA’s Executive Director Rachel Littman ’91. 

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ADDICTION RECOVERY: Healing Through Compassion and Community

Addiction in the US was already at a crisis level when Covid struck. The pandemic fueled an increase in financial insecurity and social isolation, triggering a surge in addiction rates. On February 23rd, YANA’s Town Hall will address addiction for the first time by describing how two Yale-related nonprofits are using community-based approaches to support recovery.  

Rabbi Iggy Gurin-Malous, CEO of the T’shuvah Center in New York, and

Daniel J. McDermott ’76, Executive Director of Florida Lawyers Assistance in South Florida, will describe how both secular and non-secular recovery programs can be effective in treating addiction. 

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Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the US evacuated more than 75,000 Afghans to the United States. This is truly a historic effort, second in scale only to the Vietnamese resettlement in the 1970’s and made especially difficult by our dismantled resettlement infrastructure – and housing crunch.

The trauma suffered by the Afghans -- first, life in a war-torn country, abrupt departure, loss of community; and now, unfamiliar language, culture, and future -- all of this is unimaginable for those of us who do not share such lived experience.

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Richard Mollica (Yale Div MAR), Director of the Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma on the importance of storytelling in helping to heal trauma. Learn what the resettlement process is today – and hear the stories of Afghan natives who are working to help their countrymen begin new lives in the U.S.

SPEAKERS:

• Khalil A Arab – SIVs & Allies Program Manager, Combined Arms, Houston TX
• Shabana Basij-Rasikh – President of SOLA (School of Leadership Afghanistan)
• Chris George, Executive Director, IRIS, Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, New Haven, CT
• Richard Mollica, MD, Yale Div MAR - Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital
• Hossna Samadi, IRIS Ambassador
• Dr. Kaveh Khoshnood – Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale School of Public Health (moderator)

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Urban parks and natural areas have never been more important for our collective sanity than during Covid. On January 26th, two alums from the Yale School of the Environment - Sarah Charlop-Powers ’09 MEM and Georgia Silvera-Seamans ’01 MEM - will describe what they and their organizations are doing to protect our urban ecosystems and the biodiversity that inhabit them.
 
SPEAKERS

Sarah Charlop-Powers is the co-founder and executive director of the Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC), a nonprofit dedicated to managing New York City's 20,000 acres of forests and wetlands. The NAC is a pioneer in the field of urban conservation, using data and science to develop new ways to manage urban natural areas so that they provide recreation opportunities for diverse users, protect biodiversity, and provide environmental benefits. Sarah has a BA in Economics from Binghamton University and an MEM from the Yale School of Forestry.

Georgia Silvera-Seamans lives and breathes city trees--with field experience in New Haven, Boston, Oakland, and NYC, and a dissertation about urban forestry policy in Northern California cities. Georgia's research has been published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening and Arboriculture & Urban Forestry. She is the founder of Local Nature Lab and directs Washington Square Park Eco Projects where she designs urban ecology programs for New Yorkers of all ages. Georgia also writes about trees with bylines in City Trees and about birds with articles at Popular Science and Audubon.

Co-sponsored by YANA & Yale Blue Green

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Join us for a conversation about how we advance the success of under-resourced students. How do we define educational success? What challenges exist at each juncture along the educational journey -- entering college, as an undergraduate, and post-collegiate -- and how are higher ed academic institutions providing resources and services to support success and ensure students are prepared to accomplish their current and future academic, personal, and professional goals?

We will hear from a current student, recent grad, and two professionals working at nonprofits whose work uses various approaches to respond to the needs and challenges in this space. We also hope to highlight actionable opportunities for further engagement.

SPEAKERS:

• Ellie Dupler ‘16 (recent alum), Fulbright and Truman Scholar; Law clerk, US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
• Nick Randos ‘23 (current undergrad)
• Liana Epstein ‘14, Associate Major Gifts Officer, American Indian College Fund
• Lise Pfeiffer Chapman ‘81, President, 1stGenYale

Moderated by Seth Zimmerman MA '10 M.Phil ‘11 PhD ‘14, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management
 
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Co-sponsored by YANA & 1stGenYale

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Join the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance for an intimate Evening Tea with Jeff Russell SOM ‘08, Founder and CEO of Jitasa, a certified B-Corp that offers bookkeeping and accounting services exclusively to nonprofits, and author of Do What You Do Best: Outsourcing as Capacity Building in the Nonprofit Sector (2013). 

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