Dear Dean Alpern and Members of the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Administration, Inspired by the brave examples of NextYale, other students at Yale, and campuses across the country, we, students of color and partners in solidarity, write to demand sustainable reforms to foster a YSM in which all identities are valued. We respect President…
A Letter of Support to Black Students at Yale from Black Alumni
Alumni can sign here Dear Black Students of Yale, As members of Yale University’s Black alumni community, we write to express our support and solidarity with you and other students of color at Yale as you raise your voices in protest, and mount a call to action by the Yale administration in order to address…
Graduate Student Letter of Solidarity
View the signatures here Dear Members of the Yale Community, In light of recent events the last week, we have seen Yale undergraduates come together to express their anger, frustration, and sadness over the unsafe environment that Yale has created for students of color. These protests are not only about the events of the last…
Letter to President Salovey: A Better Ivy League
Dear President Salovey, We, as the Yale delegation for the Latinx Ivy League Conference, write to inform you of our concerns regarding our experiences at Brown University earlier today. We acknowledge that you are a partner in creating a cultural shift at Yale, and being an agent of change in improving the experiences of students…
The Unwinnable Game
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon “If truth, reason and conclusive argument, compounded with admirable temper and perfect candour, might be supposed to have an effect on the minds of man, we should think this work would have put an end to agitation on the subject [of slavery].” – “Memoir on Slavery” by William Harper (1853) One week ago, I…