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At 12:22 p.m. Eastern Time today, August 14, 2025, 1stGenYale alumni volunteers published our finished custom-built website, based on the web map and draft site developed with the help of our Summer Bulldogs interns last summer, Lara Mohamed '27 and Karen Wang '26. All of the content and history from our original site were transferred, reorganized and freshened, most of it manually by Grace Kim '22, chief graphic designer, Barb Protacio '81, site admin, and Suzanne Solensky '

1stGenYale is seeking passionate new Board of Directors members to help shape our future, creating meaningful programs for Yale’s first-generation low-income (FGLI) students and alumni.  Our all-volunteer Board has direct responsibility for overseeing 1stGenYale, which develops programs focusing on career and life skills. Serving as a 1stGenYale Board member is a way to give back to Yale and help the next generation of these Yale College students succeed. 

All Yale Alumni are invited to attend our 10th Annual Event! Alumni at First-Year Scholars at Yale: Mentor New Students in Navigating Yale & Beyond. All Yale Alumni are invited to attend our 10th Annual Event! Alumni at First-Year Scholars at Yale: Mentor New Students in Navigating Yale & Beyond.

With major disruptions in today's job market, 1stGenYale alumni created this webinar to discuss the impact of potential job cuts or loss to help Yale alumni who might be dislocated. Join our program with Lynn Berger, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and Certified Career Counselor. Michael Watson '81, Employee Experience Advisor, Port Authority of NY & NJ. will serve as moderator (https://tinyurl.com/MWatsonBio) All Yale alumni are invited

For those of you who live in or near NYC – or who might be visiting NYC in May – we will be running this year’s picnic as a pre-summer picnic on Saturday, May 17th from 1-4 PM at Summit Rock in Central Park! This picnic will be co-hosted with several Yale alumni groups that have lots of members in NYC, including 1stGenYale, Yale Alumni Educators, Camp Yale Emeritus, and the Yale College Classes of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.