Developed by Dwight Hall at Yale | Center for Public Service and Social Justice and Tsai CITY, the Neighbor in Residence (NiR) program is a paid, semester-long fellowship for New Haven community leaders, changemakers, and leaders with lived experience to engage, grow, share knowledge, and expand networks within the Yale community.

“Tanzila ‘Taz’ Ahmed and Zahra Noorbakhsh will host a live recording of their #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast on Monday, March 4 at 6:45 p.m., in the Leeds Motion Capture Studio at 149 York St.

“We don’t want to be architects who look down on people, dictating the spaces they live in. We want to be at the same level — to be not someone who designs their life, but someone who understands their life.”

On a recent Saturday afternoon, students and practitioners from diverse fields could be found in every corner of Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM), filling studios and workspaces with computers, headsets, and plenty of snacks as they brainstormed together.

This collection will explore the path towards a blockchain-enabled mechanism for global consensus on climate change

“If you find yourself indulging in a piece of baklava at The Juice Box, Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea, or several other places around the city, you’ll be enjoying the fruits of a mutually beneficial relationship between refugee chefs, sponsored by Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, and the Yale students of Havenly Treats, one of the many student-run organizations at Dwight Hall, Yale’s student-run social justice and service organization.”

CITY Social Innovation Fellow Emma Funk shares her perspective on how CITY is gathering and responding to student feedback as it grows. Read more.

The team behind Raise Green — Franz Hochstrasser, Matthew Moroney, and Kwasi Ansu (each of whom holds an MEM from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies) — describes their ultimate goal in ambitious terms: they envision “a healthy, just, and sustainable world that we all own and benefit from.” Recently, they accomplished a key early step on the way to this goal: the installation of a crowdfunded solar panel array on a New Haven building.