Dwight Hall 2023 Year in Review

2023 

YEAR IN REVIEW

MISSION 

Dwight Hall at Yale nurtures 

and inspires students as 

leaders of social change 

and advances justice and 

service in New Haven and 

around the world. 

LETTER FROM THE BOARD CHAIR AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 

Dear Friend, 

At a time when the world suffers from natural disasters, armed conflict in multiple locations, social 

disintegration, and environmental devastation, Dwight Hall remains a place that brings together people 

who are inspired by visions of a better future and are working to bring it into reality. 

The Hall continues to adapt to the needs and interests of Yale students and communities in New Haven 

and beyond, while retaining its student-led mission, vision, and values. In the 2022-2023 academic year, 

• Dwight Hall advanced student service and leadership through 74 student-led member groups and 

saw student interest in in-person service opportunities continue to grow; 

• The Summer Fellows program provided pre-professional opportunities for 20 students serving 

organizations and agencies in the New Haven and nationwide communities, including a cohort of 

“Dwight Hall in DC” Fellows; 

• The Yale Prison Education Initiative held its inaugural commencement ceremony, awarding 

associate degrees to incarcerated students at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, 

and celebrated one year of offering programming to women at Danbury Federal Correctional 

Institution; 

Founded by undergraduates in 1886, Dwight Hall at Yale is an independent, nonsectarian 

umbrella organization—the largest campus-based, student-led public service entity in the 

country. 

ENGAGE 

Forging trusted partnerships with New Haven neighborhoods, organizations, and agencies 

through community-engaged service. 

In 2023, Dwight Hall’s FOCUS on New Haven Camp Yale orientation program introduced 284 students to 

community organizations in New Haven via multi-day service projects and engagement with neighborhood 

landmarks and community leaders. The 2023 Student Executive Committee hosted the first Dwight Hall Day 

of Service since 2019. 

GROW 

Developing students’ intellectual, moral, civic, and creative capacities to the fullest with 

experiential learning, internships, fellowships, mentorships, and trainings. 

Dwight Hall expanded fellowship offerings to 165 term-time and summer fellows, and hosted receptions 

connecting students with alumni working in social impact careers in New Haven, Washington, DC, 

San Francisco, Boston, and New York City. 

• The Muslim Leadership Lab hosted its annual Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X lecture with 

activist and former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, featuring a presentation on faith, sports, and 

the necessity of protest; 

• The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II was honored as the 2023 Jane & William E. Curran ’49 

Distinguished Mentor and gave a rousing public address on the importance of youth-led 

movements for social justice; 

• The Alumni Mentorship & Career Development Task Force hosted alumni panels and networking 

events in partnership with the Yale Office of Career Strategy to illuminate pathways to public 

service careers. 

As you discover the diverse programs in this report and reflect upon your own community service 

and social justice efforts, you are invited to email peter.crumlish@yale.edu or visit the Hall. Alumni 

and friends are encouraged to play an active role in expanding equity-centered community service 

opportunities, growing term-time and summer fellowship offerings, and exposing more Yalies to 

clearer pathways to public sector careers. 

Dwight Hall believes a better and more just future lies in the hands of people across generations and 

life experiences working to create solutions that allow humanity and our planet to thrive. We present 

this vision and opportunities for demonstrable action to offer hope in difficult times. 

Yours in Service, 

ADVANCE 

Supporting intergenerational community-building collaborative projects and 

incubating innovative solutions that bring about lasting change in New Haven and around the world. 

Full Citizens Coalition, a Dwight Hall Emerging Project, advocated for the rights of currently and formerly 

incarcerated individuals and pushed the state of Connecticut to reexamine a decade and a half of policing and 

prosecuting that resulted in an exorbitant amount of wrongful convictions. The Hall also supported studentled 

humanitarian fundraisers for disaster relief in Morocco, Hawaii, and Afghanistan. 

Bradford Williams ’10 

Board Chair 

Peter Crumlish ’09 m.a.r. 

Executive Director & General Secretary 

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2022-2023 

ACADEMIC YEAR BY THE NUMBERS 

STUDENT-LED MEMBER GROUPS 

VOLUNTEERS 

STUDENT 

LEADERS 

RETURNED TO NEW HAVEN RESIDENTS 

via Support From Volunteer Income 

Tax Assistance (VITA) 

VOLUNTEER 

HOURS 

(Equivalent to 

nearly 7 years!) 

RAISED BY STUDENT GROUPS 

& COMMUNITY MEMBERS 

for Capacity Building in 

New Haven and Beyond* 

COMMUNITY 

PARTNERS 

Alzheimer’s Buddies 

American Red Cross at Yale 

Amnesty International Club 

Asian American Students Alliance 

Black Solidarity Conference 

Black Student Alliance at Yale 

Bridges ESL 

Camp Kesem 

Campus Girl Scouts 

Cedarhurst School Yale Group 

CityStep 

Code Haven 

Community Health Educators 

DEMOS 

Elmseed Enterprise Fund 

Engineers Without Borders Yale 

University Student Chapter 

Environmental Education 

Collaborative 

FIRST at Yale 

First Strokes Ltd. 

Funbotics 

Girls on the Run 

Hear Your Song 

Hypertension Awareness & 

Prevention Project at Yale 

Link New Haven 

MathCOUNTS 

Matriculate 

MEChA de Yale 

Migration Alliance at Yale 

New Haven REACH 

New Haven Urban Debate League 

PALS 

Partners in Health Engage 

Peristalsis Dance Group 

Project Access at Yale - 

A Student Organization 

Public Health Coalition 

RISE: Refugee and Immigrant 

Student Education 

Rotaract Club 

SheCode 

Special Needs Undergraduate 

Swim Lessons 

STEM & Health Equity Advocates 

at Yale 

Students Against Hindutva 

Ideology 

Students for Sensible Drug Policy 

Synapse 

The Cinemat 

The New Haven PAWS Project 

(Poverty Alleviation through 

Washing Soles) 

The Nourish Project 

The Urban Philanthropic Fund 

The Yale Undergraduate 

Ethics Bowl 

Ulysses S. Grant Foundation 

Urban Improvement Corps 

Walden Peer Counseling 

Y2Y New Haven 

Yale Association for Small Claims 

Assistance 

Yale Black Muslim Student 

Association 

Yale Children’s Theater 

Yale College Chess Club 

Yale Dhvani 

Yale Education Tutoring Initiative 

Yale Effective Altruism 

Yale EMS 

Yale Hunger and Homelessness 

Action Project 

Yale Interpretation Network 

Yale MedSci 

Yale Muslim Students 

Association 

Yale Student Mental Health 

Association 

Yale Undergraduate Association 

for African Peace and 

Development 

Yale Undergraduate Legal Aid 

Association 

Yale Undergraduate Prison 

Project 

Yale Undergraduate Science 

Olympiad 

Yale Undergraduates at 

Connecticut Hospice 

Yale Votes 

Yale’s Black Men’s Union 

YaleBleeds 

YEP! 

MEMBER GROUP SPOTLIGHT 

COMMUNITY MEMBERS 

AND STUDENTS REACHED 

via Events, Workshops, and Trainings 

Y2Y New Haven is a partnership between Youth 

Continuum, Y2Y Network, and students throughout 

New Haven that serves young adults experiencing 

homelessness in our surrounding community. Based 

on the youth-to-youth model first employed by Y2Y 

Harvard Square, students volunteer at a crisis 

housing center run by Youth Continuum. Volunteers 

provide encouragement and support for residents 

by assisting with chores, resume editing, and job or 

apartment searches, as well as simply serving as a 

listening ear and facilitating fun activities. 

*Dwight Hall also supported the fundraising efforts of Doctors United for Ukraine and Yale Medical 

School’s Hunger and Homelessness Auction, as well as the work of other fiscally-sponsored groups. 



DWIGHT HALL PROGRAMS AND FELLOWSHIPS 

FOCUS on New Haven 

Alumni Mentorship and Career Development 

Community Mental Health Fellows 

Community Engagement Resource Development 

and Trainings 

Co-Op After School 

Crisis Response Network 

The Jane & William E. Curran ’49 Distinguished 

Mentor Program 

Dwight Hall Community Commons 

Dwight Hall Community Response Fellows 

Dwight Hall Institutional (Days of) Service 

Dwight Hall Member Group Advisement 

Dwight Hall Member Group Fellows 

Dwight Hall Public Library Fellows 

Dwight Hall Public School Interns 

Dwight Hall Service Series 

Dwight Hall Socially Responsible Investment Fund 

Dwight Hall Summer Fellows 

Dwight Hall Urban Fellows 

Dwight Hall Student Executive Committee and 

Cabinet 

Emerging Project Sponsorship 

First-Years in Support of New Haven 

FOCUS on New Haven 

Graduate and Professional Service Support 

Harbor Fellows: A Dwight Hall Program at Yale 

Jones-Zimmermann Academic Mentoring Program 

The Rev. John G. Magee ’06 Fellowship Program 

Muslim Leadership Lab 

New Haven Civic Allyship Initiative 

Workshops and Skills Trainings 

Yale Prison Education Initiative 

YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellows 


FOCUS on New Haven 2023 successfully connected hundreds 

of first-years, sophomores, transfer students, Eli Whitney 

students, and Yale student leaders in service with the New 

Haven community. Now a Camp Yale orientation program, 

FOCUS was established in 1991, operates through Dwight 

Hall, and is largely student-run. It combines hands-on service 

projects with opportunities for students to hear from New 

Haven community partners, spend time exploring the city, and 

think critically about the complex relationship between Yale and 

New Haven. 

FOCUS on New Haven 2023 featured 59 student leaders 

welcoming 284 incoming students and working at 30 

different sites with community partners like Downtown 

Evening Soup Kitchen and Bregamos Community Theater. 

Additionally, students embarked on an “Exploration Day,” 

visiting organizations beyond their primary service project and 

increasing students’ exposure to the New Haven community. 

URBAN FELLOWS STUDENT SPOTLIGHT 

Founded in 1996, Dwight Hall Urban Fellows is 

an academic-year program whereby Yale 

undergraduates work on complex urban 

challenges through community-led solutions, 

neighborhood empowerment, and economic 

development with partners including Data 

Haven, EMERGE-CT, Love 146, Leadership, 

Education & Athletics in Partnership, and Project 

Fresh Start. 

Eliana Cortez ’25, a Dwight Hall Urban Fellow 

since 2022, leads the Youth Council at Dixwell 

Community House (the Q House), facilitating a 

space for young New Haveners to use their voice 

and design educational or recreational services 

and opportunities for fellow students at the Q 

House. Throughout 2023, Eliana and the Youth 

Council’s Youth Directors, supported by 

community leaders at the Q House, Higher 

Heights Youth Empowerment Programs, Inc., and 

New Haven’s Board of Education, worked to 

organize a first-annual school-day college and job 

fair at the Q House that welcomed 500+ students 

from public schools in the New Haven area. They 

followed up this event with an affording college 

workshop, designed and presented in 

collaboration with the Connecticut Department 

of Banking and the Connecticut 

Higher Education Supplemental 

Loan Authority. 

