Welcome to the Trumbull College Master’s online office!

Office hours: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Mondays through Fridays
(closed for lunch from noon to 1:00 pm)

Who’s Who

At the head of the college is the Master. In her role as chief administrative officer, she sets the college’s intellectual and cultural tone, just as she is responsible for students’ physical safety and well-being. Together with the Associate Master, she oversees and cultivates the college’s social life, hosting study breaks, Master’s Teas, trips, and other events. The Master and Associate Master live in the college, in the Master’s house, where many events are coordinated.

The Resident Fellows are Trumbull College faculty who live in college with their families, and are integral members of the community.

The Operations Manager ensures the smooth functioning of the college. In addition to coordinating its events and maintaining its facilities, the OM oversees the college’s finances, serves as a liaison between the college and the business office, and supervises special projects.

Supporting the master is the Master’s Office Senior Administrative Assistant, who handles the day-to-day business in the Master’s Office. While coordinating with the staff in staging the college’s events, the Senior AA works especially closely with students and the TCC in support of their many activities.

The Master’s Aides staff the front desk of the Master’s Office and help students and visitors with the million questions they bring to the office. The aides can help with scheduling a room, getting keys, signing out a DVD or board game, or registering a party.

Master

Dr. Janet Henrich (janet.henrich@yale.edu) is the Master of Trumbull College and a faculty member in the Department of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. Nationally prominent in developing policies and programs to benefit women’s health, she is equal parts scholar, teacher, and clinician. Through her collaborations with the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies and professional organizations, she has helped define medical curricula and academic programs in women’s health and has influenced health care policy and funding in this area. Master Henrich is equally active in Yale College, where she co-directs a very popular undergraduate course on women’s health that is one of the first of its kind in the country. In Trumbull, she takes great joy in interacting with students around their scholarly, artistic and personal interests, and assisting them in realizing their goals.

Associate Master

Prof. Victor Henrich (victor.henrich@yale.edu) is the Associate Master of Trumbull and a faculty member in the Departments of Applied Physics and Physics. His position places him at the center of the social and academic life of the college. Whether taking a van full of students to La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera or posing an illuminating question to a senior presenting his or her research to the Mellon Forum, Professor Henrich brings a rare combination of intellectual rigor and merriment to all of his activities. As a physicist, he is known for research on the properties of solid surfaces, research that spans basic and applied science. A popular and effective teacher, he delights in challenging students to think creatively, even about seemingly straightforward issues.

Resident Fellows

Jonathan Wyrtzen (jonathan.wyrtzen@yale.edu) is an assistant professor of Sociology and an affiliated faculty member with the Jackson Institute and the Councils of Middle East and African Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on North African society and politics, particularly the areas of state formation, colonialism and empire, ethnicity and nationalism, and Islamic social movements. Jonathan lives in the college with his wife, Leslie Wyrtzen, who teaches English as a Second Language, and their two daughters, Leila and Nora (and their cat, Sami).

Operations Manager

Teri Muro comes over from JE as Trumbull’s part-time Operations Manager. Teri has worked for the University for 16 years, all in JE. She looks forward to meeting and assisting student Trumbullians. Between offices and after hours, Teri is on her way to becoming a veterinarian by assimilation… via the adventures of her daughter currently in vet school. She looks forward to being a Bull as well as a Spider!

Master’s Senior Administrative Assistant

Debbie Rueb (debbie.rueb@yale.edu) is the Master’s Senior Administrative Assistant. Debbie has worked in the in the Master’s office since November 1998. She lives in Madison with her husband, Bill, and commutes to and from work on the Shore Line East train. Besides spending the work week in Trumbull, she enjoys reading (just got a Kindle), movies, gardening, hiking and travel. Oh, and cooking too — when she has time.

