A Path Appears: Why Should We Change the World?
Master’s Tea & Poynter Lecture
Tuesday, January 26 | 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Timothy Dwight College
345 Temple Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Join Master Mary Ting Yi Lui, professor of American Studies and History, for a special Master’s Tea and Poynter Lecture with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas’ 6th Visionary Leadership Award recipient Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn.
The Master’s Tea will also include a brief opportunity to meet Ms. WuDunn following the conversation. This event is presented in partnership with the Yale Poynter Fellowship and the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications.
This event is FREE and open to the public. No ticket required, just show up!
The Power of One: Individuals Effecting Communal Change
Town Hall Event
Saturday, February 6 | 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Moderated by CT State Senator Gary Winfield
New Haven Free Public Library
133 Elm Street
New Haven, Connecticut
We are all aware of the great need for aid to fight inequity, oppression, poverty and violence abroad – but this need in our own community is equally great, and equally daunting. How can an individual citizen contribute locally in the most effective way? In her best-selling book A Path Appears: Transforming Lives Creating Opportunity (2014), the 6th Visionary Leadership Award recipient Sheryl WuDunn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, asserts that all of us, whatever our income or social class, should be strategically altruistic.
Picking up from this past summer’s Town Hall discussion of active citizenship in New Haven, this community gathering will provide a forum in which to pose and address important questions about our responsibilities to and deliberate participation in improving our city. This forum intends to continue this coming June as part of the Festival’s frank and productive discussions about race, justice, economic opportunity, and social disparity, and, above all, how to empower our community members to realize change both as individuals and in a group.
This event is FREE and open to the public. No ticket required, just show up!
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