Whereas other youth councils 

often put young people in 

perfunctory or largely symbolic 

roles, Eliana is committed to 

empowering the voices of the 

members of the council. 

“I’m only a few years older than them at the end 

of the day. And I thought that experience with 

community involvement would be really valuable 

for them.” 

In 2024, Eliana is excited to help the incoming 

Youth Directors plan projects connected to their 

passions and collective vision for the New Haven 

youth community. She is also excited to continue 

inviting New Haven community leaders to speak 

with council members about the issues they 

tackle and the lessons they have learned in 

leadership. 

Co-Op After School (CAS) is a partnership between Dwight Hall and Cooperative 

Arts and Humanities High School in downtown New Haven. In its fifteenth year, 

CAS offers free and accessible after-school programming to all Co-Op students, 

engaging 350 students–more than half of Co-Op’s student body. Paul Bryant 

Hudson serves as Program Director of CAS and Stephen King serves as Outreach 

and Engagement Coordinator. 

In the past year, CAS has expanded its Genders-Sexualities Alliance and 

grown the LGBTQ+ Resource Center. A highlight of students’ work was the 

“Exqueerience,’’ an event featuring live music, food painting projects, and 

karaoke that was planned and run by students. 

After school programming continues to incorporate student feedback and 

program design to ensure cultural relevance. In its second year, CAS’s podcasting 

program partnered with Teen Takeover, a program of Yale’s undergraduate-run 

WYBCx radio station. CAS students were given opportunities to apply the skills 

they learned in the previous year and were supported by Carmen Lopez Villamil 

’25, Sophia Kanga ’25, and Dwight Hall Community Response Fellow and 

Public School Intern Aden Gonzales ’26. Exciting traditions, such as a Broadway 

theater trip, also resumed for the first time in four years, with 60 CAS students 

and family members visiting New York City to experience MJ: The Musical. 

Support from the Connecticut State Department of Education After-School 

Grant Program, the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School 

Emergency Relief Fund, and the Carolyn Foundation is essential to these 

programmatic achievements. 

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Dwight Hall Students Receive Prestigious 

Postgraduate Scholarships and Yale College Prizes 

Every year, student winners of prestigious international scholarships and Yale College awards exemplify Dwight Hall’s 

mission of advancing justice and service in New Haven and beyond. Many had formative undergraduate experiences 

engaging with Dwight Hall institutional programs and member groups that inspired their postgraduate studies and 

lifelong commitment to public service. Dwight Hall plays an essential role in developing Yale students’ civic, personal, 

and professional interests as illustrated by these stories of young alumni. 

THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIP 

The Rhodes Scholarship offers fully-funded post– 

graduate awards which enable talented young 

people from around the world to study at the 

University of Oxford. 

More than half of Yale undergraduates who received 

Rhodes Scholarships in the last five years held 

affiliations with Dwight Hall programs or led Dwight 

Hall member groups. 

Christina Pao ’20 was awarded a 

Truman Scholarship in 2019 and a 

Rhodes Scholarship in 2020. At 

Dwight Hall, Christina served as 

a Summer Fellow with the 

International Rescue Committee 

and as a Dwight Hall Urban Fellow 

with IRIS and a New Haven alder. 

Christina coordinated Dwight Hall Urban Fellows 

for their final two years at Yale. Today, Christina is 

a PhD student at Princeton University in Sociology 

and Social Policy studying population changes in 

social identities. 

THE MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP 

The Marshall Scholarship is a postgraduate 

scholarship for “intellectually distinguished young 

Americans [and] their country’s future leaders” to 

study at any university in the United Kingdom. 

Over half of Yale’s Marshall Scholarship recipients in 

the past five years held strong Dwight Hall affiliations 

with Dwight Hall member groups or programs. 

Michael Chen ’23 was awarded a 

Marshall Scholarship in 2023. At 

Dwight Hall, Michael served as 

a Membership Coordinator on 

the 2022 Student Executive 

Committee, an Urban Fellow at 

the New Haven Legal Aid 

Association, and as a YANA- 

Dwight Hall Summer Fellow at the 

Legal Aid Society in New York City. Michael is now 

pursuing an MSc in Migration Studies at the 

University of Oxford. 

THE JAMES ANDREW HAAS PRIZE 

The James Andrew Haas Prize is a Yale College 

prize awarded to the senior whose breadth of 

intellectual achievement, strength of character, 

and fundamental humanity provided leadership 

for his or her fellow students. 

From 2018 to 2023, five out of the six Haas prize 

winners were leaders of Dwight Hall member groups 

or engaged with Dwight Hall institutional programs. 

Patrick Sullivan ’18 was awarded 

the James Andrew Haas Prize in 

2018. At Dwight Hall, Patrick 

served as the Head of the Yale 

Undergraduate Prison Project, a 

Dwight Hall member group, and 

co-founded the Connecticut Bail 

Fund as a Dwight Hall Urban 

Fellow. Today, Patrick works as the 

Director of Operations and Finance at 

the Freedom Community Center, a St. Louis-based 

nonprofit dedicated to creating transformative 

justice solutions to violence. 

THE NAKANISHI PRIZE 

The Nakanishi Prize is a Yale College prize 

awarded to seniors who, while maintaining high 

academic achievement, have provided exemplary 

leadership in enhancing race and/or ethnic 

relations at Yale College. 

Over the past five years, half of the Nakanishi Prize 

winners have held strong Dwight Hall affiliations. 

Kenia Hale ’21 was awarded the 

Nakanishi Prize in 2021. At Dwight 

Hall, Kenia served as President of 

the Yale Urban Improvement 

Corps, a Dwight Hall member 

group and community initiative 

through the Yale Afro-American 

Cultural Center. Today, Kenia works 

as an Administrative Coordinator at 

the Columbia University INCITE center 

where she works on a number of initiatives including 

the Assembling Voices fellowship. Kenia is also an 

Assistant Teacher at the New York School for 

Poetic Computation. 

Alumni Mentorship & Career Development Task Force 

Dwight Hall’s Alumni Mentorship & Career 

Development Task Force (AM&CD) strives to make 

the Hall a hub of information, mentorship, and 

networking for current students and alumni interested 

in public service, social justice, and related careers, with 

the ultimate goal of exposing students to pathways 

to social sector careers. Originally conceptualized by 

Dwight Hall Board Member Tim Tompkins ’86, the 

task force began hosting events in fall 2021 under the 

student leadership of Hannah Kiburz ’22. 

In spring 2023, the task force, led by Alvaro Perpuly 

’23, 2022-23 Task Force Chair; Caitlin Monsky 

’24, Alumni Engagement Coordinator on the 2023 

Dwight Hall Student Executive Committee; and 

Barbara Mola ’22, Dwight Hall Communications and 

Alumni Engagement Associate, hosted a “Summer 

Public Service Fellowships Information Session” 

which featured representatives of Dwight Hall, Yale’s 

Office of Career Strategy (OCS), and the Center 

for International and Professional Experience, and 

a “Public Service & Nonprofit Networking Event” 

that brought together alumni and community 

partners with undergraduates seeking internships and 

postgraduate opportunities in the social sector. 

During summer 2023, Dwight Hall convened two 

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT 

Caitlin Monsky ’24 is a senior in 

Davenport College who is majoring in 

Political Science. She was previously 

an Outreach Ambassador and Alumni 

Engagement Coordinator on Dwight 

Hall’s Student Executive Committee. 

Outside of Dwight Hall, Caitlin is Vice 

President of Yale Model Congress 

and a member of the women’s club 

lacrosse team. 

in-person meet-and-greets among Summer Fellows 

and alumni in Washington, DC and San Francisco, 

connecting local alumni and the cohorts of Fellows in 

those cities. The Hall hosted additional gatherings in 

Boston and New York City in fall 2023, welcoming 

alumni ranging from the Class of 1964 to the Class of 

2023. 

In fall 2023, the task force, chaired by Caitlin Monsky 

’24, partnered with Robyn Acampora, Director of 

Strategic Initiatives at OCS, to offer students a Fall 

Series on Common Good Careers. The goal of the 

events was to help students hone professional skills 

useful in finding mentors, internships, and careers in 

the social impact sector. In total, the series welcomed 

265 attendees across seven events and helped 

promote two additional events convened by the Yale 

Alumni Nonprofit Alliance. 

The task force rounded out the fall 2023 semester 

with two complementary events: a panel with 2023 

Maurice R. Greenberg Yale World Fellows Janah 

Ncube, Binbin Wang, and Naasu Genevieve Fofanah 

on lessons they learned in public service, and a panel 

featuring Caterina Passoni ’18, Ahmad Saleh ’22 

M.P.H., and Sophie Cappello ’20, all young alumni 

working in social impact careers. 

“I feel incredibly grateful for the opportunity 

to lead the AM&CD Task Force, where I’ve 

honed professional skills in public service, 

built wonderful relationships, and felt the 

satisfaction of helping students connect with 

supportive alumni and other resources.” 

—Caitlin Monsky ’24, Dwight Hall 2023-24 

Alumni Mentorship & Career Development Task Force Chair 


Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II delivers an 

address at Dwight Memorial Chapel. 

Photos by Dare Kumolu-Johnson 

Jane and William E. Curran ’49 

Distinguished Mentor Program 

“I cannot emphasize how 

fitting it is to learn about 

building a movement from 

someone like Reverend 

Barber, who has gone 

and done exactly all that 

throughout his life. The 

things that he preaches are 

at the very core of what 

Dwight Hall stands for.” 

—Emily Zhang ’25 (below, right) 

Junior Co-Coordinator on 2023 

Dwight Hall Student Executive 

(ExComm) and Senior Co- 

Coordinator on 2024 ExComm 

Yale Prison Education Initiative 

Founded at Dwight Hall in 2016, the Yale Prison 

Education Initiative (YPEI) brings a liberal arts 

education to students in prison, delivering college classes 

and programming offered by Yale faculty that replicate 

the rigor, outcomes, and expectations of courses taught at 

the University. 

YPEI offered its first credit-bearing Yale courses and 

programming to incarcerated students in Connecticut in 

2018. In 2021, a transformative grant from the Mellon 

Foundation and a partnership with the University of New 

Haven (UNH) allowed the program to expand to begin 

offering UNH courses and college degrees to students in 

prison. YPEI also launched programming for incarcerated 

women at the Danbury federal prison in October 2022. 

Dwight Hall honored the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II as the 

2023 Dwight Hall Jane and William E. Curran ’49 Distinguished 

Mentor. The Distinguished Mentor program, established by William 

Curran ’49 in memory of his wife Jane, recognizes leaders who have 

made remarkable contributions in public service and invites them to 

serve as mentors to Yale University students by sharing their expertise, 

experience, and insights. 