Master’s Aides

Ruben Gaytan Lemus TC ’12
Agustin Paniagua TC ’12
Molly Patterson TC ’13
Michael Singleton TC ’12
Mary Weng TC ’13
Tori Westerhoff TC ’13
Omar Dairanieh TC ’13
Linda Sewnarine TC ’13

Fellows’ Aide

Lindsey Mischner TC ’13
lindsey.mischner@yale.edu

Nick Chapel Aide

Rachel London TC ’12
rachel.london@yale.edu

Library Aides

Samantha Dixon TC ’12
samantha.dixon@yale.edu

Patrick Pitoniak TC ’12
patrick.pitoniak@yale.edu

Buttery Managers

TrumButt’s hours are Sunday through Thursday, 10PM to 1AM.

Katherine Eshel TC ’13
katherine.eshel@yale.edu
Kat Eshel is a proud member of Trumbull ’13 from Texas by way of France and Hong Kong. An Environmental Studies major, hobbies include Trumbull, sailing (YCYC ’14!), and squashing other colleges in various IMs. Because Trumbull is the best. Truly.

Art Studio Aide

Katerina Karatzia ’14
katerina.karatzia@yale.edu

Gym Aide

Syed Faisal Hussaini TC ’13
syed.hussaini@yale.edu

Music Practice Room Aide

Will Moritz TC ’12
will.moritz@yale.edu
Will Moritz plays guitar, sleeps in a bed, and eats in the Trumbull dining hall. He is a psychology major who likes to surf. He may or may not have a beard at the moment. He works tirelessly for his classes, but also enjoys socializing with friends. But above all else, he makes sure that the music room stays clean and tidy. If you have any requests or questions about the Trumbull sub-basement music room, send him an email.

Student Kitchen Aides

Amy Napleton TC ’14
amy.napleton@yale.edu

Emma Hills TC ’14
emma.hills@yale.edu

Sabrina Cook TC ’13
sabrina.cook@yale.edu

Pottery Studio Aide

Kristi Oki TC ’14
kristi.oki@yale.edu

Webmaster

Sabina Mehmedovic TC ’12
sabina.mehmedovic@yale.edu

I am a Sociology major and webdesigner. Also, five feet tall and portable. If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions about the website, please do not hesitate to contact me! It’s what I’m here for.

Trumbull fellowships

In addition to the many funding resources available to students throughout the university, a small number of fellowships and awards is administered through Trumbull College. To learn more about them, use the links at the left. Application to these fellowships, unless otherwise specified, is directly submitted to the Master’s Office. Some of these awards require participation in the Mellon Forum, where students in their senior year present their work to a group of their peers, an exhibition in the Trumbull Art Gallery, or a performance in the Nick Chapel Theater in Trumbull.

Creative and Performing Arts Award (previously Sudler Award)

Submission deadline: January 24, 12 noon

US Citizenship: Not Required
Administered by the Council of Masters, the Creative and Performing Arts Awards support on-campus dramatic, musical, dance, video or film productions, literary publications, and exhibitions in each residential college. These projects are supported by the Sudler Fund, the Welch Art Fund, and the Bates Fund. Ideally, productions should be held within the residential colleges; if that is not possible, productions must take place on campus.

The Council of Masters has created an online application process for the Creative and Performing Arts (CPA) Awards in the residential colleges.

More information about the CPA Award can be found at http://creativeandperformingarts.commons.yale.edu/.

Mellon Senior Forum

All forms associated with TC Mellon Forum applications are available at
http://tcforms.commons.yale.edu/

The Trumbull College Mellon Forum provides seniors who are doing senior projects or writing senior essays with opportunities to share their work with each other in a relaxed and congenial setting.

Fall 2011 Invitation

Dear Trumbull Seniors,

I would like to invite you to the introductory meeting of the Forum, which will be held next Monday, September 19, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Fellows’ Lounge (entryway K, 2nd floor). After dessert and coffee, you will have a chance to learn about the Mellon Forum.

The Forum will meet in the Master’s house for a catered dinner approximately once a month on Monday evenings, starting at 6:00, throughout the school year (see the Fall schedule below). After dinner, three seniors will present their projects in fifteen-minute talks, and there is typically a lively question-and-answer period after each presentation.

