JE students: if you would like to connect with someone here, reach out! Fellows would not have put forward this information had they not wanted to be contacted!
Stuart Allen, JE ’02, Lawyer, is interested in speaking with students who are considering careers in law or who are planning to attend law school. Stuart graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2006 and is currently a senior associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, DC where he specializes in intellectual property litigation and appellate litigation. Previously, he worked for a multi-national law firm in Los Angeles and clerked for judges on the federal trial and appellate courts. He has also worked at non-profit and civil rights organizations as well as a district attorney's office. While he does not live in New Haven, Stuart is happy to chat by phone with any perspective law students about their plans, law school, and actually practicing law. stuart.allen@aya.yale.edu
Jurgen Bank, an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist focusing on leadership development with corporate clients around the world, and a resident fellow in JE, is interested in discussing intercultural experiences over lunch or coffee breaks. He would like to talk about questions and insights related to situations where different cultures meet, such as travel experiences, observations on intercultural friendships and, of course, the experience of being immersed in or confronted with a different culture while living abroad or, if you originate from another culture, living here. He currently is developing a project to explore the ways in which national, ethnic, and local cultures mix with corporate cultures around the globe. Jurgen grew up in Germany, and himself immigrated to the United States in 1998. Jurgen.Bank@pdininthhouse.com
Gerhard Bowering, is Professor of Islamic Studies, specializing in the study of the Qur'an and its interpretation, Islamic religious history, and the contemporary world of Islam. Over lunch in JE, on either Tuesdays or Thursdays, he would like to share his experiences of study, research and travel in the Islamic world all across the globe from Morocco to Mindanao (in the Arab Middle East, North Africa, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Indonesia, as well as contacts with Muslim communities of China, Europe and America). No special language skills required, just an informal exchange of views and ideas. gerhard.bowering@yale.edu
Andrée Aelion Brooks, Journalist, Author and Lecturer, would like to talk to students about the emerging and changing field of news from her 30 years in news reporting (for 18 years she was a contributing columnist and writer for the New York Times), her current work researching, writing and lecturing on the untold aspects of the social history of the Jews, and her efforts to get more women into elective office and why. She was the founder, in 1994, of the Women's Campaign School at Yale, an independent campus organization under the auspices of the Law School that trains women of all backgrounds and ages in political campaign skills (Gabby Giffords was one of our graduates and board member). She would welcome meeting students for an informal chat late afternoon on a Thursday at JE, prior to the weekly Fellows Dinner. andreebrooks@hotmail.com
Susan Cahan, Associate Dean for the Arts in Yale College and a resident fellow in JE, would enjoy meeting with students who are interested in contemporary visual art, both art making and art history. Through her experiences working at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and as a curator for a large private art collection, she has had the opportunity to get to know many fascinating artists, including Andrea Fraser; Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Jim Hodges; Vik Muniz; Cathy Opie; Tim Rollins; Fred Tomaselli; Carrie Mae Weems; and others. She would be happy to talk with students pursuing studies or career paths in art, art history, and museum work. susan.cahan@yale.edu
Jay Emerson, Associate Professor of Statistics, would enjoy meeting students with interest in real-world data challenges, cooking, opera, or off–the–beaten–track world travel. Jay has done several data analysis projects receiving attention in the media. Most recently, he has exposed a new quirk in the scoring system used in international figure skating competitions. He is currently attempting to master Mutter Paneer (including making the paneer from raw milk). He is looking forward to seeing Der Ring des Nibelungen again. He grew up in Vermont, has seen a good bit of the US, and has traveled to China, Brazil, and parts of Europe. He speaks French poorly. http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay john.emerson@yale.edu
Karyl Evans. A Documentary Filmmaker, would be happy to talk with students about their interest in pursuing a career in the world of television and film production. She has won 5 Emmy Awards for her work over a 30–year period. She has specialized in producing, directing, and editing historical documentary films for museums and educational institutions and is currently working on the “History of the Yale School of Medicine” and the “History of the New Haven Green”. She has worked in all areas of the arts entertainment business from developing feature films in Los Angeles working with director Taylor Hackford, developing a children’s series with Shelley Duvall, to live college sports and a film review series in the San Diego market, to making commercial spots—currently producing all the marketing spots for Connecticut Public Television, to long form documentaries on a national, regional, and local level. (View film clips here) karyl@snet.net