Bishop Barber is a social justice activist, pastor, and professor of the 

practice at Yale, serving as the Founding Director of the Center for 

Public Theology & Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, President of 

Repairers of the Breach, and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: 

A National Call for Moral Revival. 

As part of his mentorship, Bishop Barber delivered an address to 120 

members of the Dwight Hall and Yale community on April 4, 2023. 

The day marked the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. 

Martin Luther King, Jr. In his speech, Bishop Barber contextualized our 

current moment within a long legacy of change-makers. From Frederick 

Douglass to Fannie Lou Hamer, he explained how the movements of 

today descend from the movements of before, and how, even after his 

speech, the works of those men and women will not be complete. 

He also emphasized that his work was not partisan, yet instead united 

around common values of love and kindness. Though there have 

been efforts to sow division in our society, Bishop Barber argued that 

we must find “the moral ground that exists beneath our ideological 

differences.” 

Peter Crumlish ’09 M.A.R., Executive Director of Dwight Hall, 

reflected on Bishop Barber’s speech afterwards, stating, “the Reverend 

Barber’s call to action was inspiring…He beautifully filled the role of 

the Jane & William E. Curran ’49 Distinguished Mentor, encouraging 

the students present to commit themselves to using their allotted time 

on this planet to make the world a better place.” 

A poster spread the word 

about Bishop Barber’s address. 

June 9, 2023 marked the momentous celebration of 

YPEI’s first-ever commencement, which took place at 

MacDougall-Walker prison. The site graduated seven 

students—six of whom were still incarcerated—with 

associate degrees from the University of New Haven. 

Hosting the ceremony in a visiting room at the prison, 

YPEI staff took great care in incorporating as many 

elements of a conventional commencement as possible. The 

ceremony included awards for outstanding achievement, 

speeches from each of the graduates, and a commencement 

address from Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, who 

called it the most moving graduation ceremony he ever 

attended. In the 2024 ceremony, YPEI anticipates 13 

students will graduate during the MacDougall ceremony, 

including its first two Bachelor’s degree recipients. 

This year also saw YPEI’s Danbury site celebrate its oneyear 

anniversary as the only college program offered to 

any women in any federal prison in the United States. 

Robust programming included art classes offered through 

YPEI’s partnership with the Yale School of Art’s Art and 

Social Justice Initiative, in addition to courses in English, 

philosophy, math, and psychology. In spring 2024, YPEI 

will see its first degree graduates at the Danbury prison. 

The work of YPEI is made possible through the 

commitment of staff members Zelda Roland ’08, ’16 

Ph.D., Founding Director; Vanessa Estimé, Assistant 

Director; Tracy Westmoreland, Site Director at Danbury 

and Transfer Coordinator; Emme Magliato ’23, Program 

Assistant, and hundreds of undergraduate and graduate 

student Fellows and volunteers. 

Marcus Harvin (middle) and his fellow YPEI 

graduates meet Governor Ned Lamont. 

Photo by Karen Pearson 

YPEI 2023 GRADUATE AND 

COLLEGE-TO-CAREER FELLOW 

SPOTLIGHT: MARCUS HARVIN 

MARCUS HARVIN was released from prison in 

2022 but obtained special permission to return 

to MacDougall-Walker to participate in the 

ceremony with his former classmates after 

completing his coursework on campus at UNH. 

He is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree at 

UNH and serves as a YPEI College-to-Career 

Fellow, where he receives professional 

development and mentorship opportunities at 

Yale and UNH. Marcus also served as a UNH 

President’s Public Service Fellow in 2023 and 

recently founded Newhallville fREshSTARTs, a 

food pantry to provide healthy produce and 

holistic programming for neighbors in need. In 

the future, Marcus hopes to become a defense 

attorney. 

“[YPEI] literally is the light at the end of the 

tunnel that gives the day illumination. When 

you get to those classes, you don’t feel like you’re 

in prison. You actually go from being in a cell to 

being kind of, sort of on a campus. You literally 

feel like you’re not in the same place anymore.” 


COMMUNITY PARTNER 

SPOTLIGHT: DR. IVETTE RUIZ 

“We had our first 

FOCUS on New 

Haven students 

last year, and it 

was an amazing 

experience. The 

students work so 

hard. . . had it not 

been for them, I 

would not be where I’m 

at today—we would still be behind like a 

year and a half. Those students, for 

three days, worked very hard in the heat 

of the summer. From then on, it sort of 

snowballed. . . I organized the 1st 

Northeast Disability and Agricultural 

Conference in February 2023. . . and 

Johnny was able to support us by 

inviting a handful of students to come 

rotate and help out with registration 

and parking, which was a great 

experience. 

Each time we needed guidance, support, 

or extra hands at the farm, Johnny went 

above and beyond. He even came to our 

rescue this summer when we had 

hundreds of pounds of cucumbers to 

donate before they went bad. He found 

a group in need to donate them to on 

our behalf, picked them up promptly 

from the farm and personally delivered 

them, sent pictures of the happy 

recipients we had blessed, and also 

completed all of the donations 

paperwork. He is truly the embodiment 

of a partner and supporter who believes 

in both me and our mission. We are 

extremely blessed and appreciative to 

have him and Dwight Hall in our corner.” 

Healing by Growing Farms 

Dr. Ivette Ruiz has turned personal pain and struggle into healing 

for herself and her community, advancing her mission through a 

multifaceted partnership with Dwight Hall. 

A bilingual and bicultural third-generation new farmer, firstgeneration 

doctoral graduate, and a lifelong humanitarian, Ivette 

suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2020 that altered her life 

forever. In the difficult period that followed, she found peace in 

farming and sharing crops with individuals experiencing food 

insecurity, eventually founding Healing by Growing Farms 

(HBG), a Green Therapy Based Retreat & Educational Center 

located in East Haven. The organization is guided by the mission 

“Sanando (Healing) Our Brain, Our Spirit and Our Soil,” where 

trauma survivors learn about gardening, healing themselves, the 

environment, and building community. 

Soon after its founding, HBG was awarded the 2022 New 

Haven Civic Innovation Prize, which is managed by Dwight Hall 

and provides up to $10,000 annually to the best student- or 

community-led venture or project focused on benefiting the City of 

New Haven. It was during this process that Ivette first met Johnny 

Scafidi ’01, Dwight Hall’s Director of Community Outreach and 

Engagement, who has worked closely with Ivette ever since. 

As stewards of the Civic Innovation Prize, the Hall assisted Ivette 

in securing a greenhouse, planters, and other materials. HBG was 

also incorporated as a Dwight Hall Emerging Project in 2022. 

Managed by Johnny, the Emerging Projects program provides more 

formal support to community initiatives through organizational 

management, consultations and mentoring, material resources like 

workspaces and office supplies, and financial support. 

The Hall has also supported HBG by engaging student volunteers 

with the organization’s work through its FOCUS on New Haven 

Camp Yale orientation program, which has included HBG as a 

service project site for the past two years. The Hall looks forward to 

continuing to grow this partnership, advancing service and justice 

in New Haven and beyond through innovative collaboration. 

Muslim Leadership Lab 

The Muslim Leadership Lab (MLL) at Dwight Hall was founded by 

Abdul-Rehman Malik in 2018 to grow civic leadership skills among 

Muslim students at Yale and to catalyze new directions for Muslim life 

on college campuses nationwide. 

MLL held its fifth annual Dr. Betty Shabazz & Malcolm X El Hajj Malik El 

Shabazz Lecture on March 6, 2023, featuring Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, an 

activist and former professional basketball player often called “Kaepernick 

before Kaepernick” for his decision to not stand for the U.S. national 

anthem during the 1995-96 NBA season in protest of American racism and 

imperialism. The event brought together the New Haven 

and Yale communities, particularly community organizers 

and social justice advocates, and was co-sponsored by Yale 

Divinity School’s Diversity Office. 

MLL also welcomed Dr. Noor Zaidi as the 2023 Imam 

Hussein Lecturer on Social Justice, who gave a lecture titled 

“Translations of Zaynab: Negotiating Space, Memory, and 

Justice,” in April 2023. Fall 2023 events were similarly 

robust, with MLL hosting a fall retreat for its student 

cohort and welcoming Rusha Latif for a lecture on her book 

Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution. 

MLL continues to support students through a twicemonthly 

Reading Circle which introduces students to key 

texts in West African Muslim spirituality, and uses the 

gathering to encourage robust discussion on the ethics of 

social justice and community organizing. 

New Haven Civic Allyship Initiative 

and Full Citizens Coalition 

“We’ve specifically wanted 

to hear from thinkers, 

artists, activists, organizers, 

academics, writers, and doers 

who are coming from the 

Black Muslim experience… 

and from the BIPOC Muslim 

experience more broadly. 

Our Dr. Betty Shabazz & 

Malcolm X lectures every 

year have represented, in 

some ways, the cutting edge 

of thinking and research 

around the African American 

Muslim experience and its 

connection to social justice.” 

—Abdul-Rehman Malik 

Founder and Program Director 

of the Muslim Leadership Lab 

The New Haven Civic Allyship Initiative elevates the work of community organizers in New Haven and beyond, 

convening criminal justice advocates, grassroots activists, currently and formerly incarcerated people, students, 

and professors in equitable relationships. Similarly, Full Citizens Coalition (FCC) is a Connecticut-based action 

group focused on undoing the unjust harms caused by felony disenfranchisement and ensuring that every citizen 

is respected as a full citizen. James Jeter serves as the Founding Director of Civic Allyship and the Director of FCC. 

In spring 2023, Civic Allyship hosted Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS) for a perspectiveshifting 

workshop featuring Debra Riding, IRIS Education Director, and Hossna Samadi, IRIS Cultural 

Ambassador. The event underscored the unique challenges that refugees face and opportunities for amplifying 

their voices through trauma-informed allyship. The workshop was later repeated to 200 students during 

Dwight Hall’s Camp Yale orientation program, FOCUS on New Haven. 

The Children of the Storm project harnessed the advocacy of FCC and research 

from the Yale Investigative Reporting Lab to document eight wrongful 

conviction cases stemming from law-enforcement corruption in New Haven 

over four decades, culminating in the publishing of the Holding Me Captive 

website, yirl.org/holding-me-captive. A “Truth Tour” throughout summer 

2023 raised public awareness by highlighting many examples of egregious 

misconduct by police, prosecutors, and trial counsel in several cases. 

Finally, in fall 2023, Civic Allyship hosted “Through the Eyes of the 

Innocent,” a virtual event in celebration of National Exoneration Day. 


The Long Legacy of 

Dwight Hall Summer Fellows 

Dwight Hall Summer Fellows is a leadership development program through which Yale undergraduates 

advance community-based public service and social justice work in New Haven and beyond. 

