Yale International Alliance

Test Event
2024-02-15 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
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Learning in the Age of Climate Change Turning Anxiety into Action
2023-07-31 19:00 - 20:00
With Anya Kamenets ’02 (Author and Advisor to the Aspen Institute and the Climate Mental Health Network) and Naina Agrawal-Hardin ’25 (Junior and Climate Justice Organizer on the Aspen Institute’s K-12 Climate Action Commission)

Moderated by Alison Gardy ’88 (Gardy Communication Strategies)

Regenerating Well-Being Through a Positive Civic Action Cycle - Maggie Favretti (Founder, DesignEd4Resilience)
2023-06-21 18:00 - 19:30
Join the alumni of the online Climate Change and Health Certificate Program for an empowering conversation with Maggie Favretti!

Maggie Favretti, a Yale-and Middlebury-educated cultural historian, has spent over 35 years happily helping her students to ask, “why not now?” As an expert in educational frameworks and collaborations (k-16+), Maggie uses co-design thinking to empower students and their communities to thrive by shifting the paradigm to youth partnership in making their world more sustainable, equitable, resilient and happy. Her current research interests include the ethics of time in leadership decision-making, anti-colonial practices in youth development, teacher and community empowerment, the roles of shared efficacy, creative confidence and civic courage in climate change adaptation/ mitigation capacity, and the impact on and role of teachers in disaster response and recovery.

Online via Zoom

Register here.

Film Society presents “Hunt for the Wilderpeople”
2022-12-17 10:00 - 11:00
Join movie enthusiasts from our global alumni community to discuss and exchange views on films from around the world. And share your favorite film from your own country to view for discussion at a future meeting.

Prior to the discussion participants will watch the movie on streaming platforms available in their regions. Online options may include Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Prime Video, etc.

Non-members register here.

Film Society presents “Minari”
2023-01-21 10:00 - 11:00

Latin American Cinema in 2022
2022-11-10 18:00 - 19:00
Join the Yale International Film Society and Yale’s Latin American and Iberian Film Festival, LIFFY, for a panel discussion with award-winning film directors to discuss current cinema in Latin America. Please visit here to learn more about LIFFY’s exceptional programming.

Luxury & Emotions 100% for YIA Mobile Emotional Clinic
2022-11-10 12:00 - 14:00 | Galleria Pananti – Auction House Palazzo Peruzzi De’ Medici Via Maggio, 28a 50125 Florence, Italy, Palazzo Peruzzi De' Medici, Florence, Firenze, 50125, Italy
LUXURY & EMOTIONS 100% – Auction at Galleria Pananti as First Fundraiser for YIA Mobile Emotional ClinicTM

Visit our page for more information on this amazing project!

#InConversationWith Professor Saleem H. Ali on his new book "Earthly Order"
2022-10-25 09:00 - 10:00
How does understanding the natural order help us make better decisions about the environment? How do the laws of nature relate to our social and political order?

Professor Saleem H. Ali discusses his new book Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life with YIA Board Chair Kyle Wang and Board Director Ruth Spencer. Please go here to inform yourself more about Professor Saleem’s book.

Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, said about Professor Ali’s book Earthly Order: “I learned something on nearly every page; so will you, as the author draws us into an affirmative view of a changing, interrelated, and wondrous world.”

Please register here: Registration Link

About the speaker:

Professor Saleem H. Ali

Saleem H. Ali was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts but grew up in Lahore, Pakistan until his college years, receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Tufts University, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in environmental policy and planning at Yale and MIT, respectively. He currently holds the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professorship in Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware(USA) and is Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia). Dr. Ali’s laurels include being a National Geographic Explorer (having travelled for research to over 150 countries); being chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serving on the seven-member science panel of the Global Environment Facility (the world’s largest multilateral trust fund for the environment held in trusteeship by the World Bank). His earlier books include Treasures of the Earth: Need Greed and a Sustainable Future which was hailed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as providing “welcome linkage between environmental behavior and poverty alleviation.”

#MakeADifference: Serving Humanity
2022-10-18 12:00 - 13:00
The YIA Refugee Service HubTM is a YIA partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Duet. Together we facilitate refugee settlement in the U.S., making the process of donating easier, more efficient, professional and transparent. By leveraging innovative technology to give exactly what refugees request, instead of cash or goods that refugees don’t need, donors directly help refugees fleeing from harm to a new home.

Do you like to know how your donation is used exactly and when and by whom?

How does our technology preserve refugees’ dignity while helping them get assistance and become members of communities in which they settle?

How does our platform play a role in building local businesses and the economy?

If you are wondering how it works and how the YIA Refugee Service HubTM is different from other donation platforms, please join us on Tuesday, October 18 at 12pm ET / 5pm GMT to find it out directly from YIA’s Chair Kyle Kegang Wang, Duet’s Co-founder Rhys Richmond, and IRC’s Executive Director Nicky Smith.

Please register here: Registration Link

About the Speakers:

Rhys Richmond

Rhys Richmond is the co-founded and currently serves as COO for GiveDuet, a philanthropic start-up designed to reimagine international asylee aid by connecting international givers, resettled refugees, and small family-run businesses on a transparent and efficient charity platform, initially launched on the island of Lesvos, Greece. After graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2021, she took a gap year to work on expanding Duet’s operations both in Greece and in the United States. She is now a first year student at Yale School of Medicine pursuing a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. Rhys is a life-long dancer and animal lover – you can often find her in a dance studio or attempting to train her two rambunctious Siamese kittens (who you may see in the background of her Zoom screen).