Ayaska Fernando, JE ’08, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions, would like to speak with students who wonder about pursuing something quite different to their major area of study at Yale post graduation. He was a Mechanical Engineering (ABET) major while at Yale, spent his junior year summer on Wall Street at Bear Steans, and is now in his 3rd year at Yale Admissions. Students often wonder why they were admitted to Yale—Ayaska is happy to talk about admissions and the considerations that go into these decisions. You will definitely see him at IM Waterpolo or Badminton in case you want to introduce yourself before writing an email. ayaska.fernando@yale.edu
David Hafler, Professor of Neurology and Immunobiology and Chairman, Department of Neurology, loves to kayak in the Long Island Sound, go for runs, and to pontificate on how we should train the next cadre of physician scientists. He decided early in his career (college) to make the understanding of multiple sclerosis as a life passion, and during this adventure became a clinical neurologist, immunologist, and geneticist. After spending 28 years at Harvard, he recently moved to Yale with his wife Janet (see her blurb), a Medical Educator. While he is the Breakstone Professor Emeritus at Harvard, (he doesn’t look that old) he always sits on the Yale side at “The Game”. They have two wonderful children, Brian, a Princeton and Harvard Medical School MD/PhD graduate, is an ophthalmology resident at Yale and Jason is just completing his PhD in Genetics at Cambridge UK and is an associate partner at Atlas Ventures in Cambridge US. david.hafler@yale.edu
Janet Hafler, Assistant Dean for Educational Scholarship at the Yale Medical School is very interested in talking with students about careers in health care and in education. Over her career she has taught, advised students in the health care professions, and participated in medical school admissions. Having two sons and a husband, David Hafler who is the Chair of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine she has tried to balance her career while raising their two sons and she always enjoys conversations of how to balance work and family. She also loves to take walks, do yoga and cook. janet.hafler@yale.edu
Emily Horning, the Librarian for Classics, Religion and History, and Director of the Library’s Personal Librarian Program, would be happy to speak to students about alternative careers for majors in history or other humanities disciplines. By training she is a historian of early modern Europe; her work in graduate school concerned the transition from manuscript to print culture in France and England. Emily is also the curator of the Yale Library’s Curtis Mountaineering Collection, and while not strictly speaking a mountaineer, she is an enthusiastic hiker, having climbed in North, Central and South America, Europe, the Arctic, southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand. She hails from southern California, and would be happy to commiserate about New England weather. emily.horning@yale.edu
K. David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese, has a special interest in speaking with students who would like to know more about Brazil, Portugal, the Lusophone world and literature in Portuguese. He has worked closely with the Sao Paulo concrete poets, studied with Portuguese poet Jorge de Sena. In addition to Brazil and Portugal, he has had the opportunity to do research and travel in Goa, Sri Lanka, Malacca & Macau. His work includes cultural contacts, Creole music and verse as well as major writers such as Pessoa, Camoes, Machado de Assis, and the Brazilian modernists. k.jackson@yale.edu
Jennifer Julier, JE ’77 and an Assistant Director for Yale College Classes at the Association for Yale Alumni, working on reunion planning for Yale College classes, would be happy to talk to any student interested in a career in alumni relations or eager to explore how to stay connected to Yale after—gasp!—graduation. Also, she has a 1911 Steinway B at her home in Hamden and welcomes serious pianists in J.E. to contact her about arranging occasional practice times. She earned a Masters from Columbia in Library Science and worked in the field of rare books and manuscripts, later broadening her activities to free–lance editing, writing and genealogical research. For twelve years she was the volunteer chairman coordinating alumni interviews of local students applying to Yale. Jennifer.julier@yale.edu
Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Senior Lecturer in History of Science and Medicine, is happy to speak with students about NASA and the space program, and what it was like to be the first woman to hold the Charles Lindbergh Chair at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. She can talk about how she wrote a science column for the Los Angles Times and how in writing a book about women in space she interviewed more than 40 astronauts in the US and Russia, and in writing a history of medical imaging interviewed 3 men who would later win Nobel Prizes. Students might want to talk about the discovery of X–rays, how the ability to peer into the human body gradually changed our ideas about privacy, and disease. bettyann.kevles@yale.edu
Penelope Laurans, master of JE and special assistant to the President, has an interest in speaking with students who would like to know more about modern poets and modern poetry. At various points in her life she has had the opportunity to know well Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Octavio Paz, and many other poets and writers, and she knows a great deal about T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Flannery O’Connor and John Berryman, who were close friends of her late husband, the poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald. Her field is the history of English prosody but she has written and published on modern poets and their work. She also would be glad to talk with students about University administration. penelope.laurans@yale.edu