The program was founded in 1968 by Dr. 

David L. Warren ’70 M.Div., ’70 M.U.S. 

in response to the twin assassinations of 

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and 

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that year. Having spent 

years learning how to address issues using nonviolence 

and community organizing, David 

developed Summer Fellows while serving as a 

Dwight Hall intern. (He would go on to lead 

Dwight Hall as General Secretary from 1969 to 

1976.) Selected students would receive a sum 

of $500 each in exchange for going out into 

the community and asking how their skills and 

resources could be best utilized by community 

members. Student proposals had to make clear 

that whatever initiative they established was 

directly responding to community needs and 

would be continued into the fall. 

Undergraduates and graduate students from 

the Yale Law School, Divinity School, School of 

Architecture, and School of Drama comprised 

the initial cohort of Fellows. Their proposals 

combined their areas of expertise with the 

specific needs of New Haven community 

members. Some of the projects that grew 

from this cohort included the Free School 

at Yale, a free university offering courses on 

subjects like race in America and the war in 

Vietnam that were open to and taught by New 

Haven community members, Yale faculty, and 

students; a street theatre where local students 

wrote their own drama and performed it; 

and legal counseling for tenants experiencing 

landlord conflicts and individuals seeking to 

gain citizenship. 

Summer Fellows alumni now comprise more 

than 500 professionals and social change leaders, 

many of whom highlight this experience as their 

most meaningful one at Yale. 

Summer Fellows Alumni Through the Years 

John Wilhelm ’67 

Urban civil disorder swept 

the U.S. in the 1960s. New 

Haven suffered major 

disturbances in August 

1967. Then in December 

1967, banner headlines 

announced the arrest of 

New Haven activists in a 

bomb plot. On April 4, 

1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin 

Luther King, Jr. was 

assassinated. Disorders 

again swept New Haven and the country. Meanwhile the 

U.S. escalated the Vietnam War. Yale Chaplain William 

Sloan Coffin became a national leader of the anti-Vietnam 

war movement. 

This extraordinary time led many Americans, especially 

young people, to question all our assumptions. I had 

graduated from Yale College in 1967 and stayed in New 

Haven to work on a community organizing project. I was 

fortunate that David Warren, the thoughtful and 

passionate leader of Dwight Hall, invited me to join the 

inaugural Dwight Hall Summer Fellows program in summer 

1968. The Fellows David brought together had very 

different experiences and outlooks. We shared a hope that 

in some small way each of us could help bring greater 

justice to New Haven and our country. I believe the Summer 

Fellows shared my gratitude for the opportunity to struggle 

with the angst of those profound events in a caring group. 

We were thankful that David Warren was our leader that 

summer, because of his unique ability to synthesize political 

and moral viewpoints and town and gown attitudes. 

Another less noticed event occurred in New Haven: Yale’s 

dining hall, custodial, and maintenance workers went on 

strike in April 1968, seeking to improve their very low 

wages and benefits. They returned to work without 

achieving their objectives. Largely black and Italian- 

American, many of them women, they were Yale’s least 

prestigious employees. 

The following year I joined the Yale union as its members 

strengthened their unity to challenge their wealthy and 

powerful employer. I had become convinced that unions 

are necessary to challenge our nation’s economic and racial 

divisions. Yale workers struck again in April 1971. This time 

they were unified in a quest for greater worker rights that 

The 2023 Summer Fellows contributed 6,600 hours of service work with agencies and NGOs in 

New Haven and across the country. Dwight Hall also hosted in-person receptions in Washington, DC 

and San Francisco in July 2023, connecting 16 Fellows and undergraduates with 26 alumni in 

those cities. The Hall plans to grow opportunities for alumni mentorship and students’ professional 

development as the Summer Fellows program continues to expand to communities nationwide. 

became an inspiring struggle for civil rights. They were 

successful, but only after a police riot on commencement 

day injured many workers and led to global headlines. 

My decision to join the Yale union came out of the Summer 

Fellows Program. That decision led to my life’s work in the 

labor movement. I am forever grateful to Dwight Hall, to 

the 1968 Summer Fellows, and to David Warren. 

Lauren Thompson Starks ’05 

Lauren Thompson Starks ’05 served as a 2003 Dwight 

Hall Summer Fellow and as a Dwight Hall student Board 

member. Given Dwight Hall’s anchor in the Yale and New 

Haven communities, Lauren was excited to be a part of 

making a difference with her peers. 

As a student, Lauren found 

Dwight Hall to be an excellent 

resource for deepening her 

involvement with CARE USA, 

an international humanitarian 

nonprofit she first began 

volunteering with in high 

school. She founded the 

College Council for CARE— 

CARE’s first college youth 

program—as a Dwight Hall 

member group. Then the 

organization partnered with 

other Dwight Hall member groups, such as the Yale 

Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, and organized 

fundraising and other efforts focused on fighting poverty 

in the developing world. 

Since then, Lauren’s public service career has spanned 

two Presidential administrations and centered on 

promoting educational equity and economic 

development for the American people. She served as the 

first-ever Woodbridge Fellow within Yale’s Offices of the 

President, the Secretary and Vice President, and the 

General Counsel. A graduate of Columbia Law School — 

with training that emphasized lawyers’ roles in shaping 

policy — Lauren served as the Chief of Staff to the Acting 

General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Education 

(ED). She also served as the senior advisor to ED’s Under 

Secretary and the White House Domestic Policy Council 

and later continued to focus on innovation in higher 

education policy at Southern New Hampshire University. 

Prior to her current role as Director of Good Companies/ 

Good Jobs, an initiative of the Aspen Institute Economic 

Opportunities Program, Lauren led the U.S. Economic 

Development Administration’s $500 million Good Jobs 

Challenge program. She loves to meet students and 

connect with them about law school, policy, and how 

they can see themselves as problem solvers and leaders 

in many ways throughout their careers. 

Kat Moon ’24 

Kat Moon ’24 is a senior majoring 

in Molecular Biophysics and 

Biochemistry and History of 

Science, Medicine, and Public 

Health. Outside of the classroom, 

she serves as an undergraduate 

researcher at Neugebauer Lab, a 

Social Services Director at 

HAVEN Free Clinic, and also a 

soprano for Yale Gospel Choir. 

Drawn to medicine as an 

intersection of science, service, 

and humanity, Kat aspires to 

become a physician who can see human lives behind 

clinical symptoms. The Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship 

was particularly instrumental in shaping her views about 

healthcare and community. As a 2023 Summer Fellow, 

Kat undertook various initiatives at HAVEN Free Clinic, 

such as strengthening community relationships with 

local NGOs, integrating interdepartmental resources, 

and launching the Food as Medicine (food voucher) 

program for patients. 

Through these projects, she learned how small systemic 

changes can significantly impact patient lives and 

experienced firsthand the power of collaboration. For 

example, Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services 

shared resources that have become integral to Social 

Services’ daily work, while 4CT assisted in running the 

financial services for the Food as Medicine initiative. This 

is not to mention the effort of countless HAVEN 

members who share the same visions. 

Kat hopes to apply the lessons learned from serving as a 

Summer Fellow to her medical career, holding a deep 

appreciation for peers, mentors, and the local community. 

Specifically, she dreams of continuing to promote 

collaboration between healthcare and the community 

wherever she goes. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

Dwight Hall values gifts from each supporter. The individuals, foundations, businesses, 

agencies, and university offices below contributed between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023. 

Denotes 1886 Society: Ten-plus consecutive years of giving 

SOCIAL JUSTICE 

CHAMPIONS 

Contributions of $10,000 and 

above; or gifts of $1,000 or more 

for students/alumni within 10 

years of graduation 

Anonymous 

Dr. Sarah W. Baron ’04 

& Mr. Jeremy S. Kahan ’04 

Mr. & Mrs. Carl M. Eifler ’70* 

Mr. David R. McKinnis ’87 

& Dr. Elizabeth R. McKinnis ’89* 

Ms. Zoe G. Mercer-Golden ’13* 

Dr. Peter R. Muehrer ’82* 

Dr. Deborah Rose ’72, ’77 M.P.H., ’89 Ph.D. 

The Sassafras Foundation, Inc.* 

Stonesthrow Fund of Fidelity 

Charitable 

Mr. Bradford R. Williams ’10* 

CHANGEMAKERS 

Gifts of $2,500-$9,999; or 

contributions of $250-$999 for 

students/alumni within 10 years 

of graduation 

Anonymous 

Mr. Mohsin Ansari P ’24 

Ms. Brenda S. Breslauer ’86, ’96 M.S.L. 

& Mr. Richard Demak 

Mr. Peter G. Crumlish ’09 M.A.R. 

& Ms. Sara Armstrong* 

The Jane and William Curran 

Foundation, Inc.* 

Clarence Doolittle Fund of The 

Community Foundation for 

Greater New Haven 

Mr. Morgan Eifler 

Mr. John A. Jones ’58, ’59 M.S.* 

Ms. Sandra Lee ’97* 

Lovett-Woodsum Foundation 

Ms. Chi T. Nguyen ’98 

Mr. Daniel J. Shen ’14 

Jane Shepard Fund of The Community 

Foundation for Greater New Haven 

Mr. Benjamin I. Staub ’06* 

The Willow Creek Charitable 

Foundation 

ADVOCATES 

Contributions of $1 - $2,499 

Mr. Donald B. Abbott ’63* 

Mr. John R. Abelson ’78 

& Ms. Kendall J. Rafter 

Mr. John R. Adler ’84 

& Ms. Sherri Levine* 

Prof. Jean-Christophe Agnew ’92 

M.A.H.* 

Dr. John M. Agosta ’76 

& Ms. Margaret M. Miller ’76 

Ms. Nancy Alexander ’79, ’84 M.B.A. 

& Mr. Phillip G. Bernstein ’79, 

’83 M.Arch.* 

Mr. Victor B. Alfandre ’88* 

Dr. John V. Allcott, III ’67 

The Reverend Elizabeth D. Allen ’78, ’87 

M.Div. 

Mr. James M. Altman ’71, ’75 J.D. 

& Dr. Ellen L. Schecter 

Mr. William An ’24 

Mr. James M. Anderson, Jr., ’91, ’95 J.D. 

& Ms. Kate B. Brownlee ’93 

Mr. Gregory E. Andrews ’71 

Ms. Bethany L. Appleby ’89 

Dr. Hugh Auchincloss Jr. ’71, ’72 M.A. 

Mr. Michael A. Avery ’66, ’70 LL.B. 

Imam Omer Bajwa 

& Ms. Lisa Kinney-Bajwa 

Mr. Harold W. Baldwin ’63* 

Mr. Kenneth C. Bardach ’65 

Ms. Susan Learner Barr ’79 

Ms. Ravi K. Batista ’96 

Prof. & Mrs. Richard Beals ’60, ’64 Ph.D.* 

Dr. Andrew F. Beck ’02 

Mr. William R. Becklean ’58* 

Ms. Frances Beinecke ’71, ’74 M.F.S. 

