Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 15, 2008|Volume 36, Number 18

Yale affiliates to be honored guests
at benefit event for LEAP

Members of the Yale community will discuss their professional passions and their personal interests as the honored guests at the annual LEAP Dinners fundraising event.

Based in New Haven, LEAP (Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership) aims to harness the power of young people from urban neighborhoods to change their lives and the lives of others. The organization hires and trains 80 college, high school and middle school counselors to work with 250 young children in year-round after-school and summer programs.

The fundraiser will begin on Thursday, Feb. 28, with a cocktail reception 5:30-7 p.m. in Betts House, 393 Prospect St. Guest authors will be signing their most recent books. This will be followed at 7:30 p.m.

by dinners in 26 private homes in the area, each featuring a local luminary. Reservations can be made for just the reception ($50), a dinner ($150) or both. For those unable to attend that evening, there will be five additional dinners on Friday, March 7.

The Yale community members who will be guests of honor at the dinners are: Daniel Esty, the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, one of the world’s leading experts on corporate environmental strategy; Cynthia Farrar, a lecturer in political science, creator of “Purple States,” a citizen-driven news show; Michael Wishnie, clinical professor of law, an advocate for immigration rights; Charles Bailyn, the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy, part of a team that discovered the largest example of a “small” black hole; Bruce Alexander, vice president for New Haven and state affairs and campus development, who has led efforts to strengthen Yale’s engagement with the city; Isra Bhatty, a first-year Law School student, who was a translator for Urdu detainees at Guantanamo Bay and has performed as a hip-hop artist; Aisling Colon, associate master at Calhoun College, a vocalist who will perform jazz favorites with pianist Andrew Rubenoff; Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer-in-residence, author of prize-winning works of non-fiction; David Sensabaugh, the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, an expert on Chinese painting and the art of the Han dynasty; Roger Cohn, editor of Yale Environment 360, an online magazine being launched this spring, and one of the nation’s first environmental reporters; Leslie Woodard, dean of Calhoun College, an author and former dancer with the Dance Theater of Harlem; Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor of Law, one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional scholars; Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and a renowned architect in his own right; Beverly Gage, assistant professor of history, an expert on the history of violence and terror within the United States; and (on March 7) Risa Sodi, senior lector and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Italian Language and Literature.

Other featured guests include a Broadway lighting designer, the director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, journalists and authors, wine and beer aficionados, educators, chefs, pundits and more.

Call Ivy Morgan at LEAP, (203) 773-0770, for a detailed invitation listing the hosts and special guests for all 31 dinners. Seating is limited, so early reservations are recommended.

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