Sitting down with Kenneth Reveiz
While most Yale students bid farewell to New Haven after graduation, poet Kenneth Reveiz, CC ’12, stayed in the Elm City to help found the People’s Arts Collective (PAC). PAC is an inclusive public...
Interviews
Sitting down with Evan Frondorf
Evan Frondorf, SM ’14, is the director of sports broadcasting for WYBC Yale Radio. For the past year, his voice has brought Bulldog fans the play-by-play on Yale basketball, football, and, last weekend, the...
Sitting down with John Roemer
Raised a socialist, professor of political science John Roemer became a revolutionary during his time at UC Berkeley in the 60s. After his suspension from the University and a brief stint as a math...
Sitting down with Sandra Olsen
In 1638, the Rev. John Davenport founded the Center Church on the Green in New Haven, then a Puritan colony. Nearly 400 years later, the Herald sat down with the Rev. Sandra Olsen, who...
Sitting down with Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky
A native of Flushing, Queens, Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky became executive director of the New Haven Museum just over a year ago. Since then, she’s overseen an exhibition on bicycles, a children’s workshop on sailboats,...
Sitting down with Siwar Mansour
An Arab-Israeli from Tira, Israel, 18-year-old Siwar Mansour is a violinist for Heartbeat, a pop music group that brings Israeli and Palestinian teenagers together through the power of melody. Mansour has traveled all over...
Sitting down with Rolf Potts
Rolf Potts is a travel writer, journalist, and non-fiction writer. He is the author numerous magazine and website articles, as well as two books: Vagabonding, an “uncommon guide to long-term world travel” that has...
Sitting down with Eva Respini
Eva Respini is an associate curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Most recently, she organized the Cindy Sherman retrospective, bringing together over 170 photographs from the artist’s 40-year career. The...
Sitting down with Parker Liautaud
For the past three Aprils, Parker Liautaud, DC ‘16, has gone on hiking trips—to the North Pole. One of the youngest-ever polar explorers, Parker seeks to engage our generation in the escalating debate on...
Sitting down with Chris and Allie Ramsey
Last summer, Chris Ramsey, DC ’13, and Allie Ramsey, née Allie Rue, BK ’13, tied the knot. The West Coast natives, both also on the track team, live together on Park Street (but they’re...
Sitting down with Linda Friedlaender
Linda Friedlaender is the Curator of Education at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and head of the YCBA Student Guide Program. Friedlaender attracted international media attention in 2000 when she unveiled a...
Q&A: Divya Narendra
At Harvard, Narendra co-founded the social network that inspired Facebook.
Sitting down with Carl McManus
Phil’s Hairstyles on Wall Street is the oldest barbershop in New Haven, in continuous operation since 1924. It sports its original enameled barber chairs, copies of Townhall Magazine (“Fresh. Intelligent. Conservative.”), and a slew...
Sitting down with Andi Zhou
Andi Zhou is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Along with playing piano for Yale’s musical improv troupe, Just Add Water, Zhou is this year’s drum leader for the Yale Precision Marching Band (YPMB),...
Sitting down with Paul Bass
From the moment he stepped onto Yale’s campus, Paul Bass, JE ’82, has covered nearly every story New Haven has served up. He held a position at the New Haven Register while still a...
Sitting down with Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur is one of our nation’s finest living poets. Last spring, Yale awarded him an honorary degree—his latest distinction in a long list that includes the title of U.S. Poet Laureate, two Pulitzers,...
Sitting down with Sybil Houlding
Sybil Houlding practices psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and couples therapy in downtown New Haven, and is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. She is currently the president of the board...
Sitting down with David Gelernter
Some claim that David Gelernter, DC ’76, GRD ’77, was the first to use the term “cloud” to refer to online information storage. Gelernter, a professor of computer science here, is ambivalent on the...
Sitting down with Elizabeth Payne
Elizabeth Payne, GRD ’07, is conservator of the Yale Babylonian Collection. The collection houses about 45,000 cuneiform tablets and other objects from ancient Mesopotamia, and is the largest of its kind in the United...
Sitting down with Cengiz Kilic
"Well, at my high school in Turkey, there were 57 people in my class. All 57 are now here. We graduated the same day, we all came to America, and we all live here."...