Dr. Allison Jatlow Beitler ’86* 

Mr. Richard D. Belin, ’71 

Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Bell ’65 

Ms. Abie Benitez, Ed.D. 

Ms. Suzanne C. Berl 

Dr. Joshua A. Berman ’87 

Mr. Howard B. Bernstein ’65 

Mr. Timothy Bertaccini ’77* 

Ms. Christina M. Berti ’85 

& Dr. Peter J. Litwin ’86 

Mr. Franklin L Best, Jr. ’67 

Ms. Barbara L. Bettigole ’78* 

Ms. Jessica M. Bialecki ’08 

Mr. Donald A. Bickford ’66 

Prof. Murray Biggs 

Mr. Brian W. Bills ’11 

Mrs. Pamela Bisbee-Simonds 

& Dr. Bruce D. Simonds 

Mr. Jason M. Blau ’08 

& Ms. Diana Mosca Blau ’08 

Dr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Bonner, Jr. ’72, ’76 

M.Div., ’77 S.T.M. 

Mr. F. Richard Bowen ’70 

Mr. Lewis C. Bowers, II ’75, ’83 M.P.P.M. 

& Ms. Susan R. Fries ’84 M.S.N. 

Mr. Bruce E. Bradley ’67* 

Mr. Robert Bradner ’84* 

Ms. Shirley D. Brandman ’83, ’86 J.D. 

Mr. Joseph Berkman-Breen ’12 

& Mr. Robert Berkman 

Mr. Sherman T. Brewer, Jr. ’64 

Dr. Laura C.W. Brightman ’90 

& Mr. Howard Brightman 

Mr. Jay Broderick 

Ms. Donna L. Brown ’86 

& Mr. Christopher M. Mayer ’84 

Mr. Josiah H. Brown ’92 

Mr. Carlos Brown ’23 

Mr. Charles E. Browne ’65 

Dr. C. Scott Brunger, Ph.D. ’68 

Ms. Carol A. Buckler ’78 

Mr. Andrew L. Bundy ’76 

Prof. & Mrs. Frederick Bunnell ’55, ’58 M.A.T. 

Ms. Justyna B. Burr ’77 

Dr. Michelina M. Cairo ’00 

Hon. Guido G. Calabresi ’53, ’58 LL.B., ’62 

M.A.H. & Mrs. Anne Tyler Calabresi* 

Mr. & Mrs. John G. Campbell ’68* 

The Rev. Donald Campbell, II ’48, ’53 B.D. 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Carpenter ’65, 

’68 Mus.M. & Ms. Martha E. Gale 

Ms. Jennifer H. Carter ’08 

Ms. Valerie J. Chang ’84 

Mr. Daniel M. Chase ’69 

Mr. Henry S. Chauncey, Jr. ’57 

Mr. Donald T. Chen ’89, ’92 M.E.S. 

Ms. Eileen Choi Noh ’98 

Ms. Yue-Han Chow ’01 

Dr. Martin Christ ’82, ’88 M.F.S. 

Prof. & Mrs. Clifford E. Clark Jr. ’63 

Mr. Fred D. Clarke, III ’73 

Mr. Frank B. Cochran ’69 LL.B. 

& Ms. Stephanie FitzGerald 

Mr. Henry J. Cody, PE ’74 

Mr. Adam P. Cohen ’77 

Mr. Gregory W. Coleman ’69 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Colgate ’68* 

Dr. J. Michael Collaco ’96 

& Ms. Aarti Shah 

Bob & Mary Beth Congdon Fund of The 

Community Foundation for Greater 

New Haven 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Connolly ’73* 

Ms. Kathryn Cooney 

Ms. Julie Copeland ’71 

Mr. Daniel Cotton ’91 

Dr. Carl L. Crew, Jr. ’68 

Mr. Edmund G. Crotty ’66* 

Ms. Nancy E. Cunningham ’92 

& Mr. Thomas Stockdale 

Mr. Alexander C. Daberko ’05 

& Ms. Larisa Terkeltaub Daberko ’05 

The Rev. Teresa M. Danieley, D.Min. ’98 

Prof. Stephen L. Darwall ’68, ’08 M.A.H. 

Mr. & Mrs. F. Davis Dassori Jr., ’63, ’68 LL.B.* 

Mr. Robert S. Day, Jr. ’68 

Dr. Juan de la Mora ’80 Ph.D. 

Mr. Jean-Christophe de Swaan ’93 

Mr. Charles Y. Deknatel, Ph.D. ’66 

Mr. C. Timothy Delaney ’79 

Dr. James E. DeLano, Jr. ’65, ’70 M.D. 

The Rev. & Mrs. William H. Dent, Jr. ’58* 

Ms. Susan L. DeSilver ’79* 

The Rev. Jeanne Devine ’72, ’76 M.Div. 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter K. Dickinson ’60* 

Mr. Lowell Dodge ’63 

Mr. David L. Dodson ’77, ’81 M.Div., 

’81 M.P.P.M.* 

Mr. Marc Dohan ’84 & Ms. Marion Magill* 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Draper, ’75* 

Mr. William H. Draper, III ’50 

Mr. & Dr. Eugene C. Durman ’68* 

Ms. Orianne Y. Dutka ’02 

Prof. Joseph G. Gall ’48, ’52 Ph.D. 

& Dr. Diane M. Dwyer 

Mr. Todd E. Edelman ’90 

& Ms. Marisa O. Nightingale ’90 

Mr. Donald B. Edwards ’64 

Mr. R. Kemerer Edwards ’49* 

Mr. Christopher S. Edwards ’01 

& Ms. Silpa S. Pericherla ’02 

Mr. William D. Eggers ’66* 

Ms. Erin Eifler Mulron ’00 

Mr. Edward H. Elliman ’85 M.E.S. 

Ms. Jennifer C. Elliott 

Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Ellison ’57 

Mr. Aurelio Emanuelli Freese ’88, ’91 J.D. 

& Ms. Maria I. Castaner Barcelo 

Mr. & Mrs. John W. Ewell, Jr. ’66* 

Mr. David P. Ewing ’62 

Ms. Sally Fazzone 

Rabbi Robert S. Feinberg ’75 

Mr. Robert A. Fertik ’79 

& Ms. Antonia E. Stolper ’79* 

Dr. Karin E. Finberg ’93, ’02 Ph.D., ’03 M.D. 

Ms. Carla Finkelstein ’90 

Mr. Joseph B. Foltz, ’75 

Dr. & Mrs. Reginald E. Ford, III ’69 

Mr. Michael A. Fotos ’78 

& Ms. Claudia F. Lindsey 

Ms. Erica R. Franklin ’05 

& Mr. Jason M. Rogers 

Ms. Deborah J. Freedman ’82 

& Mr. Ben A. Ledbetter 

Mr. Joseph S. Freeman ’66 

Mr. Peter L. Freeman ’71 

Dr. Gary Friedlaender 

& Mrs. Linda K. Friedlaender 

Dr. Charles P. Gagarin ’71 

Ms. Anne H. Galvin ’07 

Mr. Michael Gamzon ’91 

& Ms. Rebecca D. Gamzon ’91 

Ms. Susan H. Garet ’76 M.Div.* 

Mr. Robert M. Garfinkle, ’68* 

Lt. Col. Charles J. Gaspar Jr. ’65 

Ms. Evelyn Q. H. Getman 

Dr. David H. Gibson ’78 

& Ms. Lizanne M. Cox 

Dr. Jonathan N. Glickman ’87 

Dr. Doreen S. Gluckin ’71 

& Dr. Richard A. Kanter 

Ms. Judith E. Goldberger ’92* 

Mr. John R. Goldin ’77 Ph.D. 

Mr. Brian P. Goldman ’05 

& Ms. Zoe L. Palitz ’05 

Mr. Henry A. Goodman ’72* 

Ms. Julie L. Goran ’00 

Ms. Aliza S. Gordon ’08 

Ms. Laurie J. Gould ’85 

Mr. Roger W. Grawe ’68, ’68 M.A. 

Ms. Susan Greiner* 

Mr. Joshua A. Griggs ’03 

& Mrs. Kerri-Ann A. Griggs ’03 

Mr. Douglas M. Griggs ’64 

The Rev. Bonita D. Grubbs ’84 M.A.R., 

’85 M.P.H. 

Mr. Matthew A. Gubens ’97 

Mr. Evan C. Guillemin ’87 

& Ms. Ricki Stern 

Ms. Avni Gupta-Kagan ’00, ’05 J.D. 

& Mr. Joshua D. Gupta-Kagan ’00 

Mr. Alfred E. Guy, Jr.* 

Mr. Philip B. Hallen ’58 M.S. 

Dr. Jodi L. Halpern ’82, ’89 M.D., ’93 Ph.D. 

Mr. Steven D. Handler, M.D. ’68 

& Ms. Cynthia B. Solot* 

Ms. Joan Handschumacher* 

Ms. Masarath N. Haque-Khan ’95 

Mr. Sean B. Hecht ’88 

Mr. Mitchell Heineman ’83 

Mr. Scott R. Herhold ’71 

Dr. Mary E. Hess ’85 

& Mr. Eric F. Celeste ’85 



Acknowledgments, continued 

The Rev. Ellen M. Hiatt ’79 M.Div. 

Mr. Peter V. R. Hicks ’64* 

Dr. & Dr. George J. Hill ’53 

Mr. & Ms. Harald Hille ’66, ’70 M.Phil. 

Ms. Melissa J. Hilton ’83, ’89 M.B.A. 

Mr. Michael J. Hirschhorn ’81 

& Ms. Jimena P. Martinez 

Mr. Stephen J. Hoffman ’64 

Mr. & Ms. Alan R. Hoffman ’66* 

Mr. Jerome L. Hoganson ’58 

Mr. Richard P. Holloway ’63, ’65 B.E.* 

Mr. Daniel J. Horner ’83* 

Mr. Robert A. Horwitz ’68, ’76 Ph.D. 

& Ms. Carla M. Horwitz, Ph.D. 

Mr. Winchester F. Hotchkiss ’52 

Mr. & Mrs. Gary R. Howard ’68* 

Prof. & Mrs. Roger E. Howe ’74 M.A.H.* 

Mr. William C. Howe ’68, ’79 M.Phil.* 

Dr. John S. Hughes ’08 M.A.H. 

Ms. Laura Huizar ’06, ’12 J.D.* 

Ms. Amanda R. Ivatorov ’24 

Prof. Vicki C. Jackson ’72, ’75 J.D. 

Dr. Selby C. Jacobs ’61, ’72 M.P.H. 

