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Pat DallaiPat Dallai is a local (aka townie), born in New Haven and has lived in the area all her life. She has three children, six grandchildren and loves the arts, reading and gardening. She came to work at Yale in 1979, and is now here for 35 years, and always considered Trumbull College her home base. She began her career as the Master’s AA in Trumbull, then went on to administer the Residential College Seminar Program and moved from that position to become the Excecutive Assistant in the Council of Masters central office. After spending a good portion of her career working with student life programs and issues, she took a position as the Executive Director of the Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty–a change that she has enjoyed immensely. Pat feels privileged to have spent her career at Yale and the best part has been getting to know so many wonderful students, staff and faculty members. Email Pat Dallai |
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Jake DavidsonArtistJake Davidson is an artist that uses moving image, research, and narration to explore the depths and reanimations of colonialism. His interests include digital colonialism and the search for micro-autonomies. Works have recently been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, MoMA PS1, Terminal Projects, Higher Pictures, Temporary Agency, Recess Project Space, and Family Business in New York, as well as the Center for Electronic Arts in Norway, Syndicate Potentiel in France, Uganda in Jerusalem, and the Athens Video Art Festival in Greece. Jake was the recipient of the Oslo Grant, and a former artist in residence at Seven-Below in Vermont and the European Exchange Academy in Berlin. He was an artist at Fondazione Antonio Ratti in the summer of 2016, and will be screening new work at the 18th Festival of Experimental Cinema, Paris in Fall 2016. He holds a BFA from Calarts and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. His films are distributed through Doc Alliance. His book collaboration, Cloud Chambers, was published through Temporary Agency Press in New York. Email Jake Davidson |
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Margaret DeliEnglishMargaret Deli (Maggie) is an Instructor in the Yale English Department, where she teaches classes on creative nonfiction (ENGL 120), gossip, scandal, and celebrity (ENGL 114), and the literary history of the female sociopath (ENGL 115). In the spring of 2019, she served as the Interim Dean of Trumbull College; she currently serves as the Interim Dean of Silliman College. Maggie received her PhD from Yale in May of 2019. She holds masters degrees from the University of Oxford and Christie’s Education in London and received her BA in English and Art History from Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on aesthetic professionals and expertise during the modernist era. Email Margaret Deli |
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Michael DevoretApplied PhysicsDevoret’s research focuses on experimental solid state physics with emphasis on “quantronics,” i.e., mesoscopic electronic effects in which collective degrees of freedom like currents and voltages behave quantum mechanically; basic understanding of quantum non-equilibrium physics of superconducting circuits for information processing, such as quantum computation and quantum sensing. |
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Eileen DonahueDevelopmentEileen Donahue joined WASHBURN & McGOLDRICK in 2019 after a successful career as an attorney, probate judge, and senior advancement director at Yale University. She is respected for her straightforward, creative, and personalized approach to philanthropy and gift planning for donors at every level of giving, as well as for her strategic contributions in closing significant, multifaceted gifts. Eileen was named Yale’s Director of Planned Giving in 2003. During her sixteen years in that role, she was responsible for all aspects of the university’s planned giving program, including the marketing, solicitation, stewardship, and administration of bequests, life income gifts, donated securities, real estate, and other non-cash assets. Eileen guided the design and implementation of a highly effective marketing and communications strategy for planned gifts and led the expansion of gift planning training opportunities for advancement staff across the university. She launched Yale Legacy Partners, the university’s first recognition society for planned gift donors, and grew its membership to 2,300 donors. She also oversaw the creation and management of Yale’s donor advised program and established and administered a registered charity in the United Kingdom with dual tax benefits for Yale donors in the U.S. and U.K. Under Eileen’s leadership, Yale’s undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, libraries, museums, and athletics department doubled the number of new bequest intentions and raised over $700 million in planned gifts during the 2004–2011 Yale Tomorrow campaign. In 2012, Eileen was appointed Yale’s Senior Philanthropic Advisor and assumed additional responsibilities for working closely with university leaders, donors, and their professional advisors in providing key support for the structuring and closing of Yale’s most generous and transformative gifts. Since joining the WASHBURN & McGOLDRICK team, Eileen has provided planned giving counsel and training to numerous clients including Princeton University, Imperial College London, Syracuse University, St. Lawrence University, Vassar College, Providence College, University of Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, United States Golf Association, Denison University, Rollins College, University of Rhode Island Foundation, William and Mary, Miss Porter’s School, and Fairfield College Preparatory School, among others. Prior to her work in educational advancement, Eileen served for ten years as Probate Judge for the District of North Haven, Connecticut, presiding over cases involving decedents’ estates and trusts and a wide range of sensitive matters affecting children, seniors, and individuals with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. During her tenure at the Probate Court, Eileen assumed increasingly progressive leadership positions within the Connecticut Probate Assembly, the statewide association of probate judges. She began her legal career as an attorney in private practice, focusing on estate planning, probate, real estate, and civil litigation. Eileen received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of New Rochelle and her Juris Doctor degree from Boston College Law School. She has served as a member of numerous non-profit and civic boards and commissions. |
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Joe DoranYale Investments OfficeJoseph Doran is a proud Trumbull alumni who graduated from Yale College in 2020 with degrees in Economics and Global Affairs. He is originally from Springfield, Virginia but currently resides in the great city of New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating, Joseph joined the Yale Investments Office where he focuses on Private Equity. Outside of work, he loves to swim, hike, read, and play piano. Email Joe Doran |