Education is one of the top careers chosen by Yale graduates. In recent years, Education Studies Certificate students have pursued careers in preK-12 teaching, education research, education law, policy, journalism, consulting and education technology. Learn more about recent Yale Education Studies alumni.
Education Studies Alumni
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Olivia Sally (YC 2024)
Studying education at Yale inspired Olivia Sally to seek further graduate study at the UK on a Marshall Scholarship.
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Nicole Alleyne (YC 2024)
After graduation, Nicole Alleyne received a Charles P. Howland Fellowship to help develop an outdoor education school in Meru, Kenya.
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Grace Miller (YC 2024)
From rural Vermont, Grace Miller spent a summer working on an all-women chainsaw crew in Colorado. After graduation, she will teach in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Wayne Zhang (2018)
Wayne Zhang taught in France as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant and then moved to Changsha, China to teach English for the Yale-China Association.
Current students join a long tradition of Yale alumni in education leadership positions. A number of Yale’s early Black alumni in the late 1800s including John Wesley Manning (AB 1881) taught and held school leadership positions. Read additional alumni profiles below.
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Markus Reneau (YC 2019)
Markus Reneau was selected as one of the inaugural NAACP-Legal Defense Fund Marshall-Motley Scholars to train as a Civil Rights lawyer.
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Steven Morales (YC 2013)
Steven Morales is the Policy Director of the early childhood education non-profit All Our Kin.
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Rowan Claypool (YC 1980)
Rowan Claypool is the founder of Teach Kentucky.
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Leslie Blatteau (YC 1997, MAT Urban Education 2007)
Leslie Blatteau is a longtime New Haven teacher and the president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers.
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Dan Rubins (YC 2016)
Dan Rubins is the Executive Director of Hear Your Song, a nonprofit that empowers teens to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting.
Connect with fellow Yale alumni educators
Yale Alumni Educators, an alumni special Interest group, involves several hundred Yale alumni working in education who host several events annually.