Ms. Karin T. Jacobson ’95 

Mr. John L. Jayne ’70 

Mr. Jeffrey A. Johnson, Ph.D. ’74 

Mr. Alexander B. Johnson, III ’61 

Mr. Ralph C. Jones, Jr. ’64 

Ms. Alison Bailey Kaar ’80 

& Mr. John F. Kaar* 

Mr. Allan N. Karlin ’69 

& Ms. Mildred C. Karlin 

Mr. Joel Katz ’65, ’67 M.F.A. 

& Ms. Trish Thompson 

Dr. Stephen R. Kaufman ’81* 

Ms. Katherine R. Kaufman ’86 

Dr. Richard D. Kayne ’76 M.D. 

Mr. Gilbert Keith-Agaran ’84 

Dr. Marissa Kellogg ’03 

Ms. Carolyn Kenady ’74 

Ms. Georgia L. Keohane ’94 

& Mr. Nathaniel O. Keohane ’93 

Ms. Madeline S. Kerner ’07 

& Mr. David Korngold 

Mr. Charles H. Kieffer, Ph.D. ’74 

Mr. Jeffrey S. Kim ’87 & Mr. Curtis Chin* 

Mr. William R. Kincaid ’88* 

Mr. Donald A. Kirshbaum 

Mr. Whitman E. Knapp ’62, ’64 M.A.T. 

Mr. Daniel F. Koehler ’00* 

Ms. Lori S. Kornblum ’79 

Ms. Dara Kovel ’91, ’06 M.B.A. 

& Mr. Robert Cox 

Mr. Hugo E. Kranz Jr. ’59 

Mr. Joshua A. Kretman ’05 

Dean Ferentz Lafargue ’05 Ph.D. 

Prof. Richard B. Larson ’75 M.A.H.* 

Dr. Robert L. Leahy ’67, ’74 Ph.D. 

Ms. Emma F. Ledbetter ’10 

Mr. Peter W. Lee ’65 

Mr. Robert F. Leibenluft ’73 

& Dr. Ellen Leibenluft ’74 

Mr. Reid M. Lerner ’99 

Rabbi Peter S. Levi ’86 & Ms. Ruth Levi 

Mr. Irwin T. Levy 

& Ms. Rachel Barnett 

Rev. David T. Lewicki ’97 

Mr. Mark H. Leymaster ’75 J.D. 

Ms. Helen M. Ligh ’87 

Mr. William E. Littlefield, Jr. ’70 

Prof. Katie Lofton, Ph.D. 

Mr. Justin R. Loring ’04 

Mr. Kenneth K. Y. Luke ’62 

Mr. Barry P. Luke ’80 

& Mrs. Teresa W. Luke* 

The Rev. John S. Luttrell ’65 

Mr. Mark H. Lynch ’66 

Dr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Madeira, Jr. ’68 

Ms. Erin Mahoney 

Mr. Abdul-Rehman Malik 

& Ms. Fareena Alam 

Mr. Alan N. Mallach ’66* 

Ms. Laura M. Manville ’06 

Dr. Richard Marottoli ’80, ’84 M.D., ’91 M.P.H. 

Mr. William R. Massa, Jr.* 

Dr. David S. May ’69 

Mr. Robert A. Mayans ’73 

Mr. Oscar H. Mayer ’65* 

Mr. Theodore V. H. Mayer ’74 

Ms. Melissa Mazzeo ’20 M.B.A., ’20 M.E.M. 

Capt. Kenneth G. McAdams ’58 

Dr. & Mrs. David M. McCarthy ’67* 

Mr. Randall R. McCathren ’71 

Ms. Sarah W. McKenzie ’93 

Mr. Peter W. McKinnis ’91* 

Ms. Linda C. McKoy ’77 

& Mr. Samuel M. Maruca ’77 

Dr. Robert K. McLellan ’73, ’78 M.D., 

’78 M.P.H. 

Dr. Thomas Meola, Jr. & Ms. Judy Kang 

Ms. Kristen Meola ’26 

Mr. & Ms. John R. Merrick, ’62, ’63 M.A.T.* 

Ms. Claudia R. Merson 

Mr. Calvin M. Mew ’69* 

Ms. Stephanie A. Meyer ’95 

& Mr. Eric A. Dunn 

Ms. Molly Meyer* 

Mr. Thomas C. Meyer ’11 

Mr. Anthony R. Michel ’59 

Ms. Francine Miller 

Mr. Wentworth E. Miller ’69, ’77 J.D. 

Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Moggio ’67, ’71 M.D.* 

Dr. Juan P. Montermoso ’69 

Ms. Julia D. Moore 

Dr. Mayumi A. Mori ’86 

Mr. Hunter Morrison, III ’70 

Mr. Martin L. Murray ’61* 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Murray ’68 

Mr. William S. Myers ’64 

Mr. Noah R. Neal ’12, ’12 B.S. 

Mr. Matthew R. Neely ’91 

Mr. Matthew L. Nemerson ’81 M.P.P.M. 

Mr. Brian R. Nesin ’91 

Mr. Scott N. Newman ’77 

& Ms. Wendy Newman* 

Ms. Tiffany K. Ng ’05 

The Rev. Dr. Paula B. Nordhem ’86 M.Div. 

Professor Thomas C. Nowak ’65 

Ms. Deanna M. Matsumoto ’84 

& Mr. Tor H. Ormseth ’84 

Dr. Jack H. Ostroff ’76* 

Ms. Laura Pabo* 

Ms. Susan L. Papa & Mr. David Schatz ’80, 

’80 M.S. 

Ms. Nilakshi Parndigamage ’06 

Dr. Mary C. Pearl ’72, ’76 M.Phil, ’82 Ph.D. 

Mr. Ethan L. Perry ’95 

Dr. McKim C. Peterson ’70 

Dr. E. Anthony Petrelli ’61 

The Rev. Susan M. Pfeil ’94, ’02 M.Div. 

Dr. Lauren Pinzka & Prof. Steven T. Berry 

Mr. Madhu R. Pocha ’01 

Mr. Jeremy R. Poindexter ’11* 

Mr. James W. Poindexter ’75 

& Ms. Sarah C. Poindexter 

Dr. Mark J. Polisar ’84 

Mr. David J. Pollay ’87 

Ms. Nira Pollock ’93 

Dr. Stanley Possick & Ms. Barbara Possick* 

Mr. Samuel J. Post ’08 

Gregory S. Prince, Jr. ’61, ’73 Ph.D. 

Mr. Adler Prioly ’09 

Mr. David M. Pritzker ’62 

& Mrs. Charlene Pritzker* 

Ms. Sharon J. Prober 

& Prof. Daniel E. Prober 

Prof. Alexander Purves ’58, ’65 M.Arch. 

Ms. Diane K. Quan ’95 

Mr. Yusuf Rasheed ’25 

Mr. Steven D. Redfield ’80* 

Mr. Jacob A. C. Remes ’02 & Ms. Mari 

Armstrong-Hough ’16 M.P.H.* 

Mr. Christopher S. Rhee ’94, ’97 J.D. 

& Ms. Jeannie S. Rhee ’94, ’97 J.D. 

Mr. & Mrs. Gordon P. Riblet ’65* 

Mr. R. Thomas Rich ’72 

Ms. Eve B. Rittenberg ’90 

& Mr. Jeffrey B. Liebman ’89* 

Ms. Ann M. Ritter ’01 & Mr. Leo Korein 

Mr. Peter E. Rivard ’76* 

Mr. John H. Rixse ’63 

Mr. James S. Roberts ’66* 

Lupi & John Robinson Fund of The 


New Haven 

Mr. Daniel T. Roble ’68 

Mr. Philip A. Roden ’62* 

Mr. Thomas W. Roderick ’64 

Professor Gordon M. Rogoff ’52 

Mr. & Mrs. David Rosenberg ’63, ’67 LL.B.* 

Ms. Michelle J. Rosenthal ’05 

& Mr. Isaac M. Klausner ’05 

Dr. Ralph A. Rossi ’84 M.P.H. 

Dr. Jan L. Roth ’72, Ph.D. 

Ms. Randi I. Roth ’79 

Mr. Richard L. Rubens, Ph.D. ’68 

Prof. David M. Rudenstine ’63, ’65 M.A.T. 

& Dr. Zina Steinberg 

Ms. Holly Russell ’88* 

Mrs. Sandra E. Sanneh ’93 M.A. 

Dr. Gabriel T. Sayer ’98 

Mr. Johnny Scafidi ’01 

& Ms. Paige M. Nelson ’04 M.A.R.* 

The Reverend Doctor Charles Scalise 

& Professor Pamela J. Scalise 

Ms. Nancy Scanlon 

Ms. Erin A. Scharff ’04 

The Reverend James A. Scherer ’46 

Mr. HJ Schmidt ’70 & Ms. Debora A. Slee 

Mr. Duncan M. Schmitt ’81, ’96 M.E.S. 

Ms. Deena J. Schneider ’71 

Mr. J. B. Schramm ’86 

Prof. T. Paul Schultz ’74 M.A.H.* 

Ms. Kate Scorza Ingram ’04 M.B.A. 

Prof. James C. Scott ’67 Ph.D. 

Ms. Olivia Sears ’86 

Dr. Robert P. Sedgwick, Jr. ’69* 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry N. Selness ’63* 

Ms. Aditi Sen ’05 & Mr. Sudhir Muralidhar 

Ms. Diana L. Senechal ’89, ’99 Ph.D. 

Ms. Deborah Frank Shabecoff ’88 

Ms. Sarah Hirschhorn Shapiro ’84* 

Mr. Arloc M. Sherman ’87 

Nellie Shipley Sullivan ’87 

Ms. Karen J. Siegel ’02 & Mr. Charles Natt 

Ms. Marisa G. Silverstein ’92 

& Mr. Zachary B. Silverstein ’90* 

Mr. Richard C. Singer ’70 

Ms. Anika Singh Lemar ’01 

The Rev. & Mrs. Peter W. Sipple ’62 

Prof. Kerala J. Snyder ’70 Ph.D. 

Dr. Daniel H. Solomon ’86, ’92 M.D. 

& Ms. Mindy Berman 

Mr. T. Reginald Solomon ’98 

Ms. Eliza Spinna ’23 

Ms. Andrea M. Sreshta ’06 

Mr. Robert M. St. John, ’54, ’59 LL.B. 

Mr. Earl H. Staelin ’62 

Mr. Lawrence H. Staib ’90 Ph.D. 

Mr. G. Scott Staniar ’85 

Mr. Keith W. Stavely ’64, ’69 Ph.D.* 

Mr. Jon E. Steffensen, ’68 

Ms. Janet B. Stein ’81 

Mr. James Stentzel ’65 

Ms. Theresa A. Stephen ’92 

Mr. Mark L. Stivers ’91 

Mr. Samuel N. Stokes ’63* 

Ms. Lisa E. Stone ’78, ’82 M.P.H. 

