A private screening and discussion of Kumina Queen with filmmaker Nyasha Laing (Yale Women Council). Nyasha, who returned to filmmaking as a healing journey while her mother was dying from ALS, traveled into the heart of the Jamaican countryside to document kumina, a vibrant, women-centered African ancestral practice. She shares reflections and prompts around storytelling as a healing tool enabling connections with our ancestors and ourselves.

Nyasha Laing is a documentarian, impact producer, writer and lawyer. Nyasha’s independent storytelling explores freedom, inspiration, and inheritance. It has been featured in and on the Pan-African Film Festival, Indie Memphis, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, WOMEX, Yes Magazine, BBC World Service and the Art Museum of the Americas. 

Join a community of YaleWomen writers on Zoom to share successes and challenges, exchange tips on the craft and business of writing, and remind ourselves that all of our stories matter. All writers are welcome, regardless of genre, medium, or level of experience.

Second and fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 pm EST/EDT.

You'll receive an email with the login info after you RSVP. Hope to "see" you on Zoom!

Join other members of the YaleWomen alum community for unstructured chats via Zoom as we find new ways to connect!

Every Wednesday at 7:30 pm EST/EDT

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After watching a live reading with professional actors of the new short film, Grief: A Comedy, we’ll delve into some of the ways we do – and don’t – communicate around grief and loss. We’ll discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of the film’s conversations and then we’ll work on building our own skills with a communication expert

Kathleen Wallace is an actress, writer, producer, and facilitator whose work spans both the entertainment and corporate worlds. Her short film GRIEF: A COMEDY was recently selected for the Stowe Story Labs - Sidewalk Narrative Lab. Notable work includes her series SETTLING UP, which is available on Amazon, and her feminist comedy series THE EVAGELISTS, about evangelists for feminism, which was a finalist in the Raindance Pilot Competition and won a Made In NY Women’s Fund grant. She has facilitated classes and conversations for organizations like the Yale Alumni Association, World50, and Google. Kathleenwallace.com.

Join other members of the YaleWomen alum community for unstructured chats via Zoom as we find new ways to connect!

Every Wednesday at 7:30 pm EST/EDT

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YaleWomen & WLI Present: Women’s Leadership & Career Journeys

YaleWomen alums are invited to attend our Inaugural Event celebrating the partnership between Yale Women and Yale Women's Leadership Initiative (WLI) and the kickoff of the new Yale WLI x YW mentorship program. Yale WLI is Yale’s undergraduate student organization dedicated to women leadership at Yale and beyond.

When:  Sunday, October 8, 2023, 11 am to 1 pm.

What:   An in-person event on the Yale campus (during Family Weekend) celebrating the partnership between YaleWomen and Yale WLI and the new YWLIxYW mentorship initiative.

Who:  YaleWomen alums & their guests as well as YWLI students & their families visiting during Family Weekend.  We will also be joined by some mentors from our first cohort of YaleWomen alum mentors in the YWLI x YW Mentorship Initiative

Program:  Talks by our Keynote Speaker and WLI Co-Presidents and plenty of time afterwards to chat with students and other YW alums & guests over coffee/tea and pastries.

Keynote Speaker:   Dr. Susan Pepin (Yale College ‘87) on “Women’s Leadership & Career Journeys.”  [Dr. Pepin is a nationally recognized surgeon, clinician, medical educator and researcher and holds MD & MPH degrees.  She is also a Mentor in our first cohort of YaleWomen alum mentors in the YWLI x YW Mentorship Initiative.  

Location:  Will be provided to all who RSVP

Join a community of YaleWomen writers on Zoom to share successes and challenges, exchange tips on the craft and business of writing, and remind ourselves that all of our stories matter. All writers are welcome, regardless of genre, medium, or level of experience.

Second and fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 pm EST/EDT.

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What does it mean to find your voice? How do you respond when people tell you to “write what you know?”

Dana Rubin, ’81 SY, has been exploring these questions for many years as a journalist and non-fiction writer. Her latest project — she calls it “an obsession” — is the research and recovery of overlooked women’s speeches from history. 

Dana will be sharing what she’s uncovered about the secret history of American women’s speech, and what drew her into an ongoing, multi-year project to excavate overlooked speeches by women in history, by the thousands, and to write about her discoveries. 

She’s just published a new anthology of American women’s speeches, Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women. And she also created a companion resource, the Speaking While Female Speech Bank, a free archive with thousands of speeches by women from around the world and across time. 

She’ll share what she’s learned about the motivation not just to write what we know, but to speak out too. 

This will be a talk + discussion. Dana will share her insights about her work as a professional writer and what she’s learned from her foray into the publishing world — followed by an open discussion.

Dana Rubin is a consultant, speechwriter, and speaker who’s on a mission to encourage more women to put their views into the public square. She has just published a women’s speech anthology, "Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women,” which tells the story of America through the voices of women, from 1637-2021. She also created a free companion resource, the Speaking While Female Speech Bank, to broaden our understanding of the role of women orators in history. It’s the world’s largest online archive of women’s speeches from around the world and across time, free for anyone to use.  Dana leads workshops that support women to be thought leaders, subject matter experts, brand ambassadors, and role models for future generations.

Join a community of YaleWomen writers on Zoom to share successes and challenges, exchange tips on the craft and business of writing, and remind ourselves that all of our stories matter. All writers are welcome, regardless of genre, medium, or level of experience.

Second and fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 pm EST/EDT.

You'll receive an email with the login info after you RSVP. Hope to "see" you on Zoom!

Join a community of YaleWomen writers on Zoom to share successes and challenges, exchange tips on the craft and business of writing, and remind ourselves that all of our stories matter. All writers are welcome, regardless of genre, medium, or level of experience.

Second and fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 pm EST/EDT.

You'll receive an email with the login info after you RSVP. Hope to "see" you on Zoom!