Yale Club of DC In-Person Event

Happy Hour at the University Club

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM 

University Club
1135 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036 

Cost: $15-$20 + Cash Bar

 

Yale Club of DC In-Person Event 

"We Are Gathered" - Performance and Talkback
with Oscar-winning Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney '07 MFA 

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
7:30pm

 Arena Stage
1101 6th St SW
Washington, DC 20024

Tickets: $50

 

Yale Club of DC Virtual Event
Co-Sponsored with the Columbia Alumni Association of DC

By Kelsea Petersen / Columbia Spectator Senior Staff Illustrator

How Are Universities Challenging the Government's Encroachment?

with David Pozen '02 '07 JD
Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law
Columbia Law School

In conversation with:

Adam Kushner
The Morning Editor
The New York Times

Wednesday, June 4, 2025
6:30pm-8:00pm 

Yale Club of DC In-Person Event

 

Yale Club Night at the Ballpark

Wednesday, June 18, 2025
6:45pm

Meeting point: Nationals Park
1500 S Capitol St SE,
Washington, DC 20003

 Come join the Yale Club of Washington, D.C. to watch the Nationals take on the Colorado Rockies! The Yale Club of Washington, D.C. has subsidized the cost of your ticket! Tickets are $40/person. Family and guests are welcome!

Yale Club of DC In-Person Event
Co-Sponsored with the Columbia Alumni Association of DC

Ivy League Summer BBQ 2025

Sunday, June 29, 2025
4:00pm-8:00pm 

The Penthouse at Gallery II:
4850 Rugby Ave
Bethesda, MD 20814

 Get ready to kick off the summer in style with ColumbiaDC's sizzling Rooftop BBQ Party! Don't miss out on the fun! See you on the rooftop!

Serve on the Board of the Yale Club! 

Are you interested in serving on the Yale Club of Washington, DC's Board of Directors? The Board actively invites all interested local alumni to consider running for the Club's Board of Directors.  Alumni are also welcome to nominate other alumni! 

Board members represent the interests of alumni, support and enhance existing Club programs, and help foster innovative ways to facilitate interaction between alumni throughout the broader Washington and Yale communities. The position requires ongoing engagement with fellow Directors, alumni, and Club staff throughout the year. 

The Board consists of 15 individuals, who are Members of the Yale Club and who serve three-year terms. To learn more about our current Board of Directors, please click here. 

Directors are expected to be very involved including: attending monthly virtual lunch meetings and quarterly dinner meetings in downtown Washington; planning, executing, and/or supporting at least two programs per year; participating with Club Committees and projects; and attending Club functions.  

We also would like to emphasize that alumni from Yale College and ALL Yale professional and graduate schools are welcome to run! In addition, we welcome alumni from all areas within the greater Washington, DC area, even those who do not live in and close to the city.  We are eager to welcome new Board members and volunteers who can add new perspectives to our current team.

If you are interested in being considered for this important position, please complete the following form.  All submissions must be complete by May 9, 2025 to be considered. 

Questions? Contact Yale Club of Washington, DC.

 This month, please consider donating to
the Yale Club of Washington, D.C.’s annual Community Service Fellowship fundraiser!

This program has made it possible for three current Yale students to spend the summer in D.C. interning at local nonprofit organizations - at no cost to each nonprofit. In recent years, we’ve partnered with Martha’s Table, Capital Area Food Bank and D.C. Youth Orchestra Program. Your contribution will directly impact the amazing work these organizations do in our community, while helping Yalies build their skillsets. All donations are tax deductible and will go towards stipends for the Yale student interns. Help us reach our $15,000 goal!

Three ways to donate:

  • Mail a check to: Yale Club of Washington, D.C., 4200 Wisconsin Ave NW #106-270, Washington, DC 20016 (Please note: CSF Fundraiser on your check.)

Thank you for your support!