& Dr. Scott B. Cantor ’81* 

Mr. Shepard B. Stone* 

Ms. Lindsay Stradley ’03 

Mr. Lee M. Strieb ’86 & Dr. Shari Golan* 

Prof. H. Shelton Stromquist, Ph.D. ’66 

& Ms. Ann M. Stromquist* 

Ms. Maureen Sullivan-Drury 

Ms. Leila Y. Surratt ’86 

Dr. Roslyn E. Sutherland ’63 M.S.N. 

& Mr. Donald W. Sutherland 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Lloyd Suttle ’69, ’75 Ph.D. 

Ms. Dorothy Sutton* 

Ms. Julie Swaney ’83 M.Div. 

Mrs. Patricia E. Sweet* 

Mr. Philip C. Taff ’07 

Ms. Kiran Tahir 

Dr. John I. Takayama ’80* 

Ms. Sahoko V. Tamagawa ’84 

Mr. Stanley Tamarkin ’77 M.A., ’83 Ph.D. 

The Rev. Kenneth J. Thomas, Ph.D. ’53* 

Mr. Douglas C. Tifft ’79 

Mr. Timothy M. Tompkins ’86* 

Ms. Abigail L. Trillin ’90 

& Mr. Brian C. Lee ’88* 

Dr. Heather E. Trim ’83* 

Mr. Chi Tschang ’98 

Mr. Thaddeus F. Tuleja ’66 

& Ms. Andree Nolen 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Tynes ’66 

Dr. Stephen C. Updegrove ’74 

& Ms. Kathleen M. Hayes ’98 M.S.N.* 

Ms. Jane Levy Vance ’08 

Mrs. Cassandra D. Vaughan ’87 

Ms. Eve Vogel ’87 

Mr. & Mrs. Boris G. Von York ’59 

Mr. Thomas J. Wacht ’65* 

Ms. Janna M. Wagner ’95 

Dr. Victoria M. Wang ’86 

Mr. Thomas E. Weil, Jr. ’70 

Mr. G. Harold Welch Jr. ’50 

Mr. Samuel R. F. White ’08 

Dr. James M. Whitehead ’67 

& Dr. Jean C. Cook 

Mr. Alan P. Wichlei ’70 

& Ms. Janice A. Litwin 

Mrs. Elaine S. Wickstrom 

Dr. William H. Wiese ’60* 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Wik ’68, ’77 Ph.D.* 

Mr. John W. Wilhelm ’67 

Mr. David Wilkins 

& Ms. Serena Crawford 

Mr. John A. Wilkinson ’60, ’63 M.A.T. 

& Ms. Virginia T. Wilkinson ’62 M.A.T. 



Acknowledgments, continued 

Ms. Martha L. Williams ’84 

& Ms. Honora M. Willcutts 

Mr. Richard A. Wines ’68* 

Mr. Michael J. Wishnie ’87, ’93 J.D. 

& Ms. Catherine J. Edwards ’87 

Mr. Robert S. Withers ’69* 

Mr. Stephen Wizner 

& Mrs. Rachel Wizner 

Mr. Richard B. Wolf, Ph.D. ’69 

Ms. Amy D. Woolever ’95* 

Dr. Mary L. Woolsey ’80 

Mr. Vladimir Wozniuk ’82 M.A.R. 

Ms. Marian V. Wrobel ’86 

Prof. Robert J. Wyman ’80 M.A.H. 

Dr. Ting S. Yee ’73 

Ms. Elizabeth C. Yen ’76 

The Rev. J. Philip Zaeder ’58, ’62 M.Div. 

& Mrs. Sylvia L. Thayer* 

Dr. Norman Zamcheck ’70 

Ms. Emily X. Zhang ’25 

Mr. Jack M. Zimmerman ’53 

Ms. Emily J. Zuckerman ’74 

FOUNDATION & 

CORPORATE ADVOCATES 

AmazonSmile Foundation 

Christensen Dunn Early Foundations 

Fund 

The Community Foundation for Greater 

New Haven* 

Henry F. English Fund of The 


New Haven 

Lostand Foundation, Inc.* 

PayPal Giving Fund 

SUMMER FELLOWS 

PROGRAM SUPPORT 

The Charlotte Foundation* 

The Rev. Teresa M. Danieley, D.Min. ’98 

Mr. F. Jay Dougherty ’71 

Mr. Hugh R. McCombs ’68* 

Dr. & Mrs. David L. Warren ’70 M.Div., 

’70 M.U.S.* 

Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance 

Yale Club of New Haven* 

SPECIAL GIFTS & 

PROGRAMMATIC 

CONTRIBUTIONS 

American Rescue Plan, Connecticut 

Elementary and Secondary School 

Emergency Relief Grant Program 

Ms. Brenda S. Breslauer ’86, ’96 M.S.L. 

& Mr. Richard Demak 

Carolyn Foundation 

Dr. Joshua Chodosh ’76 in memory of 

Herb & Jean Cahoon 

Connecticut Mental Health Center 

Foundation 

Connecticut State Department of 

Education After-School Grant 

Program* 

Mr. Carl M. Eifler ’70 

Mr. Joseph W. Gordon ’78 Ph.D. 

& Mr. Mark Bauer in honor of John R. 

Meeske ’74 

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving 

Mr. William R. Massa, Jr.* 

Mr. Steven D. Masters ’81 in memory of 

Herb Cahoon 

Dr. & Mrs. David M. McCarthy ’67* 

PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. 

Ms. Constance L. Royster ’72 in memory 

of Kathrine Burdick* 

The Sassafras Foundation, Inc.* 

Ms. Meghan K. Titzer ’06 

United Way of Greater New Haven* 

Marie & John Zimmerman Fund* 

YALE UNIVERSITY SUPPORT 

Office of New Haven Affairs 

Office of the President 

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at 

Yale 

Yale College Dean’s Office 

Yale Divinity School 

ENDOWED FUNDS 

Herb Cahoon Campus and Community 

Fund 

The Jane and William E. Curran ’49 

Distinguished Mentor Fund 

Early Childhood Education Fund 

David Magee Fund 

Dr. Peter R. Muehrer ’82 Fund 

Dwight Hall Socially Responsible 

Investment Fund 

Summer Fellows Fund 

MATCHING GIFTS 

Anonymous 

Benevity, Inc. 

California Wellness Foundation 

Betty & Davis Fitzgerald Foundation 

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation 

Google 

John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur 

Foundation 

McKinsey 

Microsoft Matching Gifts 

Open Society Foundations 

Prospect Hill Foundation 

United Health Group 

Värde Partners 

MUSLIM LEADERSHIP LAB 

FY23 SUPPORTERS 


Dr. Saeed A. Bajwa & Ms. Zakira S. Bajwa 

John Fetzer Institute 

Ms. Masarath N. Haque-Khan ’95 

Mr. Abdul-Rehman Malik 

& Ms. Fareena Alam 

Prof. Intisar Rabb ’06 J.D. 

Dr. Ehtisham U. Siddiqui 

& Ms. Sadia Siddiqui 

Yale University Chaplain’s Office, 

Muslim Life Program 

YALE PRISON 

EDUCATION INITIATIVE 

FY23 SUPPORTERS 

Anonymous (15) 

A.L. Steiner 

Alexandra Daum 

Alida Engel 

Amanda Ehrman 

Anna Shechtman ’17 M.A. ’17 M.Phil., 

’20 Ph.D. 

Anne Hirschhorn ’08 

Ari Stern 

Barb & Ernie Moritz 

Barbara Hall 

Bonnie Yochelson & Paul Shechtman 

Brittany Dixon 

Caleb Smith 

Charlotte Anastasio 

David R.R. McKinnis ’87 

& Elizabeth R. McKinnis ’89 

Deborah Elkin ’90 M.A., ’90 M.Phil., 

’95 Ph.D. 

Dustin Nguyen ’18 

Elaine Chu ’82 

Eliza Lord ’24 

Ellen Nye ’19 M.A., ’19 M.Phil, ’22 Ph.D. 

Ernest Moritz 

Ezra Levine 

Gabby Colangelo ’21 

Gayle Engel 

Hannah Burnett ’08 

Hector Jimenez ’18YPEI 

Helen Kauder & Barry Nalebuff 

Holly Antolini 

Isabella Levenson 

J. Nick Fisk ’23 Ph.D. 

Jade Chowning ’19, ’24 J.D. 

James Huffman 

Jane Evans 

Janis Jin ’20 

Jeanne Lowrey 

Jeff Slocum 

Jeremy Travis ’70 

Jess Fardella ’73 

Jesse Zwick 

Jessica Sanchez 

Jessica Yu 

Jingchu Lin 

Jo Ann Singer 

Joanne Brandwood ’81 

Jocelyn Pineda 

John Durham Peters ’17 M.A.H. 

Jon Schlesinger 

Joshua McGilvray ’20 

Kate Monaghan ’09 

Katherine Sloss 

Kathryn Slanski 

Keshawnta Johnson 

Kim Gittleson 

Laura Adler ’08 

Laura Wasserson 

Laura Wexler ’02 M.A.H. 

Laurel Gray 

Leonard S. Freedman 

Liberty Godshall 

Lily Rothman ’08 

Lisa Lowe ’07 M.A.H. 

Lisbeth Kaufman ’08 in honor of 

Charlotte Kaufman 

Liza Kuritsky 

Lucy Hunter ’16 M.A., ’16 M.Phil., ’21 Ph.D. 

M. Carlah Esdaile Bragg 

Maddie Murphy 

Mara Lavitt 

Maryanne Ullmann 

Masu Haque-Kahn ’95 

Maud McInerney 

Max Abelson ’06 

Megan Marion Kelly in honor of 

Zelda Roland 

Meghan Titzer ’06 

Michael Libunao-Macalintal ’20 M.Div. 

Michael Mallon 

Miko McGinty ’93, ’98 M.F.A. 

Mira Debs ’13 M.A., ’13 M.Phil., ’16 Ph.D. 

Miranda Popkey ’09 

Molly Fischer ’09 

Mona Elsayed ’08 

Natasha Roland 

Olivia Scheck ’09 

Paul Spera ’08 & Francesca Toich 

Peter Connolly ’73 

Peter Wicks 

Rachel Mannheimer ’07 

Rachel Rose ’09 

Rebecca Eisenbrey ’09 

Rhonda Singer ’72 

Ricky Zacharias ’19 J.D. 

Rob Wiesenberger 

Robert W. Norris II 

Samantha Hennessey ’08 

Samantha Mahoney 

Sarah Brown 

Sarah Leverett 

Sarah Mahurin ’05 M.A., ’07 M.Phil., 

’11 Ph.D. 

Sarah McKenzie ’93 

Sarah O’Brien ’09 

Shauna Miller 

Simone Blaser 

Sophia Jackson ’06 

Sophia Lear ’08 

Sophia Lewis 

Steven F. Hecker ’72 

Steven McDonald 

Suzanna Lee ’08 in honor of Zelda 

Roland 

Tadhg Dooley 

Tess Wheelwright ’06 

The Morris Foundation, Inc. 

