Fellows of Jonathan Edwards
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Janna WagnerBio:Janna Wagner is a ‘95 graduate of Yale (JE). She taught in the Bronx and graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education before returning to New Haven to co-found All Our Kin, a Connecticut non-profit devoted to expanding access to high-quality early education for all children. She also co-teaches an Ed Studies course called “Child Care, Society and Social Policy.” When not running AOK, Janna volunteers on non-profit boards including “The Group with No Name”, a social, civic organization that she and her friends founded to make New Haven a more fun place to live and to turn residents into citizens, and U.S. Grant, a summer program for New Haven students run by Yalies. She is excited to meet with students who want to discuss social entrepreneurship, founding a non-profit, teaching, educational equity, and New Haven. Contact Janna at janna@allourkin.org |
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Scott Wallace-JuedesBio:Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid |
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Wendell Wallace-JuedesBio:Dr. Wallace-Juedes was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. He graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana. After graduating he conducted research developing industrial paints. Then became a certified educator earning a Master’s in Curriculum, Instruction & Technology. Dr. Wallace-Juedes then went on to earn his DPM degree to become a reconstructive foot and ankle surgeon. When his husband was offered the position of Director of Financial Aid at Yale he decided to enter the world of higher ed, educating high school students about the accessibility of Yale. |
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Paul WalshBio:Paul Walsh is Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism in Yale’s School of Drama. He has worked in theaters across the country including nine years as senior dramaturg at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater. His translations of plays by Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg have been produced professionally in numerous theaters including Yale Rep. Walsh was artistic director of the New Harmony Project, a new play development program in southern Indiana, from 2006 to 2012 and has taught at Southern Methodist University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. paul.walsh@yale.edu |
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John Harley WarnerBio:John Harley Warner is an historian of medicine, public health, and science. His work focuses on health and healing cultures in America from the late-eighteenth century through the present, with particular attention to professional identity, the visual cultures of medicine, and transnational comparison. At Yale he is Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor of History and of American Studies, and Chair of the History of Medicine department at the Yale Medical School. He teaches undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, and has been Director of Undergraduate Studies for the major in HSHM (History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health). Undergraduate courses include “Media and Medicine in Modern America.” john.warner@yale.edu |
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Barbara WattsBio:Associate Director of Admissions at School of Medicine |
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Jonathan Weinberg, Ph. D.Bio:Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D. (Yale College BA, 1978) is a painter, art historian and curator. He is Curator of The Maurice Sendak Foundation. He has taught in Yale's History of Art Department and in its Art School for an aggregate of over twenty years. He is the author of several books including Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront and Ambition and Love in American Art. His writings have appeared in Art in America, Art Forum, The Yale Journal of Criticism and in numerous museum catalogs. In 2019 he was the lead curator of the award winning touring exhibition, Art After Stonewall 1969-89. He is the curator of the 2023-24 touring exhibition, Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak. He was the recipient of many fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship and he was the artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Center in 2002-3. In 2022 an exhibition of his GENESIS window paintings and prints was on view at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven. |
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Zach WendlingBio:Zach Wendling is the Research Director for the 2026 Environmental Performance Index at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, where he did his post-doctoral training. Before returning to Yale, he was a Senior Research Associate at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and the project manager for the Global Commons Stewardship Index at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, with major fields in policy analysis and environmental policy. Before academia, he was an environmental scientist specializing in surface water ecosystem restoration. In his free time, he enjoys opera, museums, and meeting new dogs. He’s happy to chat with students, and you can find him in Kroon Hall, at Fellows’ dinners, or email him at zach.wendling@yale.edu. |
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Ted WhittenBio:Ted Whitten is an architect and writer based in New Haven and an alumnus of the School of Architecture. He is very happy to meet students to talk about careers in creative fields—or anything else! |
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David WolfsohnBio:David M. Wolfsohn, MD, is an assistant clinical professor at Yale School of Medicine. He serves as the director of Innovation and an International Medicine leader for the Division of Digestive Diseases. He has a strong interest in luminal disorders, Barrett’s esophagus, colon cancer, and preventative health as it relates to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Dr. Wolfsohn joined the Yale faculty after spending 27 years caring for patients in private practice with Connecticut Gastroenterology Consultants, where he served on the executive committee of the group for more than 20 years. Dr. Wolfsohn serves on the science advisory board and board of directors of pHlip, Inc., a biotechnology company that studies novel therapies to diagnose and treat inflammatory and neoplastic conditions, which has provided him with exciting opportunities for research. He is additionally involved in conducting research with a group of Yale neurologists on the role of the gut microbiome and neuroinflammatory conditions. Dr. Wolfsohn graduated from Brown University magna cum laude and as a member of the Sigma Xi honor society. He received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College and completed his residency in internal medicine at Cornell-New York Hospital. He completed his fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California, San Diego, which included training in advanced procedures. His interests include skiing, mountaineering, hiking, kayaking, playing the guitar, and traveling with his family. |