 Support Your Club: Yale Club of DC T-Shirts For Sale

     

We're excited to introduce our brand new organic cotton Yale Club of Washington, DC, T-shirts. These soft, durable and fully preshrunk T-shirts are made in the United States with water-based inks. The shirts are blue with the YCWDC logo in white. Each sale supports the non-profit work of the Club, from events to mentoring and community service! 

To order, please click this form, or email Caroline Drees at [email protected] for questions or more information. 

FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF MEMBERSHIP

Dear fellow alumni,

For nearly 150 years, members of the Yale Club of Washington, D.C. have served as the backbone of the Yale alumni community throughout the DMV.  Through this tradition of member support, the Club brings local Yale alumni together to connect, learn, socialize, and serve the communities in which we live.  We currently have 681 contributing Club members whose support allows the Club to serve the approximately 14,000 Yale degree holders, parents, and widows in the greater Washington area.  The Yale Club of Washington, D.C. is among the most vibrant of all Yale clubs across the country.  It is thanks to the financial support of our membership that we are able to do so much. 

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, Club membership has started to decline, understandable, in light of its effect on people’s professional lives and livelihoods.  If you would like to be or remain a Club member, but are unable to do so due to financial hardship, please let me know. 

For those of you who are able, we invite you to become a member, if you are not one already.  And for those of you who are members, we urge you to renew your membership, when the time comes.  Being a member directly supports Club operations and activities.  Our Club is more than just a social club.  Our community service options, under the leadership of Maria Whelan, are particularly robust.  We work closely with the Capital Area Food Bank and sponsor multiple community service fellowships a year.  In addition, we offer educational programming focused on matters of urgent public interest, as well as a variety of topics that feature the diversity and achievement of Yale alumni.

In times like these, it is important to remain connected.  We welcome DMV Alumni from Yale College and ALL Yale graduate and professional schools as part of our community!    Please do not hesitate to contact the Club with your thoughts and suggestions, which will be most welcome.  Stay well and healthy.   


FROM THE YALE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, DC PRESIDENT EMERITUS

Dear fellow alumni,

I write to share an update on the Club's programming plans for the fiscal year.  We will continue to host monthly lectures, virtually for now, and are excited to share plans to broaden the event topic variety offered.  We intend to do so by increasing both the number and subject area of our offerings.  In addition to educational programming, we aim to increase the number of events featuring faculty from Yale College as well as faculty from Yale graduate and professional schools.  We also plan to increase the number of panel events and see this as a key way to engage with material by highlighting the multidimensionality of the issue under discussion. It is our hope to promote valuable connections between the subject matter experts with one another, and with the audience.  One key takeaway from these past months of virtual events is our membership's strong desire to engage with each other and the content during event discussions.  To further this objective, we will host more interactive sessions and use virtual "break-out" rooms whenever feasible to foster discussion in a more intimate setting.  We see this as a way to create community, which stands as a bedrock principal of our Club's purpose and stated goals.  Our planned expansion of the variety of programming types offered will include heritage month events, professional development and Yale alumni career stories, and instructional programming.  Lastly, we are engaging with the greater Yale community to provide artistic programming content.  More information will be coming out soon on this initiative! 

Thank you for being the best part of the Yale Club of Washington, D.C.  Please reach out to me directly if you have suggestions for programming.

Hope to see you soon "virtually" in one of our programs!

Lauren Harris, '14, President


The Yale Club of Washington, D.C. is proud to receive a YAA Board of Excellence Award for our programs last fiscal year. Our Club is proud to work with such a brilliant, motivated, caring, and diverse group of alums, and we appreciate everyone who supports our community.  

 

Get involved with our online community on Facebook!

With more than 1500 members so far, our Facebook group is a valuable "place" for local alumni to connect.  Join us! Young alums can join us here.


  

The Yale Club of Washington, D.C. is regularly hosting webinars and virtual meetings.

Members are able to access all past recordings in our Virtual Library!