This week, we talked to Federico Brandmayr, a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale's MacMillan Center, and originally from Villafranca di Verona in Italy. Swipe to see some beautiful Italian landscapes, and to find out what pizza Federico orders in New Haven. If you would like to be featured in one of our #humansofOISS stories, just shoot us a DM!
This week, meet Phyllis Mugadza, our 2020 OIS Head Counselor!
Q. Where are you from and what are you doing here?
A. “My name is Phyllis Mugadza and I'm from Zimbabwe . I'm at Yale doing a BSc in Mechanical Engineering '21, and an MPH in Health Care Management '22.”
Q. What is your favorite thing about where you come from?
A. “My favorite thing about Zimbabwe is the nature and the wildlife and being outside in the warm sunshine!”
This week we talked to Luna Zagorac, a 6th year PhD student in Physics, and originally from Belgrade in Serbia. Swipe to see one of her home country's landmarks, and what she gets up to in New Haven. If you would like to be featured in one of our #humansofOISS stories, just shoot us a DM!
Q: Luna, you are originally from Serbia. What would you say are the most common misconceptions about your home country?
A: That it's the same as Siberia We are much closer to the Mediterranean!
Since we're not quite ready to get back into in-person interviews yet, we've decided to start a slightly new version of #humansofOISS if you're interested in sharing some of what you love about where you come from, DM us right now and we'll be in touch!
This week, meet Abdessamad Belgada, who also goes by Samad.
Zeki Tan is a first year student in Pauli Murray College. He comes from the Philippines, though he also lived in New Zealand for a few years when he was younger. Yale came as a bit of a surprise to Zeki, given that he was initially planning on attending college in either the Philippines or New Zealand! But COVID happened, and things fell into place, and here he is!
Manushi Kumar is here at Yale for her one-year Masters in International and Development Economics. She comes from Gurgaon, India and did her undergraduate degree - also in Economics - at Delhi University. After graduating, she worked in management consulting for a year. But when Covid struck, she decided to take a year off and spent her time learning French and computer programming languages.
Introducing you to our amazing OISS Student Worker for this week!
“Hello! My name is Isabella Romero Stefanoni and I am a freshman at Saybrook College. I am from Puebla, Mexico, and a potential Global Affairs and English major. My hobbies include reading, baking, cooking, film, and spending time with friends and family. I am excited to work at OISS this semester!”
- Isabella Romero Stefanoni, Mexico, Yale College, Class of 2025
#oissstudentworkers #humansofoiss #yalecollege #yale
Though those red and black chairs and tables outside Sterling don't look so comfortable, they are surprisingly easy to sit on when you're having an interesting conversation. Ziv Ben-Zion and I chatted on one of those hot-and-cold mornings on the red and black chairs. Ziv is a post-doc in Neuroscience here at Yale. He comes from northern Israel, and received his Bachelors and PhD degrees from Tel Aviv University.
Drumroll please…introducing you to Zayyan, another wonderful addition to our OISS Student Worker team!
Eugenio Saenz Flores is a second year student at the School of Drama, studying Technical Design and Production. That means he's almost half of the way through his four year degree! His path to the theatre is not as straightforward as one might think for someone who so obviously loves what he does so much. Eugenio is from Mexico, “born and bred.” He went to Canada for college and started off on track to get a theatre and business degree, but pretty soon into that program and without taking a single business class, he realized that that life just wasn't for him. So he left!