Past participants have expressed that they greatly enjoyed the opportunity to learn about the academic interests of their fellow seniors in an intimate social setting. Interested seniors are invited to apply for a place in the Mellon Forum by filling out and submitting the form that will be available at the introductory meeting next Monday and afterwards at the Master’s office. Those students accepted into the program are expected to attend all its meetings. Next Monday at the introductory, we will discuss in more detail how the forum will be organized this year, and I can answer any questions you might have.

If you would like to attend, please e-mail tcadmin@yale.edu. Hoping to see you on the 19th.

Jonathan Wyrtzen
Mellon Coordinator
Resident Fellow, Trumbull College
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Richter Summer Fellowship

Award Amount: Maximum $1,000
Submission deadline: March, 23, 12 noon.

US Citizenship: Not Required
Richter Summer Fellowship is an award for the independent study and research, not for mere travel, work or enrollment in a school. An internship is a valid use only if the primary component is study or research, being part of a research team is a valid use.

Items required: completed application, one-page proposal detailing your research project, and a copy of your registration coversheet from the Student Grant Data Base. Hand in all items required to the Trumbull Master’s Office. Student must also sign and hand in the Assumption of Risk Waiver Form for any international travel. International students make sure your paperwork is completed through Daisy Cardona in the Tax Dept. at 432-5530 so that your check is not delayed.

Students who are awarded fellowships will be expected to submit a brief written report to the Council of Master’s Office at the beginning of the Fall term.

Class of 1955 Summer Fellowship

Award Amount: Maximum $5,000
Submission deadline: XXXX
US Citizenship: Not Required

The Yale Class of 1955 is offering a limited number of travel fellowships for the summer research, in amounts of up to $5000 each, to Trumbull College juniors. The purpose of the Fellowship is to provide you with an opportunity to pursue an independent project or activity away from New Haven, in a foreign country or within the United States, which might not otherwise be possible. Awards are reported to the IRS as taxable income. Awardees must disclose the amount of any other funding supporting the proposed project. Recipients must submit written summary reports explaining the use of their Fellowship to the Trumbull Master’s Office.

Trumbull Fellows

Fellows are distinguished members of the faculty and community who are affiliated with Trumbull College and contribute to the academic, cultured and social functioning of the college.

