Events/Programs

Wednesday, March, 28, 2012

Out and Asian

Out and Asian: LGBTQ Asian Americans at Yale

Do LGBTQ Asian Americans have a place in the Asian American community? Is there homophobia? Is there a need for a larger LGBTQ presence? What is the role of Asian Americans in the LGBTQ community?

Join us for a dinner and discussion on Wed, March 28, 5:30 at the AACC.

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LEGAL CAREERS: AN HONEST LOOK

Presented by the Asian American Alumni of Yale Association and the Yale Alumni Association of New York:

LEGAL CAREERS: AN HONEST LOOK

Looking for an honest perspective about a career in law?
Ever wonder if you'll really be happy in a career in law?
Secretly curious about ways to exit a career in law if it doesn't turn out to be what you expect?

Register for this interactive web session on http://lifeafteryale.eventbrite.com/ and come to WLH 119 next Thursday (3/29) at 4:30 PM for answers to all these questions and any of your candid questions about law. This is an exciting opportunity to personally connect with three very established professionals—see the attached bios to learn about the speakers, Mr. Bijan Amini, Ms. Sandra Leung, and Ms. Alice Young.

We hope to see you there!

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Rotary Dial Politics in an iPhone World

Professor Ange Marie Hancock is a professor at the University of Southern California. She will be presenting at Yale at SSS 410 on Friday, March 30 at 12:30pm. Lunch will be provided. She will come and talk about her new book focused on "Oppression Olympics." Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFhCJqmWxkY.

She used to teach in Poli Sci and was a Mellon Mentor at Yale University. She participated in many panels and talks when she was at Yale and often partnered with AASA, BSAY and Mecha to facilitate discussions.

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Night Market

Night Market

Friday, March 30th.

7-10pm. Old Campus

Picture the bustling atmosphere of the Extracurricular Bazaar, but outside, at night, and with fewer people asking if you can sing. Featuring everything from sticky rice to avocado shakes to henna tattoos, music and dance acts by nine groups, and DJ Ubersonik spinning with an LED light show, come enjoy three hours of FREE food, games, and performances. The lights go up at night!

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Burgers and Bowling with Alumni in NYC!!!

Network with young, enthusiastic alumni (see attached alumni bios) based in New York City and find out more about life after Yale. Learn about opportunities in the arts, finance, medicine and much more over burgers from Shake Shack (!) and bowling at Bowlmor (!!). There will be a $20 deposit, which will cover your transportation, bowling AND dinner! If you are interested, fill out the attached application by next Friday (4/6) at midnight. We hope you decide to take advantage of this fantastic (and really fun) opportunity!

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AACC Serendipity

Are you interested in meeting a Yalie in the Asian American community? Do you want to have an exhilarating chat over a cup of coffee? Do you love froyo, mochi, and everything in between? The AACC wants to give you the opportunity to meet new people over a delightful snack!

Email aacc.luck.of.the.draw@gmail.com with your name, email address, college, and year, and we'll pair you randomly for a chat with another student. You will receive an email in the next couple of weeks about the person you have been paired with for AACC Serendipity. Once you have set up a time to meet, you will contact the AACC, and additional information will be provided on how to claim your free gift certificate.

AACC Serendipity will be happening throughout the semester, so anytime you want to meet a new face, all you have to do is send your contact info!

Please email anusha.raja@yale.edu if you have any questions.

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AACC House Open Hours

Come study, relax, or hang out at the AACC. We have an Asian American library as well as computers, kitchen, entertainment and conference rooms. We are located at 295 Crown Street between York and High streets (map). Get acquainted with the AACC today!
(203) 432-2931

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AACC Library

Ever wondered where Yale keeps its trove of Asian American novels, short story collections, plays, and academic works? Probably not. But that doesn't make the AACC's library any less awesome, and now, students can check out books, like Ronald Takaki's Strangers from a Different Shore and Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men, from the AACC. Just fill out your name, contact information, and the name of the book on our google doc and drop by the third floor of the AACC to pick up the book-- all the cool kids are doing it!

Click here for the link!

If you have any questions, please contact lia.dun@yale.edu

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Other Events

Yale Raga Society's 2012 spring concert

We are deeply honored to present three concerts featuring stalwarts of Indian vocal music:

1) Prof Stan Scott of Yale and other local masters in "Weaver's Song: Bhajans of North India"

2) Gundecha Brothers - internationally acclaimed exponents of the Dhrupad tradition

3) O.S. Thyagarajan - world-renowned master of Carnatic vocal music

All concerts are free and open to the public. Please see the poster below for more information.

