Connections around the Globe
The Yale International Alliance (YIA) energizes the global community to address the vital issues of our time. Learn more about YIA’s vision, mission, and background here.
International community • Updates & upcoming events
YIA welcomes you all to our inaugural newsletter. More than ever, now is the time for connections at a human level and across boundaries of geography, religion, gender, age, ethical background, profession, time, language, and space. Thank you for being part of this dynamic community to help build bridges across the world.
🕊️ Yale World Fellow María Corina Machado Wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
October 2025 — María Corina Machado, a 2009 Yale World Fellow, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership in advancing democracy and human rights in Venezuela. The Nobel Committee praised her as “a key, unifying figure in a political opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government.”
Machado attended Yale through the World Fellows Program (now the Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program). Yale University congratulated her on the award, celebrating her dedication to democratic governance.
You can get involved with Yale International Alliance in myriad ways. Visit our Get Involved Page to learn more. Please visit also our Donors of All Sizes Page if you want to contribute financially. If you want to learn more about our impact projects, please visit our Impact Groups.
70+ Countries (and counting)
The Yale International Alliance also brings friends, alumni, and students together around three distinct impact groups:
YIA by the Numbers
YIA Global Leadership Forum in Rome 
YIA promotes global citizenship at Yale and beyond. 
Common Room zoom discussion on favorite museums with alumni host Pamela Russell 
YIA provides programming on significant world events, the environment, education, culture and other fields of interest to the worldwide community 
YIA supports Duet-International Rescue Committee 
YIA Global Leadership Forum in Rome 
YIA brings Yale’s mission of leadership and service to the world stage 
YIA Event on campus