Emeriti Fellows

Harry Adams
Former Master
Divinity School

Richard Barker
Electrical Engineering

William Brainard
Economics

Harold Conn, M.D.
Internal Medicine

Frank Firk
Physics

Howard Garey
French & Romance Philology

Willard Hartman
Biology & Zoology

Walter Hierholzer, M.D.
Tropical Medicine

James Jekel
MEPH

Thomas Lentz, M.D.
Cell Biology

Lowell S. Levin
Public Health

Howard Levitin, M.D.
Internal Medicine

Ramsay MacMullen
Classics & History

Abraham Malherbe
New Testament Criticism

Ruth Marcus
Philosophy

John Middleton
Anthropology & Rel. Studies

Peter B. Moore
Chemistry

Kevin O’Connor
Neurology

John Schowalter, M.D.
Child Study Center

Charles Sommerfield
Physics

Alan Trachtenberg
English & American Studies

Alexander Welsh
English

Fellows

Manette Adams
Former Associate Master

Rolena Adorno
Spanish & Portuguese

Sidney Altman
Biology

Timothy J. Barringer
History of Art

Bernard Bate
Anthropology

Kathryn Bell
Center for International Experience

Rev. Robert Beloin
St. Thomas More

Gaboury Benoit
Forestry & Environmental Studies

Graeme D. Berlyn
Forest Management

Jasmina Besirevic
Dean, Trumbull College

Ruth Blake
Geology & Geophysics

Daniel Botsman
History

Susan Brady
Beinecke Library

Janice Carlisle
English

Cathleen Chaffee
Yale Art Gallery

Lili Chookasian
School of Music

Emily Coates
World Performance Program

Christina Coffin
University Press

Adela Yarbro Collins
Divinity School

John J. Collins
Divinity School

James P. Comer, M.D.
Child Study Center

C. Yvonne Cooke
Former Associate Master

Kendall Crilly
Librarian
Project Design & Restoration

Laura Cruickshank
University Planning

Patricia Dallai
Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty

Michel Devoret
Applied Physics

Eileen Donahue
Development

Thomas P. Duffy, M.D.
Int. Medicine-Hematology

Ronald Dworkin
Former Master

Kai T. Erikson
Former Master
Sociology and American Studies

John Faragher
History

Eugene Fidell
Law School

Pamela Firk
Instructor of Yoga

Rosemarie Fisher
Internal Medicine

Paul Fleury
Applied Physics

Robert Fogelin
Former Master

Kirk Freudenburg
Classics

Alexander Garvin
Architecture

Aaron Gerow
Film Studies

Philip Gorski
Sociology

Philip Greene
Coordinator, Provost’s Office

Linda Greenhouse
Journalism/ Law School

Nora Groce
Epidemiology & Public Health

John W. Harris
Physics

Janet Henrich
Master, Trumbull College

Victor Henrich
Associate Master, Trumbull College

Leo J. Hickey
Geology & Geophysics

Gregory Huber
Institute for Social & Policy Studies

Susan Hyde
Political Science

Nancy Johnson
Cell Biology Administration

William Jorgensen
Chemistry

David Katzman
Investments Office

Elizabeth Kinsley
Undergraduate Admissions

Joan Kneeland
Asst. Director for Education, AYA

Christina Kraus
Classics

Ann Kuhlman
International Students & Scholars

Stephen Latham
Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Pauline LeVen
Classics

Ellen Lewis
Marketing & Communications Development

George Lord
Former Master

Daniel Lovins
Hebraica Team Catalog Leader, SML

Darcy Lowell, M.D.
Pediatrics
Child Study Center

Mary Lui
History and American Studies

Tso-Ping Ma
Electrical Engineering

Colleen Manassa
Near Eastern Literature

Adam Marcus
Mathematics

Grigorii Margulis
Mathematics

William Massa
Manuscripts & Archives

Thomas Masse
Associate Provost for the Arts

Enrique Mayer
Anthropology

Gregory McCarthy
Psychology

Patrick McCreless
Music Theory

Konstantinos Meghir
Economics

Jay Meizlish, M.D.
Internal Medicine

David Mills
Assoc. Director, British Art Center

Homer A. Neal
Physics

Herbert Newman
Architecture

Hiroyo Nishimura
East Asian Lang. & Lit.

Paul North
Germanic Lang/Lit

Michael O’Brien, M.D.
Surgery, Yale School of Medicine

Kenneth Panko
Instructional Computing

Samuel Payne
Mathematics

Jordan Peccia
Chemical Engineering

James Perlotto, M.D.
Chief, Student Medicine
Yale Health

John Persing, M.D.
Professor & Chief of Surgery
Yale School of Medicine

Thomas Pogge
Political Science & Philosophy

Kevin Poole
Spanish & Portuguese

Matthew Regan
Academic Technology Group, ITS

Kevin Repp
Beinecke Rare Book Library

Richard Richie
Curator SE Asian Collection, SML

Cesar Rodriguez
Curator, Latin American Collection, SML

Naomi Rogers
History of Medicine

Philip Rubin
Otolaryngology
Haskins Labs

Joanne Rudof
Holocaust Video Archives, SML

Larry Samuelson
Economics

Lamin Sanneh
Divinity & History

Eric Sargis
Anthropology

Charles Schmuttenmaer
Chemistry

David Silverstone, M.D.
Ophthalmologist

Jan Simpson
Writing Tutor

Witold Skiba
Physics

Martha Smalley
Special Collections Librarian
Divinity School Library

Scott Strobel
Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Dajin Sun
Asst. Head Cataloging, SML

Lynn Tanoue, M.D.
Pulmonary/Critical Care

Robert Touloukian, M.D.
Pediatric Medicine

Lillian Tseng
History of Art

Aleh Tsyvinski
Economics

Paul E. Turner
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Lidia Uziel
Research & Collection