Nicky Smith

Nicky Smith is the Executive Director of the International Rescue Committee in Washington. IRC Washington provides opportunities for refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking, survivors of torture, and other immigrants to thrive in America. She has 30 years of progressively responsible professional experience with Non-Governmental Organizations in crisis affected countries; of which 12 years have been spent in a conflict and post conflict setting. Nicky is a member of the Civic Council of the Masters of Arts in Applied International Studies Program at the Jackson School of Business, University of Washington. She is also a member of US Global Leadership Coalition. Prior to her role as Executive Director at The IRC in Seattle, Nicky was responsible for establishing and managing new country programs for The IRC. Her areas of expertise include emergency preparedness and response, country-program management, refugee policy and advocacy, and strategy and change planning. Nicky joined The IRC in 2003. From 2007 to 2010, she was a member of The IRC’s Washington, D.C. office, working to educate policy makers and the public about the importance of providing resources for humanitarian and development assistance in Africa and Asia, and promoting programs that prevent violence against women and girls. From 2003 to 2007, she worked in some of the organization’s most sensitive situations, including managing The IRC’s single largest country program, Sudan, and serving as the IRC Country Director in Liberia during a key moment in the peace process. Before joining The IRC, Nicky worked for almost 10 years with Doctors Without Borders and Children’s Aid Direct in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan and Nepal, amongst other countries.

Kyle Kegang Wang

Kyle Kegang Wang serves as the Board Chair of Yale International Alliance (YIA), a 501c-3 nonprofit Yale Alumni Shared Interest Group under Yale Alumni Association. Kyle’s global perspective is built upon his 4+ decades of work and travels in over 40 countries and his various leadership roles in industries, nonprofits, startup ventures and strategic consulting activities. After receiving his degrees from Yale (1985) and University of Chicago (1993), Kyle worked for 35 years in corporations and tech startups including serving as CEOs in several clean tech companies and holding executive roles in fortune 500 companies. Over these decades Kyle has served on over a dozen corporate and nonprofit boards in several continents. He is passionate about making positive impact by mobilizing maximum number of global citizens to address the key challenges of our time, including the unprecedented refugee crises we face today.

Film Society presents “The Man Who Sold His Skin”
2022-10-15 10:00 - 11:00

Film Society presents “Capernaum”
2022-09-17 10:00 - 11:00

Moment of Truth: A wake-up call for gender equality in Asia
2022-05-19 04:00 - 06:00
Yale International Alliance is honored to sponsor Moment of Truth: A wake-up call for gender equality in Asia.

This webinar will provide critical data-driven strategies for dynamic and inclusive organizations that wish to enhance their focus on gender equality.

What: Moment of Truth: A wake-up call for gender equality in Asia

When: Thursday, May 19, 2022 | 8:00am ET / 8:00pm SGT

Where: online

Registration: Register Here

Speakers:

Christine Fellowes, MD, NBCUniversal Int’l Networks & DTC APAC || IMD, USA; Co-Founder, NINEby9April Hu, Founder, Swando Company; XRWorkout.io & Zigen Fund; Co-Founder, NINEby9 (BSc Yale)Trisha Craig, Vice President for Engagement Yale-NUSSanjeev Chatrath, Chief Revenue Officer, #dltledgers; Advisory Board, NINEby9Professor Deborah Davis, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Yale University

Humanitarian Benefit Concert (online) for the People of Ukraine by Yale Russian Chorus
2022-04-30 04:00 - 05:00
The Yale Clubs in Asia are putting together an online humanitarian non-political benefit concert for the people of Ukraine featuring the Yale Russian Chorus. See https://yalerussianchorus.org. The concert will last around 45-55 minutes. A member of the YRC will introduce each musical piece and its historical and cultural context.

The YRC is a tenor-bass a cappella choral ensemble specializing in sacred and secular Slavic choral music. Chorus members comprise both undergrad and grad students.

Founded in 1953, the Yale Russian Chorus has a long history of building direct people to people friendship bridging across national and political silos, distrust, ignorance and barriers such as the Iron Curtain, Cold Wars and Hot Wars.

The YRC repertoire spans over a thousand years of history and multiple continents: Russian Folk Songs (Kalinka, The Legend of the Twelve Brigands), Cossack marches (Oi, Na Hory, Vyotsa), Slovak lullabies (Hej, Pada Pada), Macedonian Wedding Songs (Ne Sedi, Djemo), Liturgical music (Blazhen Muzh, Bogoroditse Devo), and the occasional American Spiritual (Ride the Chariot, Steal Away).

The chorus has interacted with Ukrainian music cultures and will feature a number of Ukrainian songs in the program, using Music and Culture to transcend national conflicts and captivate audiences to renew and empower our common humanity, tolerance and love that embodies Lux et Veritas, Light and Truth in all of us.

Date: Saturday April 30, 2022 at 8am New Haven/ETRegister at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XRt0p2V8QxaPvBjMValUTQ

Donations are NOT required and everyone is welcome. If you are interested in donating, the attached article lists some organizations that you can donate directly to:https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/ways-to-help-ukraine-conflict/
