Common rooms are an initiative for Yale alumni who are interested in the world and its citizens.

Host sign-ups have closed for the Spring 2025 cycle. If you’d like to participate in a Spring 2025 Common Room, please sign up here by February 18. Please email [email protected] with any questions.

Your small group of 6-8 Yalies will reflect different geographic areas of the world, and will meet online for 40 minutes twice a month to create new relationships with far-flung Yalies, discuss perspectives, further cross-cultural understanding, and continue that conversation you were having in your Common Room at Yale.

Common Rooms run on a cohort 12-week biweekly cycle.

Common Rooms are a YIA program for Yale alumni.Please log in or register a YIA account. Once your account is approved as an alumni member, you will be able to volunteer to host a Common Room.