Graduate Affiliates 2011-12

Graduate Affiliate Bios:

Francesca Ammon is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program.  As an undergraduate, she studied civil engineering at Princeton, before working for five years in New York and London as a strategy consultant.  She then returned to school to embark upon an academic career.  At Yale, she has completed a Master of Environmental Design degree at the School of Architecture and is now pursuing her Ph.D. in the Graduate School in the areas of 20th century American urban history and the history of the built environment.   She is always happy to discuss any of the above fields.  In addition, she welcomes conversations with students who are interested in applying to graduate school in history or American Studies, who want to know more about management consulting, or who are considering making the move from the sciences/engineering into the humanities.

francesca.ammon@yale.edu



Eleonora Buonocore, born in Siena, Italy, is a third year Ph.D. student in the Italian Department, currently teaching ITAL 110.  She enjoys talking to students about Italian language and literature, and about theatre and film. She already holds an Italian Ph.D. in Medieval Philosophy, therefore she also encourages students who want to talk about philosophy or the middle ages in general to contact her. She has done research in the art of memory, on Dante, on Neoplatonism, Giordano Bruno, and contemporary Italian women novelists and poets.  Since she has worked for the Yale Summer School in Siena, she welcomes any student who wants to talk about the possibility of a study abroad period in Italy too!  In addition, Eleonora is currently hosting an official Italian Table at JE every Wednesday at lunchtime from 12 to 1. If you want to meet her and speak some Italian, you are more than welcome to join the table!

eleonora.buonocore@yale.edu



Miles Farmer, JE '07 and Law '12, would like to speak to students who are interested in environmental and energy issues, or to students who are considering attending law school or careers in the policy arena. Miles has experience working for a non-profit on state and local political advocacy, in New York City government, and on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Following law school, he has accepted a job at a large law firm where he will work on energy regulation, project finance, and environmental law issues posed by energy projects. He is interested in the broad policy problems surrounding climate change, as well as the nitty-gritty mechanics of energy project finance and regulation.

miles.farmer@yale.edu



Margaret Fox, JE '05, is a joint J.D./M.Div. student at the law and divinity schools.  She would enjoy meeting with students who have an interest in law, religion, and/or LGBT-related issues.  She would be happy to discuss career-related questions with students considering the legal profession, academia, or the ministry.  She would also like to talk with students who have an interest in organizing community service projects through the college.

margaret.fox@yale.edu



Ethan Heard is in his second year at Yale School of Drama, where he will be directing JULIUS CAESAR this spring.  As an undergraduate at Yale, Class of 2007, he majored in Theater Studies and sang with the Duke's Men and Whiffenpoofs.  Ethan is interested in all kinds of performance, but especially theater that explores the intersection of story, music and movement.  He would be happy to discuss anything related to the infamous "move to New York" and beginning a career in the arts.  www.ethanheard.com

ethan.heard@yale.edu



John Perez, a second year MBA student at School of Management (SOM), has an interest in speaking with students who would like to learn more about and discuss graduate business school, national security and defense, or career opportunities in the private sector.  John served as a US Army officer from 2005 to 2011, twice deploying to Iraq, and most recently served as an Assistant Professor of Military Science for the University of Connecticut Army ROTC Department.  John recently completed a Leadership Development Program internship at Johnson & Johnson and is likely to return full time following graduation.

john.perez@yale.edu



Robert Stretch is a second year Yale medical student from Sydney, Australia. He is interested in talking with students considering a career in medicine or studying abroad. Robert completed his undergraduate B.Sc (Adv) at the University of Sydney, majoring in immunobiology and biochemistry, and has a keen interest in track and crew.

robert.stretch@yale.edu



Sheb Swett, a 3L at the law school, looks forward to speaking with students interested in law school. He went straight to law school after graduating from Yale in 2009,but spent two years in between his freshman and sophomore years serving a Mormon mission in Italy. He is happy to discuss the decision of when to enroll in law school. His particular interest is in public law, but he glad to talk about the entire law school experience. In addition, he has lived overseas for five years and would enjoy discussing the value of international experiences with students.

sebastian.swett@yale.edu



Helen Vera is interested in talking with students who are considering careers in law or journalism.  Helen is currently a second-year student at the Law School.  A member of the JE class of 2006, Helen worked from 2006 to 2010 as a reporter-researcher at Vanity Fair magazine in New York, collaborating with writers and editors to fact-check feature stories on a variety of topics, ranging from politics to business to the film industry.  At Yale, Helen majored in English and spent a semester abroad with Yale-in-London.  She was a managing editor of the Yale Literary Magazine and a columnist for the Yale Daily News.  She also studied art history and worked at the Yale Center for British Art as both a student employee and a curatorial intern.  She has worked in other museums and galleries as well and is happy to chat with students about careers in the arts or about the arts in general.

helen.vera@yale.edu



Rebecca Vitale is a 2nd year medical student interested in chronic disease and global health. She's originally from Kentucky, and is always thrilled to chat about the South. She studied History of Science at Harvard with a minor in Public Health, and hopes to get an MPH during her time at Yale as well. She loves to travel, and has recently spent time in Morocco, Senegal, and India. She's happy to talk about basically anything, especially blues music, social justice, and the ongoing debate about which Thai restaurant is really best.

rebecca.vitale@yale.edu