Born in China, Shirley Yeung came to the US after receiving her undergraduate degree in Beijing. She received her MPPM degree from the Yale School of Management in 1993. She is the founder and Managing Partner of Dragonrise Capital in Shanghai, which invests in high-growth tech, media, and telecom companies.
Today's portrait is of Sharon Joy Kwinjo, a senior from Zimbabwe in Pauli Murray College.
Mirei Endara de Heras from Panama, received a Masters in Environmental Studies degree from Yale School of the Environment (formerly Forestry & Environmental Studies) in 1994. She holds a B.A. degree from Wellesley College. She is currently addressing marine and coastal trash and water management issues, trying to get private sector and civil society’s proactive involvement.
Today's portrait features Eduardo Custodio Leal, an undergraduate majoring in Chemical Engineering and Statistics & Data Science with a concentration in Energy Studies.
Mariana Sarmiento from Colombia received her B.A degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Tulane University and graduated with a M.E.M degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the Yale School of the Environment (formerly Forestry & Environmental Studies) in 2011. Sarmiento is the 2017 recipient of the Mulago Foundation’s Conservation Fellow award.
Today, we are featuring the portrait of Brianna Jackson, a PhD nursing student at the Yale School of Nursing. . “I'm a proud Canadian and have called the province of Ontario home. Even though Canada and the United States are neighbors, I often describe my experience moving to the U.S. as transitioning to an alternate reality - that is, the same, but different!
Born in the Hague, Simone Buitendijk studied medicine at Utrecht University and received a M.Ph degree at the Yale School of Medicine in 1990, where she had evaluated medications taken during early pregnancy and its relationship to maternal attributes. She received her Doctorate in Epidemiology at Leiden University and her research was on IVF pregnancies and their follow-up.
In today's portrait, we are featuring one of Yale MacMillan Center's Fox Fellows, Moe Thuzar from Myanmar.
Born in Canada, Anees Chagpar obtained B.S. and M.D. degrees from University of Alberta, M.Sc from University of Saskatchewan, M.Ph from Harvard University, M.A from University of Louisville and an MBA from School of Management at Yale University in 2014. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine.
This week, we are featuring the portrait of Mancy Tong, a third year postdoc at the Yale School of Medicine where she studies how the maternal immune system responds to infection and potentially causes pre-term birth. Mancy was born in Hong Kong, grew up in New Zealand, and came to New Haven three years ago.