Robert Lyons, Professor of Medicine at UConn and Clinical Associate Professor at Yale.is interested in talking with students about medicine, Japanese Prints and Paintings, and/or Rudyard Kipling! He is His interests are in clinical Infectious Disease, particularly HIV/AIDS and tick borne diseases. He collects Japanese prints and paintings, some of which have been exhibited at JE, the Asia Society in NYC, and the Yale Art Gallery. His print collection includes a number of 18th century actor prints as well as many shin hanga prints from the first half of the 20th century; among the paintings are several by Zen artists, including one by Hakuin. Bob also has a long standing interest in Rudyard Kipling, is a member of The Kipling Society, and has an extensive collection of Kipling first editions and early works. He spoke recently to the Beaumont Medical Club at Yale about Kipling and his ambivalent attitude toward doctors. RLyons@stfranciscare.org
Charles “Andy” Morgan, is a JE Fellow and Yale Medical Faculty member who has a special interest in speaking with students who would like to know more about detecting deception and truthfulness in people. In his work with US and foreign government agencies, Dr. Morgan groups has published numerous scientific papers in which he has studied on how one can detect truth from falsehoods (false claims and denials) even when working in cross–cultural environments and through translators. The focus of his work as been on forensic statement analysis as a means to detecting truth from falsehoods. charles.morgan@yale.edu
Douglas Nygren, a child, adolescent, and family therapist at the Clifford Beers Clinic in New Haven, and a former JE writing tutor, would enjoy meeting with students to discuss his work or his passion for speaking German, playing the piano and making photos, either over lunch or supper. He treats children who have been abused, are depressed, impulsive, and/or have behavioral troubles. He particularly likes working with children who are autistic. dnygr@cshore.com
Elaine Piraino–Holevoet, JE’75 and parent of Dan JE’07, has a special interest in speaking with students who would like to find out more about life in the City beyond Yale, particularly those who share her interest in environmental activism. She has lived in downtown New Haven since graduation and works with her husband in their graphic design firm — PIROET. For years an active volunteer in the community, she has also maintained strong ties to Yale as a volunteer on the Yale Alumni Schools Committee and as a vice president of the Yale Club of New Haven. You can read more at her blog: ontheroadtogreenness. Elaine would gladly meet for lunch, most any day. Elaine@piroet.com
David T. Totman ’61, is a lawyer who would be interested in sharing his experiences and thoughts concerning careers in the law—domestic and/or international. He says that, “The whole scene has changed significantly since I started out and students need to be current in their decision making.” dttotman@yahoo.com
James C. Tsai, Professor and Chair/Chief of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Yale School of Medicine and Yale–New Haven Hospital, has a special interest in speaking with and mentoring students who would like to know more about careers in medicine and scientific research. Tsai has and MDand an MBA and has also pursued medical training abroad and can provide a first–hand perspective on this type of educational experience. He has authored a wide range of scientific articles, abstracts, and books including the recently published “Oxford American Handbook of Ophthalmology.” Tsai has also served on a variety of governmental scientific panels at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). james.tsai@yale.edu
Karen von Kunes, Senior Lector in Slavic Languages, would be glad to converse over lunch on any topic—languages, cultures, real estate, politics, immigration, or cars, jobs, fashion, diseases, personal problems and everyday life in French, Russian, Czech, or Slovak, the languages in which she is fluent. In addition to teaching Czech language and courses on Milan Kundera’s novels and Milos Forman’s films she is interested in creative writing, screenwriting, and short stories and would be glad also to talk about these. karen.vonkunes@yale.edu
Martin Wand M.D., Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Connecticut and Chair, American Board of Ophthalmology, has a special interest in speaking with JE students contemplating medicine as a future career who have questions regarding the whole process, from application to ultimately which area of medicine, and whether in private practice, industry, academic, or public service, He is in full time private practice of glaucoma (an ophthalmology sub–specialty) in Farmington CT but have been an active participant in academic medicine and in national health organizations. He also would be glad to arrange for a visit to his office to see first hand what the practice of ophthalmology is like. martin.wand@comcast.net
Harry Wexler, a consultant with many years of experience in city planning and housing would be happy to talk with students who have an interest in these areas. Wexler brings a unique perspective to urban studies through his training as a lawyer and an urban planner. He served on the faculty of Yale’s Department of City Planning and as executive director and legal counsel to two nonprofit housing development corporations. During his more than 30 years as a consultant his clients have included local and national foundations, foundation intermediaries, government agencies, and community development corporations. He directed studies of urban housing policy for the National Science Foundation in the 1970s and for the Pew Charitable Trusts in the 1990s. He has evaluated housing and neighborhood revitalization programs for the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Surdna Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. He has published several articles about housing and city planning, including one of the first evaluations of the HOPE VI public housing program, and was principal investigator and co-author of the book Housing and Local Government (1975). wexler@hwfco.com