Best,

Yale Raga Society Board

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Neera Tanden, '96, President of the Center for American Progress on Fairness, Inequality and the Presidential Debate of 2012

Neera will draw on her years of experience on the campaign trail, the fight for health care reform, the White House, Capitol Hill, and the policy advocacy community to discuss how questions of fairness and inequality are arising in the current presidential campaign. She will address inequality in many forms, including rising economic inequality, challenges facing the middle class, tax reform, the fight for LGBT equality, and the recent debates over contraception.

Neera is the President of the Center for American Progress, one of the most influential think tanks in Washington. The Center for American Progress, with its sister Action Fund, have played a key role in shaping the debate around the pressing issues facing our nation: from the state of the economy to ending the war in Iraq to health care reform to comprehensive immigration reform to global warming and clean energy to education reform...the list goes on and on.

After graduating from YLS, Neera's political career began in the Clinton White House, where she was an associate director for domestic policy and senior advisor to First Lady Hillary Clinton. She went on to campaign for Hillary Clinton's Senate race and served as her legislative director on Capitol Hill. Neera was one of the founding staff of the Center for American Progress, but went on the campaign trail for the Clinton and Obama-Biden presidential campaigns, leading both campaign's policy shops. After the election, Neera joined the Department of Health and Human Services, where she helped to craft and pass the Affordable Care Act. Finally, Neera rejoined the Center for American Progress as Chief Operating Officer before taking the lead of the organization.

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Sur Et Veritaal's Spring Chutney

Come one, come all to Sur Et Veritaal's Spring Chutney! As many of you may know, Sur et Veritaal is Yale's newest a cappella group, specializing in South Asian popular music, but also incorporating elements of the Indian classical, Western and fusion musical traditions. We will be joined in this celebration by our renowned counterparts from Stanford University, Raagappella.

It will take place in Sudler Hall (William L Harkness Hall 201), this Thursday the 29th of March, at 8:00 pm. Tickets will be available for $5 before the show (please send an email to suretveritaal@gmail.com or buy a ticket from a member of the chorus), and $7 at the door. Be sure to buy your tickets soon -- the seats are going fast!

To find out more about the choruses, please check out our facebook page (www.facebook.com/suretveritaal) and Raagapella's website (http://raagapella.com/). And feel free to attend on the facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/208454502587767/

All the best and we hope to see you on Thursday!

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Weather

Jook Songs is an Asian American Spoken Word group who writes and performs autobiographical pieces. "Weather" is not a theater production or a play, but a night of truth. As a writing group, we push each other to write honestly and without pretense, to dig deeper into what doesn't get said in the day-to-day. Come to our show for a break from the small talk: Listen to our stories and think about your own.

March 30 & 31

7:30pm

Davenport Auditorium

RSVP to http://www.jooksongs.com/rsvp

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Love Makes a Family - LGBTQ Families Speak Out! Presented by Pride @ Yale

"Love Makes a Family" - a groundbreaking artwork documenting the lives of LGBTQ families - is coming to Yale!

Come out to celebrate the exhibit and kick off Pride @ Yale at the grand opening, 8-9pm Thursday March 29. Or, visit the Trumbull College art gallery to view the show any time between March 28 and April 4.

"Love Makes a Family" is a museum-quality art exhibit, comprised of photo and text portraits of families with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) members. Through first-person accounts and vivid full-color images, this art challenges pervasive assumptions about the diversity in race, class, religion, age, and disability within the LGBTQ community.

Co-sponsored by the LGBTQ Coop, Fierce Advocates, the Asian-American Cultural Center, La Casa Cultural, the Social Justice Network at Dwight Hall, and Queer Jews at Joseph Slifka Center.

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Hips Against Hunger: Yale Belly Dance Spring Show

Get ready for a belly dance spectacular, and fundraiser for the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen! March 30, 8 pm, and March 31, 8 pm, Harkness Auditorium in the Sterling Hall of Medicine. This dynamic dance show will include exciting swirling skirts, spinning veils, breathtaking sword balancing, and dances to traditional and modern music from the Middle East and beyond! Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, we hope to make this our most extravagant show ever! Tickets on sale at www.yale.edu/bellydance/events or available at the door.

Sponsored by the Yale Office of International Students and Scholars, the McDougal Center, and the Yale Graduate and Professional Student Senate.

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Opportunities

Interested in a year of study, research, or teaching abroad after graduation?