Valerie Pierce ’84, ’88 J.D. 

Victoria Baena ’18 M.A., ’18 M.Phil., 

’21 Ph.D. 

Willa Ferrer ’24 

William Glasspiegel ’05, ’17 M.A., 

’17 M.Phil, ’23 Ph.D. 

Zoe Rosenbloom 

YALE PRISON EDUCATION 

INITIATIVE SPECIAL 

CONTRIBUTIONS 

Bard College 

Center for the Study of Race, 

Indigeneity, and Transnational 

Migration 


New Haven 

Jobs for the Future / Ascendium 

Education Group 

Mellon Foundation 

National Philanthropic Trust 

Prospect Hill Foundation 

Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences 

Yale School of Art 

Yale College Dean’s Office 

United Way of Greater New Haven 

University of New Haven 


DWIGHT HALL LEGACY SOCIETY 

The Dwight Hall Legacy Society recognizes and honors alumni, parents, and friends who have included Dwight 

Hall at Yale in their long-term financial and estate plans through a bequest provision in their will, by establishing 

a life-income gift, or another form of deferred gift. The Board of Directors, students, and staff extend gratitude to 

the following individuals who have included Dwight Hall at Yale in their wills or estate plans. 

Anonymous 

Dr. Sarah W. Baron ’04 & Mr. Jeremy S. Kahan ’04 

Mr. Peter B. Bensinger ’58 

Mr. Bob Congdon ’72 and Ms. Mary Beth Congdon 

Mr. David L. Dodson ’77, ’81 M.P.P.M., ’81 M.Div. 

FISCAL YEAR 2023 FINANCIAL STATEMENT 

July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023: Audited 

REVENUE 

Individual & Foundation Contributions (unrestricted) $327,232 

Restricted Contributions & Program Income 1,270,932 

State Grant (Co-Op After School Program) 201,378 

Mr. Carl M. Eifler ’70 

Mr. Russel H. Goddard ’54 

in memory of Wendell Converse Goddard & Edward Hume YC ’25 * 

Ms. Laura Huizar ’06, ’12 J.D. 

Dr. Peter R. Muehrer ’82 

Mr. Charles R. S. Shepard ’51, ’54 M.A., ’84 M.Div. * 

Mr. Timothy M. Tompkins ’86 

The Rev. J. Philip Zaeder ’58, ’62 M.Div. 

* Deceased 

If you have already designated 

Dwight Hall in your estate plan or 

would like further information, please 

contact Director of Philanthropy 

David Wilkins at 203-432-2021 or 

david.wilkins@yale.edu. 

University Contributions 252,386 

Dwight Hall Investment Fund Operating Support 501,247 

Other Income (including fees, bank interest) 47,537 

Total Revenue $2,600,712 

EXPENSES 

Program 

LEGACY SOCIETY SPOTLIGHT: 

BOB CONGDON ’72 

“When I began my career in the 

nonprofit sector by providing 

community services for senior 

adults in Greater New Haven, 

I worked with Dwight Hall 

students who organized a job 

placement service and a 

newspaper for older adults. Then I 

collaborated with a Dwight Hall student to publish 

an evaluative guide to nursing homes in the area. 

I’ve witnessed how Dwight Hall offers Yale students 

valuable opportunities to provide community 

service, develop new programs that meet emerging 

needs, and gain exposure to people and issues 

outside of Yale. That’s why I have included a gift to 

Dwight Hall in my estate plans.” 

Community Engagement 370,946 

Co-Op After School Program 200,440 

Leadership & Professional Development 451,201 

Macropartnerships & Emerging Projects 427,491 

Yale Prison Education Initiative 685,832 

Doctors United for Ukraine 76,908 

Administration & Management 153,303 

Development 183,937 

Total Expenses $2,550,058 



2023 STUDENT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

DWIGHT HALL STAFF 

William An ’24 

Senior Co-Coordinator 

Emily Zhang ’25 

Junior Co-Coordinator 

Paola Flores Sanchez ’25 

Institutional Service 

Coordinator 

Kristen Meola ’26 

Financial Coordinator 

Josie Jahng ’24 

Deputy Financial Coordinator 

Sevi Burget-Foster ’23 

Programming Fellow 

Alexine Casanova 

Operations Manager 

Kaley Casenhiser 

’25 M.E.M./M.Div., 

Reverend John G. Magee ’06 

Fellow 

Peter Crumlish ’09 M.A.R. 

Executive Director and 

General Secretary 

Amadie Gajanaike ’26 

Communications 


Catalina Mahe ’26 

Communications 


Nikhe Braimah ’25 

Engagement Coordinator 

Vanessa Estimé 

Assistant Director, Yale 

Prison Education Initiative 

Mark Fopeano 

Director of Programming 

and Evaluation 

Paul Bryant Hudson 

Program Director, 


James Jeter 

Program Director, 

New Haven Civic 

Allyship Initiative 

Stephen King 

Outreach and Engagement 

Coordinator, Co-Op After School 

SPOTLIGHT ON 

DWIGHT HALL 

DAY OF SERVICE 2023 

Avery DeWitt ’26 


Caitlin Monksy ’24 


Rosa Anderson Barrera ’25 

Membership Coordinator 

In November 2023, Dwight Hall 

held its annual Day of Service, 

where Yale students build deeper 

relationships with the New Haven 

community by volunteering at 

local organizations like New 

Haven Reads, CitySeed, Integrated 

Refugee & Immigrant Services, 

and the New Haven Tutoring 

Initiative. 

Emme Magliato ’23 

Program Assistant, Yale Prison 

Education Initiative 

Abdul-Rehman Malik 

Director, Muslim 

Leadership Lab 

Claudia Merson 

Education Advisor 

Morad Mokhtari 

Finance Manager 

Hiroko Kawase ’26 


Rena Liu ’26 


Josephine Cureton ’24 

New Membership Coordinator 

This year marked the first Day of 

Service since the outbreak of the 

COVID-19 pandemic and was 

organized by Paola Flores 

Sanchez ’25, the Institutional 

Service Coordinator on Dwight 

Hall’s Student Executive 

Committee (ExComm), and 

supported by fellow ExCommers, 

including Catalina Mahe ’26 

(pictured on the right). 

Barbara Mola ’22 

Communications and Alumni 

Engagement Associate 

Zelda Roland ’08, ’16 Ph.D. 

Director, Yale Prison 

Education Initiative 

Johnny Scafidi ’01 

Director of Community 

Outreach and Engagement 

Tracy Westmoreland 

Danbury Site Director and 

Transfer Counselor, Yale 

Prison Education Initiative 

David Wilkins 

Director of 

Philanthropy 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

Mr. Bradford Williams ’10, Board Chair 

Ms. Sandra Lee ’97, Vice Chair 

Ms. Laura Huizar ’06, ’12 J.D., Secretary 

Ms. Madeline Kerner ’07, Treasurer 

Mr. Thomas C. Meyer ’11, Chair of Investments 

Mr. Peter Crumlish ’09 M.A.R., Ex-Officio 

Ms. Rena Liu ’26, Student Co-Coordinator, 

Ex-Officio 

Ms. Emily Zhang ’25, Student Co-Coordinator, 

Ex-Officio 


Imam Omer Bajwa 

Dr. Sarah W. Baron ’04 

Dr. Abie Benitez 

Ms. Anna Blanding ’03, ’09 M.B.A. 

Mr. David Dodson ’77, ’81 M.P.P.M., ’81 M.Div. 

Ms. Paola Flores Sanchez ’25, Student Member 

Ms. Hiroko Kawase ’26, Student Member 

Dean Ferentz Lafargue ’05 Ph.D. 

Ms. Anika Singh Lemar ’01 

Prof. Katie Lofton 

Ms. Kristen Meola ’26, Student Member 

Ms. Nilakshi Parndigamage ’06 

Mr. Yusuf Rasheed ’25, Student Member 

Ms. Randi Roth ’79, Audit Committee Chair 

Mr. Benjamin Staub ’06 

Ms. Kiran Tahir 

Mr. Tim Tompkins ’86, Development 

Committee Chair 

Dwight Hall extends its appreciation to William 

An ’24, Carlos Brown ’23, Carl Eifler ’70, and Eliza 

Spinna ’23, who completed their terms in 2023. 

BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: 

LAURA HUIZAR ’06, ’12 J.D. 

Laura Huizar ’06, ’12 J.D. became involved in Dwight Hall as a first-year 

student through Bridges ESL, a Dwight Hall student-led member group that 

teaches English as a second language to New Haven residents. She loved 

connecting with students and learning about their life as immigrants in 

New Haven. Laura also served as a Co-Coordinator on the Hall’s Student 

Executive Committee in 2005. After college, Laura worked closely with 

the Dwight Hall Urban Fellows as a community liaison while working for 

Junta for Progressive Action, a nonprofit in New Haven. 

GET INVOLVED 

You are invited to advance programs like Summer Fellows by contacting 

Executive Director Peter Crumlish ’09 M.A.R. at 203-432-2428 or peter. 

crumlish@yale.edu. Opportunities for engagement include sharing the 

names of people in your network at public service organizations that hire 

recent graduates, discussing professional advice with current students, or 

participating in a career development panel. You may also complete the 

Hall’s alumni engagement survey by scanning the QR code to the right. 

FOLLOW US 

@dwighthallatyale on Instagram, Facebook, and X. You may also share your 

interests by scanning the QR code to the right. 

Laura is now a political appointee with the Biden-Harris Administration in 

the U.S. Department of Labor. She is a Senior Counsel in the Office of the 

Solicitor, a job that allows her to work on a wide range of worker rights issues, 

such as misclassification, overtime protections, and child labor. 

Laura has been part of the Dwight Hall Board for thirteen years. Looking back, Laura sees her 

undergraduate experience with Dwight Hall as a critical introduction to the world of public 

service and social justice. The skills and community she developed through Dwight Hall have 

helped her pursue a career in the nonprofit and government sectors focused on immigrant and 

worker rights issues. 

Dwight Hall 2023 Year in Review 

Contributing Writers: Barbara Mola ’22, Emma Yanai ’25, Peter Crumlish ’09 M.A.R., Sevi Burget-Foster ’23 

Back Cover Art: Hannah Turner ’24 

Illustrations: istock 

Design: Jenny DuVander 

Printing: GHP on 100% post-consumer recycled paper 


Change Happens Here 

Dwight Hall at Yale 

67 High Street 

P.O. Box 209008 

New Haven, CT 06520 

Peter Crumlish ’09 m.a.r. 

Executive Director 

(203) 432-2428 

peter.crumlish@yale.edu 

dwighthall.org

Dwight Hall 2023 Year in Review

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