Noël Valis
Spanish & Portuguese

Allan Wagner
Psychology

John Wa’Njogu
African Studies

Jonathan Wyrtzen
Sociology

Raffaella Zanuttini
Linguistics

David Demres
Woodbridge Fellow

Grace Fisher
Woodbridge Fellow

Kevin Glick
Digital Information Systems

George Harris
Woodbridge Fellow

Kimberly Hieftje
Internal Medicine

Alexander Kontorovich
Mathematics

Sara Shneiderman
Anthropology

Rebecca Vollmer
Major Gifts

Associate Fellows

Peter MacKeith
Administration

Jessica Sager
College Seminar

Tom Ashbrook
Correspondent, National Public Radio

Elizabeth Ballantine
EBA Associates

Cynthia Brill
Brill Journalism Enterprises

Bill Brown
Graphic Design

Pang-Mei Chang
Writer

Martin Cobern
AYA Board of Governors

Cecile Cohen
World Language Center
77 Broadway

Susan Crown
Yale Corporation
Henry Crown & Co.

Edgar Cullman, Jr.
General Cigar Corporation

Morris Dillard, MD
Primary Care Center

Katherine Edersheim
AYA Board of Governors

Neal R. Feigenson
Law School
Quinnipiac College

Deborah Fennebresque
Design Consultant

Raymond Foery
Quinnipiac College

Mimi Gardner Gates
Yale Corporation

Thomas R. Gottshall
Attorney

Andrew Graham, MD
Surgery

Edward J. Greenberg
AYA Board of Governors
Bear Stearns and Co. Inc.

Mark E. Greenwold
AYA Board of Governors
Nat’l Assc. Of Atty. Gens.

Steve Gurney
Class of ‘55

James Hackett
Custodial Services

Hon. Linda B. Johnson
Commissioner

Justice Joette Katz
CT State Supreme Court

Joshua Kendall
Author

Andrew Klaber
Orphans Against AIDS

Richard Klausner
Case Institute

Harvey Koizim
Banker

Seigfried Kra, M.D.
Medicine

Margaret Lee
Administration

Gilbert Levine
Music Director

Anne-Marie Logan
Reference Librarian

James C. Lu
AYA Board of Governors

Oscar Lubow

Marybeth Marshall
Minister

James Meehan
Cognitive Science

Stanley Mroczkowski
Applied Physics

Dennis Murphy
Attorney

Samuel Nash
Child Study Center

Kenneth Nesheim
Rare Book Dealer

Danuta Nitecki
Drexel University Library

David O’Sullivan

Barbara Pearce
Real Estate / Law

Ernst Prelinger
Psychology

Franklin Renz
Utilities Company

Daisy Rodriguez

Joan Rudolph
Administration

Richard Russell
Catholic Clergy

Leslie Shaffer
Art Administrator

David Slavitt
Poet

Ed Smith
Sculptor

Wake Smith
Pemco World Air Service

Christina Spiesel
Artist

Sydney Spiesel, MD
Medicine

Lorin Stein
Editor, The Paris Review

David Thompson
David Thompson Architects

Laura Weiss
AYA Board of Governors

Daniel Wolf
Attorney

2011-12 Graduate Affiliates

The Graduate Affiliate Program facilitates interaction between graduate students and undergraduates in both social and academic contexts. Trumbull Graduate Affiliates are a great resource for students and are involved at TC via the Mellon Forum, the Graduate Connections Program, study breaks, Thanksgiving and spring break dinners, and more.

Hosna Sheikholeslami
Hosna Sheikholeslami is a second year PhD student in anthropology who hails from the Bay Area, California. Her research (in its current form!) looks at publishers, translators and the politics of translation in Tehran, Iran. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and spent six months studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan. In her spare time, she can be found wandering through East Rock, swimming with Yale Club Swim, cooking sumptuous vegetarian meals, and singing along to bad pop songs. She also serves as a Magee Fellow at Dwight Hall and is happy to advice students involved with service! She’s thrilled to be part of the Trumbull community.