Calling all juniors, and any other interested students (even graduating seniors!):

Come hear about some fellowship options and begin thinking now about applications due in the next few months for terrific opportunities beginning in 2013-14. **Attendance at an information session is required before a one-on-one meeting with an adviser, so don't miss out!

Rhodes and Beyond: UK Postgraduate Fellowships Information Meeting

Friday, March 30, 11:00 am at CIPE, 55 Whitney, Room 369 (3rd floor)

This meeting provides an overview of major fellowships for postgraduate study in the UK and Ireland (Churchill, Gates, Marshall, Mitchell, and Rhodes) and the application/selection processes. Speakers include former winners of these fellowships at Yale. The deadlines for these start before classes begin in September, so now is the time to start thinking about applying. Come to this meeting or one of the other postgraduate fellowship meetings, and then schedule an appointment with Kate Dailinger. Not sure you're a good candidate for one of these fellowships, but interested in post-graduate study in the UK? Come to an info session and talk to Kate anyway! (Find out more about these fellowships .)

Fulbright Grants Information Meeting

Tuesday, April 3, 4:30 pm at CIPE, 55 Whitney, Room 369 (3rd floor)

The Fulbright Scholarship Program offers academic-year awards to over 140 countries. Opportunities exist worldwide for research, projects, formal degree study, teaching English and more. Come and learn about the program and the application/selection process. Speakers include former Fulbright Scholars from Yale. These fellowships have an early fall campus deadline (early September), so it is important to get started now. There will be ample time for questions. Come to this meeting or to one of the informal meetings in residential colleges. (Learn more about Fulbright .)

Fellowships for after graduation

Monday, April 2, 6:30pm, location tba

Thursday, April 26, at 6:30 pm, SSS 410

Not sure what you'd like to do after graduation, or wondering about fellowships like the Fulbright, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color, or Yale fellowships open to graduating seniors? Whether you're a US citizen or an international student here at Yale, there are many terrific postgraduate opportunities around the world—from scientific research to the practice of an art to the teaching of English. Campus application deadlines begin in August, so now is the time to start thinking about what you'd like to do after graduation and about applications! Start by getting the inside scoop from past winners and this year's applicants. See the list of fellowships open to seniors, check our calendar for other info sessions and application workshops, sign up for our listserv, and more, at www.yale.edu/fellowships.

Watch our calendar for application workshops to be scheduled after Break. And remember: unless you're studying abroad, you must attend one of the information meetings before you can meet with an adviser!

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Institute for Recruitment of Teachers

Meet Leislie Godo-Solo at IRT Info Session (Associate Director of IRT)

Wednesday, March 21st at 5:00pm

La Casa Cultural

RSVP to lacasa@yale.edu

Schedule an interview with Leislie Godo-Solo (Associate Director of IRT)

Thursday, March 22nd 9:30am–3:00pm

La Casa Cultural

Sign up at lacasa@yale.edu

Take the next step w/the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers

Founded in 1990, the IRT provides academic and individualized support to students (juniors, seniors, and college graduates) from diverse backgrounds who wish to attain Master's and/or Ph.D. degrees in the following areas: the Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and Mathematics. IRT participants are individuals who plan to pursue careers in teaching, counseling, and administration at both the K-12 and university levels.

The IRT sponsors two programs: the Summer Workshop and the Associate Program

The Summer Workshop is a four-week program held on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA.

IRT interns:

• Engage a graduate-level curriculum of critical, cultural, and educational theory and participate in a GRE Prep Course

• The workshop typically runs during the month of July. Interns are provided with room, board, and a $1200.00 stipend.

The Associate program is geared toward undergraduates and college graduates who are unable to attend the Summer Workshop and who may be otherwise engaged in summer research and/or study abroad activities. Participants in both programs are sponsored by the IRT as they apply to graduate schools in a consortium of 41 affiliated colleges and universities.

Benefits of the Summer Workshop/Associate Program

IRT applicants are provided with the following support:

• Assistance with the fine-tuning of the Statement of Purpose essay, resume, and writing sample

• Counseling regarding various degree programs and universities in a consortium of 41 schools

• Application fee waivers

• Invitation to participate in IRT's annual Recruiters' Weekend, attended by more than 60 academic deans

Visit the IRT website, http://www.andover.edu/irt and/or contact Leislie Godo-Solo, Associate Director at 978-749-4113; lgodosolo@andover.edu

Application Deadline is April 1st, 2012

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CIVIL RIGHTS PARALEGAL OPENING

Position and Background

Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC, a public interest law firm in Washington, D.C. that represents primarily plaintiffs in discrimination cases, including fair housing, fair lending, employment discrimination, and public accommodations cases, is looking for a full-time paralegal to work with the Firm's lawyers.

