 
Maya Lin |
elected to Yale Corporation
Maya Lin '81 B.A., '86 M.Arch., who designed some of the nation's most renowned monuments, was elected as an alumni fellow of the Yale Corporation in a worldwide ballot of Yale graduates, President Richard C. Levin has announced.
When she assumes the trusteeship on July 1, Lin will become the first artist to serve on the Yale Corporation and the first Asian American woman trustee in Yale's history. She will succeed David Gergen, commentator and former adviser to four U.S. presidents, whose term is expiring.
"It is a great honor to have been elected to the Yale Corporation," said Lin. "Yale has given me so much, and I am glad to have the opportunity to be able to give back to my alma mater. I am really looking forward to coming back to Yale and to bringing my experiences and insights to help shape the future of the University."
Lin is known around the world for her art and architectural projects. While still an undergraduate at Yale, she designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. She went on to create the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, and her work appears across the country, from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, to the Federal Courthouse in New York City.
Her work, the Women's Table, created ,to honor women at Yale, stands outside Sterling Memorial Library. Lin's critically acclaimed architectural projects include the Langston Hughes Library created for the Children's Defense Fund and the Museum for African Art in New York City.
Lin was born in Athens, Ohio, where her parents taught at Ohio University after fleeing China just before the Communist Revolution. She graduated from Yale College in 1981 with a major in architecture. Two years later, she returned to Yale to study in the School of Architecture; after graduating, she founded her own studio in New York City in 1986.
Lin has been a concerned environmentalist serving on the boards of several national groups. She is currently a board member of the National Resources Defense Council, and she served on the board of the Energy Foundation, which focuses on energy policy and conservation, and the national advisory board to the Presidio Council in San Francisco, which converted a former military base into part of the National Park system. Lin also serves on the boards of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance Project and the Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University, and on an advisory panel of the Studio in a School, New York.
She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, and she has received both national and international honors, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, a Presidential Design Award, and the American Institute of Architects Honor Award. In 1999 she was the Resident in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome. The alumna's life and work have been detailed in the Academy Award-winning documentary film, "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision." She also was awarded a Yale honorary degree -- making her one of only two Yale College alumnae to have been so recognized -- as well as honorary degrees from Harvard, Smith and Brown.
Lin lives in New York City with her husband, Daniel Wolf, and their two daughters.
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