Jeremy Kessler
After Jeremy graduated from Trumbull College in 2006, he studied the history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar, and wrote and curated for The Hannah Barry Gallery in London. In 2008, Jeremy returned to New Haven, where he is now a third-year JD/PhD student at Yale Law School and Yale’s Department of Comparative Literature. He works on the culture of conscientious objection in the twentieth century. Jeremy’s project has two dimensions: first, it examines how the law of conscientious objection creates new media for self-definition and self-expression; second, it places the development of conscientious objection within the larger history of secularization. His writing has appeared in The New Atlantis and Open Letters Monthly, among other publications.

Kamila Quijano
Kamila Quijano grew up in the Philippines. Now, her family resides in New Zealand. Her first time leaving home was when she was 16 to attend the Canadian United World College (a school of 200 hundred students with over 100 countries represented). The United World College experience tremendously changed and enriched her world view. In 2008, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Human Development & Social Relations from Earlham College. Kamila also studied South Asian Economic Development at the Women’s Christian College in Chennai, India. Currently, Kamila is studying for her Masters in Divinity at Yale Divinity School. Aside from studying and traveling, Kamila is interested in dancing, karaoke, Korean television shows, Glee, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and poverty alleviation.

Jared Jonker
Jared Jonker, a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, earned his bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude with honors) from Calvin College, where he studied English literature. Additionally, Jared has completed coursework at the University of Oxford, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and The University of California (Santa Barbara). Prior to attending Yale, Jared spent five years as a strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and The Touchstone Consulting Group, both in Washington, DC. As a consultant he worked on projects related to homeland security, natural resource management, public finance, intelligence, and national defense. During his time in Washington, DC, Jared co-founded an investment fund focused on community development in the Mid-Atlantic region. He is also a commissioned officer in the United States Navy, currently serving in the reserves supporting the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-2). At Yale, Jared is a University Fellow and a joint MBA & Masters in International Relations candidate pursuing studies in strategy, national security, international finance, and diplomacy.

Shannon Stewart
Shannon is a Ph. D. student in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a B. S. in Cell Biology. In college, she supported herself with a variety of jobs in the arts including sound engineering for theaters and producing rock concerts. She went to a fine arts high school and can play five instruments (but not all at once). She hopes to become an astronaut.

Jane Cooper
Jane Cooper is a second-year law student at Yale. Originally from Dover, New Jersey, Jane has lived for seven years in New York, with a five-month stint in Buenos Aires, Argentina immediately prior to moving to New Haven. Her interests are all over the map, literally and figuratively. She has traveled around China, Mongolia, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. While her previous work has involved legal education and human rights, her coursework and interests currently focus on criminal justice in the United States. She is involved in numerous law school student groups and in her downtime enjoys exploring New Haven, baking chocolate chip cookies, and yoga.

Peter Christensen
Peter Christensen hails from California. He is now a doctoral student in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he studies the impact of urbanization patterns on global carbon emissions. He is currently looking at growth in the emerging economies of China and India, which are expected to add a combined 750 million urban inhabitants by 2050. He earned a Master of Environmental Science Degree from Yale in 2009 and has worked as a consultant to the World Bank.

Renee Kaufman
Renee Kaufman is a second year MEM student at FES. Assuming she succeeds (and she sees no reason why this should not be the case), this will be her second master’s degree. Her first was an MLA (Masters in Landscape Architecture), earned at Harvard with much anxiety, insanity, and tenacity. She earned her undergrad degree from NYU but not before first passing through the gauntlet known as University of Chicago. Renee practiced landscape architecture with varying degrees of fulfillment for 5 years in NYC where, yes, there is plenty of work to be done. As a landscape architect she focused on the design of urban open space; as an environmental manager, she will focus on the ecological functioning of urban open space. Renee spent this past summer in Portland, OR working on an evaluation of the city’s urban ecosystem services. Originally from Manhattan, she’s also lived in London and Paris. Renee likes all the things that over-educated white women in their 30′s are supposed to like- yoga, dinner parties, bikes, the outdoors.