Relman, Dane & Colfax's civil rights practice includes race, disability, gender, familial status, national origin and sexual orientation discrimination cases. The Firm also provides compliance counseling to corporate and not-for-profit clients in the areas of fair housing, employment, public accommodations, and fair lending. For more information on the Firm and its work, please visit our website at www.relmanlaw.com.

Responsibilities

Duties include conducting interviews with potential clients and drafting memoranda analyzing their claims, conducting factual investigations, performing factual and legal research, reviewing documents during the discovery phase of litigation, organizing and maintaining case files, interviewing witnesses, working with attorneys to prepare client presentations, and assisting with trial preparation. The paralegal will also be expected to perform various administrative tasks.

Qualifications

The position requires outstanding writing ability; strong analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills; flexibility; knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and WordPerfect for Windows; and a willingness to work in a team environment. Candidates must have completed a Bachelor's degree by start date of position and be willing to commit for two years with the firm. Applicants are expected to demonstrate a dedication to civil rights, strong academic credentials, and an interest in litigation. Fluency in Spanish and knowledge of Excel and Access are preferred. Minority applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

Application

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. While hiring will begin as soon as possible, the start date for this position will begin early summer 2012. Interested persons must submit a cover letter, resume, transcript, writing sample, and list of three references by mail or email to the addressbelow.

Applicants who would like to know more about the position should call (202)-728-1888 and ask to speak with Jennifer Klar.

Contact:
Office Manager
Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC
1225 19th Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20036-1738
careers@relmanlaw.com

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The Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) is currently accepting Internship and Scholarship applications

The Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) is currently accepting Internship and Scholarship applications for 2012.

Scholarship Overview:

CAPAL scholarships allow outstanding APA students to spend the summer interning for a federal government agency, a Capitol Hill legislative office, or a non-profit organization, and gain firsthand knowledge of the workings of American government. Each CAPAL scholar will be awarded $2,000 in scholarships to support their successful completion of an internship of their choice in the Washington D.C. metro area. Each CAPAL scholar will be responsible for obtaining their own placement.

Internship Overview:

In partnership with federal government agencies, CAPAL will award internships with stipends at federal offices to outstanding Asian Pacific American (APA) students committed to public service. Past agency placements have included the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Forest Service, Agricultural Research Service, Rural Development, and Food Safety and Inspection Service.

CAPAL is a 501(c)(3) charitable and educational organization dedicated to building leadership and public policy knowledge within the Asian Pacific American community. Its mission is to promote APA interests and success in public service careers, to provide information and education on policy issues affecting the APA community, and to serve the APA community at large.

Please visit www.capal.org for more information.

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Fall 2012 Job Opportunities Making Social Change

We're looking for smart, hard-working students who work well in a team and are eager to work for change after graduation. .

The Fund for the Public Interest (aka "the Fund") helps some of the top progressive organizations in the country work on issues such as clean water, equal rights for GLBT Americans, and ending subsidies to corporate farms. And we're hiring!

Specifically, we're hiring Citizen Outreach Directors to run our grassroots campaign offices across the country next fall -- working on behalf of groups like the Environment America, the Human Rights Campaign and US PIRG.

We are looking for smart, motivated students who want to get their hands dirty and make a real impact on some of the most critical issues facing our society.

If you are interested in applying, visit our website at www.fundjobs.org, or contact me directly – 612-331-8400, adougherty@fundstaff.org .

I'm looking forward to speaking with you more about our positions!

Alexis Dougherty

Citizen Outreach Director – Minneapolis

Fund for the Public Interest

612-331-8400

adougherty@fundstaff.org

www.fundjobs.org

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National CAPACD Seeks Interns for 2012

Greetings,

National CAPACD is seeking interns for the 2012 Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters.

Throughout the year, National CAPACD provides a pipeline for emerging leaders who are committed to a career in AAPI community development and advocating for social justice. Interns learn about public policy issues impacting AAPI communities and gain hands-on experience addressing housing and community development issues. Students are often enrolled in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs including ethnic studies, public policy, urban planning, public health and education.

Please click here for more information and to download an internship application.

If you have any questions, please contact Melvin Tabilas at melvin@nationalcapacd.org.

Thank you!

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