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Brendan WooYale School of ManagementBrendan Woo is assistant director of Asia program operations in the executive education department at the Yale School of Management. In this role, he leads the delivery of Yale’s non-degree programs for Chinese business leaders, both in New Haven and in China. He is also responsible for recruiting and managing the executive education student workforce. Prior to Yale SOM, Brendan had a seven-year tenure with the Yale-China Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring Chinese and Americans to learn and serve together, where he worked in a variety of teaching, recruiting, coaching, development, and strategic roles in New Haven as well as Hong Kong and Anhui Province, China. He holds a BA in linguistics from Yale University, where he was a member of the varsity swimming team and the Guild of Carillonneurs. Email Brendan Woo |
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Jonathan WyrtzenSociologyJonathan Wyrtzen is a comparative-historical sociologist with teaching and research interests in North African society and politics. He works on the areas of state formation and non-state forms of political organization; colonialism and empire; ethnicity and nationalism; urban and rural contentious politics; and Islamic social movements. He has recently completed a book manuscript titled, Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity, that examines the relationships among European imperial expansion, colonial policies of modernization and state formation, and the rise of Arabo-Islamic nationalism in North Africa in the mid-20th century. This study also explores the central roles of three marginal groups – Imazighen (Berbers), Jews, and women - in defining Moroccan identity during the mobilization of anti-colonial nationalism. He is beginning a comparative project examing the transformation of political space in the North Africa and the Middle East in the 1920s, looking at movements defending local autonomy in Morocco, Libya, Syria, Anatolia, and the Arabian Peninsula. Email Jonathan Wyrtzen |
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Cecillia XieComputer ScienceEmail Cecillia Xie |
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Susan Yankee-DillnerVoiceSusan Yankee-Dillner performed the Mezzo-soprano repertoire across the country, including two solo appearances at Carnegie Hall and soloist in the Mozart in Mass Series at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center and the New York City Opera National Company. Ms. Yankee is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music and the Yale School of Music. Ms. Yankee is a (3) three times National Endowment of the Arts grant recipient for her creation of interactive educational operas for children based on popular fairytales to the music of classical opera composers. Each opera has a civic-minded topic; youth smoking prevention, recycling, and healthy eating and exercise. She is the past Artistic Director of Shreveport Opera’s Young Artist Program. Ms. Yankee has been on the faculty of many young artist programs and makes it her mission to guide young performers in a successful career in the arts. Email Susan Yankee-Dillner |
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Joliana YeeAssistant Dean, Director Asian American Cultural CenterJoliana Yee’s tenure as Director of the Asian American Cultural Center at Yale began in January 2018. Prior to joining the AACC staff, Dean Yee served as a Residence Hall Director at the University of Connecticut for four years where she worked closely with campus partners to create an inclusive and equitable living and learning environment. Dean Yee’s dedication to serving Asian/Asian American students and striving for social justice stems from her re-racialization experiences as an Asian international undergraduate student at Miami University over a decade ago. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dean Yee is a first-generation college student who earned her M.S.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University and her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Miami University. Dean Yee is also currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Higher Education from Loyola University Chicago. Her dissertation focuses on highlighting student affairs practice that cultivates the critical consciousness development of Asian/Asian American college students. Email Joliana Yee |
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Calvin YuFinance and AdministrationCalvin Yu is the Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services at Bakersfield College.Email Calvin Yu |
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Raphaella ZanuttiniLinguisticsRaffaella Zanuttini’s interest in linguistics arises from the fact that it studies a component of human nature with methods that approach scientific rigor. She feels privileged to study an aspect of the human mind that is still largely mysterious, the knowledge of language, and enjoy the challenge of trying to model it using a theoretical framework that is still developing, the generative framework. |
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Shu Yi ZhouGlobal Strategy and International AffairsShu Yi Zhou (she/her) is an educator with a decade of experience who specializes in the college application and pre-collegiate summer program process. In the past, she spearheaded a nation-wide summer programs initiative and sent over 600 students to over 40 pre-collegiate summer programs across the globe annually. A strong believer in centering students in her work, Shu Yi has been invited to be a speaker in higher education panels, facilitated workshops at conferences, and has served on multiple committees it national educational access organizations. She’s currently a Program Manager at Yale University where she is on the academic team, and creates and implements curriculum for a global network of students. Email Shu Yi Zhou |