Yale luminaries to share expertise for LEAP fundraiser
Yale community members will be among the authors, artists, humorists, scientists, professors, explorers and political gurus who will share their expertise at an array of dinners to raise funds for the LEAP (Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership) program.
The dinners -- part of the 10th LEAP Year Event -- will be hosted by community members at more than 30 homes in New Haven and surrounding suburbs on Thursday, Feb. 24. The evening will begin with a cocktail reception 5:30-7 p.m. at the Educational Center for the Arts, 55 Audubon St., followed by the dinners at 7:30 p.m.
Founded in 1992 by members of the Yale community, LEAP is a model mentoring program that matches children from high-poverty urban neighborhoods with trained high school and college student counselors. LEAP provides programs and services to help the children develop their academic skills and self-esteem, improve their ability to succeed in school and become involved in their communities. By teaching and mentoring children, the LEAP counselors have the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and refine their career goals.
Corporate and individual sponsorship of the 2004 LEAP Year Event made it possible to raise $80,000 last year. This year's goal is $100,000.
The Yale participants will be:
Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, who will share his expertise as a specialist in constitutional law, political and legal philosophy, and electoral reform in a discussion titled "We the People";
Dr. Gretchen Berland, assistant professor of internal medicine at the School of Medicine and winner of a 2004 MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, who will discuss her combined career as a physician and filmmaker who makes documentaries on pressing issues in health care;
Dr. Thomas Duffy, professor of internal medicine (hematology) and director of the Program for Humanities in Medicine at the School of Medicine, who will talk about the links between the arts and humanities and the practice of medicine;
John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History and professor of political science, and Toni Dorfman, associate professor (adjunct) and director of undergraduate studies in theater studies, who will take part in a wide-ranging discussion titled "All the World's a Stage";
Harold Koh, dean of the Law School and the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, who will talk about America and the world in the second term of the Bush administration;
Anthony T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law and former dean of the Law School, who will discuss the future of higher education in America with his host Barbara Riley, head of Hopkins School;
Richard Lalli, a renowned singer, associate professor (adjunct) in the Department of Music and conductor of the Yale Collegium Musicum, who will present a program titled "Sing for Your Supper";
Frederick John Lamp, curator of African art in the Yale University Art Gallery and a specialist in the performance art of Sierra Leone and Guinea, West Africa, whose theme will be "Out of Africa";
Joseph LaPalombara, professor emeritus of management and the Arnold Wolfers Professor Emeritus of Political Science, who will discuss his early life in Chicago and his upcoming book about the Windy City;
Barry Nalebuff, the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management at the School of Management and professor of economics and political science, who will draw on his knowledge of game theory and business strategy to share "why-not" ideas with guests;
Donald Margulies, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and professor (adjunct) of English and theater studies, who will describe the joys and frustrations of a playwright's life;
Peter Salovey, dean of Yale College and the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, who will talk about his theory of "emotional intelligence" and how it affects human thinking and action;
Dr. Lisa Sanders, clinical instructor in internal medicine and author of the "Diagnosis" column in The New York Times, who will speak about medical mysteries she has encountered;
James Gustave ("Gus") Speth, dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and professor of sustainable development there, who will discuss the need to think globally about the environment;
Josh Viertal, associate director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Fanny Singer '05, an undergraduate who learned to cook from her mother, Alice Waters, who will describe the University's initiative that stresses the use of freshly grown local ingredients; and
Robert Wyman, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology and co-director of the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute's Undergraduate Science Education Program at Yale, who will speak about the global problems of population growth.
Other featured guests will include the mayor of New Haven, a political cartoonist, an undersea explorer, captain of the Freedom Schooner Amistad, the director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and more. Among those hosting the dinners will be Ellen Shuman and Douglas Rae, the Richard S. Ely Professor of Organization and Management at the School of Management and professor of political science, whose guest will be former Black Panther Warren Kimbro.
For more information about the dinners and the requested donation, contact Judy Clark or Duane Samuel at the LEAP office, (203) 773-0770.
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