Ali Khan

Laurie Lomask
Laurie Lomask is a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Born in L.A., she grew up in West Hartford, CT, just forty minutes north of Yale. She received her B.A. from Boston University in Spanish literature with minors in mathematics and visual arts. She also studied in Madrid, Spain; Auckland, New Zealand; and most recently Montreal, Quebec. She is now interested in 20th century poetry, modernist literature from Spain and the ins and outs of Trumbull College. You’ll most likely see her around town, reading in a coffee shop, dancing samba or playing capoeira. Come talk to her about opportunities both local and international, especially studying abroad.

Yannick Morgan
Yannick is a jack-of-all-trades everyman whose focus and narrow interests include beach volleyball, musical theater, headstands, handstands, bandstands, also regular standing. Though he grew up in Florida, Yannick reached his current height (thereby becoming a man) at the University of Georgia between 2003 and 2007. In college, he spent most of his time singing a cappella and travelling to places like Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Croatia, Ghana and Sierra Leone. After graduating from this the greatest school in the SEC, Yannick drifted from hills of Georgia’s northland to the Capitol Hill of Washington, D.C., where he worked as a staffer by day and a thespian by night. In 2009, in order to “learn him some,” he left the warm and fuzzy cockles of our country’s capital for the cold and cruel cacophony of Connecticut. Alliteration. Yannick’s long list of jobs includes everything from lifeguarding at the YMCA to reviewing corruption investigations for the World Bank.

Curtis Perry
Curt grew up in Cambridge, MA, and graduated from Cambridge Ridge and Latin High School in 2003, at which point he presumed that he had learned everything important, or else why were they handing him a high school diploma? Eight years later, he is still at school for the foreseeable future, having been frantically trying to learn from all sorts of experiences as a Yale undergraduate and MD/PhD student. He was TC class of 2007, a freshman counselor (to say as way of apology for falling into that role at times), and started at Yale med in 2008. He was initially EP&E, then chemistry, then MB&B, first thinking of a Ph.D. in biochem and then MD/Ph.D. by his senior year. So, it has been a bit of a journey. He joined a lab in immunology (Susan Kaech) in January, and would love to mentor undergraduates in lab once projects are underway.

Alex Ramey
Alex is a native of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, but has spent the better part of the last five years in beautiful New Haven. He graduated from Yale in the spring of 2010 with a double major in EPE and History and is a proud alumnus of Trumbull College. Over the course of his Yale career, Alex directed the Y50K Competition at the Entrepreneurial Society, debated in the Political Union, produced an ill-fated TV news show, interned at the Department of Homeland Security, consulted with McKinsey & Company, spent a summer abroad in Germany, lost track of time, and developed a deep and abiding love for James Gamble Rogers. He is happy to counsel students with similar interests on the dubious life choices they’ve made and their future prospects for meaningful interpersonal relationships, and even happier to speak with students with different interests to learn more about the outstanding ways in which Yale students choose to spend the time they should be sleeping.

After graduation, Alex took the opportunity to travel around Japan and China, get a tan, be nostalgic, and write emo poetry about the nature of being. Shortly after destroying the poetry, he returned to Yale to study law. Alex has continued to pursue his interest in ethics, developed an interest in criminal law, and tried his hand at federal prosecution with an US Attorney’s Office. He feels honored to be returning to his alma mater as a graduate affiliate.

Carmelo Sorita

Taylor Steelman
Taylor is a second year MA student in International Relations with a focus on development in fragile states. She grew up in North Carolina and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2007. Since then she has worked for a variety of projects in Burundi, Ghana, Benin and Haiti. Last year at Yale she volunteered with No Closed Doors and performed in the Vagina Monologues. She’s crazy about bluegrass music and finding good running and hiking trails. She’s a total wimp in cold weather, so she’s on a mission to explore as much of New England as possible while she’s got one more year here.