YES Stories

Julia Leonard is a developmental cognitive scientist and an Assistant Professor of Psychology. Dr. Leonard studied Neuroscience and Behavior as an undergraduate at Wesleyan...
 
Donna Thompson (she/her/hers/ella/suya) is a Yale Class of ’88 alum originally from Flint, Michigan and now living in Tempe, Arizona. While at Yale, Donna majored in English/...
 
Olivia (Liv) Sally (she/her) is a rising junior in Pauli Murray College majoring in Political Science. She has always been attracted to the field of education, which she...
 
Jenny Heikkila Diaz (they/she) is a Yale Class of 2000 graduate from Los Angeles, CA. While at Yale, JHD was in Morse College and majored in Political Science. “My interest...
 
Sasha Nelson (JE ’24, she/her/hers) is a sophomore from Seattle, a Classics Major, and our first profile on students in the Ed Studies Certificate Program!  Sasha became...
 
Rebeka (Beka) Cabrera (she/her/ella) is a sophomore in Trumbull College majoring in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (ER&M). Originally from Brooklyn, NY, she has been...
 
Carly Benson (BK ’24) is a sophomore from Pasadena, Texas studying Statistics and Data Science. Broadly, she is interested in looking beyond standardized testing and finding...