Morse Fellows
Morse College is a vibrant community. We would love to count you among us. The Fellows meet a few times per semester at the Head of College’s house, to interact with friends from all parts of the University and from the broader community. Many play the role of Advisor for a student or two. We extend invitations to student functions such as performances and college-wide social events, welcome participation at intramural sports, provide dining privileges in the college at lunch or dinner, all so you can meet with students, faculty and friends. Please join us - we welcome you!
Jenny Peek
Associate University Chaplain
Biography
Jenny Peek joined the Chaplain’s Office as Associate University Chaplain in July of 2017. Alongside her role as Associate Pastor for the University Church at Yale, Jenny can be found meeting one-on-one with students and staff from around campus, leading monthly W{holy} Queer discussions and spring break trips, and planning programming for the graduate and professional student community.
Jenny comes to the Chaplain’s Office after receiving a Masters of Divinity with certificates in Educational Leadership Ministry and Reformed Studies from Yale Divinity School in May of 2017. During Jenny’s time at Yale Divinity School, she served at Wesleyan University, Westminster Presbyterian Church in West Hartford, CT, and within Yale’s Title IX Office. Jenny is ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Prior to her time at Yale, Jenny worked with the Network for Victim Recovery of DC as a case manager and Lutheran Volunteer Corps volunteer and earned her B.A. in Psychology from Grinnell College. As a native Coloradan, Jenny loves exploring new pockets of the East Coast and can often be found playing the djembe, listening to musicals, or enjoying breakfast at all times of the day.
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Lauren Perrino
Director, Y-VISP; Associate Director, Study Abroad
Biography
Lauren Perrino advises students who are interested in studying abroad in France, Asia including the Middle East (except Light Fellowship sites), and North Africa. She also directs the Yale Visiting International Students Program (Y-VISP), which brings undergraduate students from Yale’s partner institutions to study at Yale for a semester or academic year. Lauren received an M.A. in International Education from the George Washington University and a B.A. in French and Education with an Italian minor from Gettysburg College. As an undergraduate, Lauren spent a semester abroad with IES Nantes. After her undergraduate graduation, she spent a year in Nîmes, France, teaching English through TAPIF.
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She enjoys karate, the gym, learning languages, and reading.
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Rafael A. Porrata-Doria, Jr.
Professor of Law
Biography
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Prof. Porrata-Doria is immersed in international and comparative law, as well as other areas of business law. He has substantial interests and experience in in economic development, community development, government service and healthcare. He is a veteran with over twenty years of service.
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Chandra Prasad
Author/Editor
Biography
Chandra Prasad is the author of the young adult novels Mercury Boys, a 2022 Connecticut Book Award finalist, and Damselfly, a racially diverse, female-driven survival tale published by Scholastic. Damselfly is used widely in schools as a modern parallel text with the Lord of the Flies. Her general fiction titles include On Borrowed Wings, another Connecticut Book Award finalist; Death of a Circus, which Booklist calls “richly textured and packed with glamour and grit;” and Breathe the Sky, a fictionalized account of Amelia Earhart’s last days. Prasad is the editor of—and a contributor to—the W.W. Norton anthology Mixed, the first-ever collection of short stories on the multiracial experience. Her shorter works have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Week, Teen Voices, School Library Journal, and in literary, arts, and poetry journals. Prasad is a frequent guest speaker on podcasts and at high schools, universities, and literary conferences. She is also a contributor to New Haven Noir, an anthology edited by Amy Bloom.
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Creative writing, editing, teaching, diversity in literature, public speaking, environmental sustainability, advocacy, and social justice.
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Jeremiah Quinlan
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions & Financial Aid, Yale University
Biography
In July 2013, Jeremiah was appointed Dean of Undergraduate Admissions. The start of Jeremiah’s tenure coincided with the beginning of active planning for the first expansion of Yale College enrollment in more than 40 years. Jeremiah worked to diversify the applicant pool and increase the diversity in each first-year class of approximately 1,370 students in preparation for enrolling the first class of approximately 1,570 in the fall of 2017. Compared with the first-year class that began at Yale fall 2013, the class that began in fall 2023 includes nearly 150 more Pell-eligible students, and 140 more first-generation college students.
In August 2017 Jeremiah’s portfolio grew to include oversight of the new Yale Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid. In this role, he leads a team of financial aid officers who work with the nearly 3,000 Yale College students who receive need-based Yale scholarships, and manages the College’s financial aid budget of approximately $210 million. With the Yale College Financial Aid Working Group Jeremiah has developed several policy enhancements that have benefited all students receiving aid, while significantly reducing financial expectations for students from families with the greatest financial need.
In addition to his responsibilities as Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Jeremiah is a member of the senior management team of Yale College and has chaired the searches for the Dean of Student Affairs and the Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid for Yale College. Jeremiah has served as a College Advisor for first- and second-year students since 2003. He has served on the College Board’s advisory group for the redesigned SAT and was a member of the Board of Directors of The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success.
Jeremiah graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a B.A. in History. More recently, he received his M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, majoring in Marketing, Finance, and Social Enterprise.
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Paula Rawlins
Assistant Director, Yale College Writing Center, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
Biography
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Paula’s academic interests include writing center and composition studies; anti-racist, feminist, and contemplative pedagogy; Southern literature; fat studies; and music therapy. She lives in Hamden, CT with her incredible husband Wes, bulldog Sam, and cat Peaches. Wes and Paula enjoy attending concerts and comedy shows and traveling whenever and wherever possible. Paula is proud to be a first-generation college student and enjoys mentoring (and cheering on!) students as they work toward their academic and personal goals.
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Nathaniel Raymond
Lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
Biography
Nathaniel A. Raymond is a Lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. His research interests have focused on the human rights and human security implications of information communication technologies (ICTs) for vulnerable populations, particularly in the context of armed conflict. Previously, he was the founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2012 – 2018. From 2010 to 2012, he was Director of Operations for the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan. Raymond was Director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights from 2008 – 2010, leading investigations into the role of US health professionals in the Bush Administration’s “enhanced” interrogation program.
He previously was a humanitarian aid worker with Oxfam America, serving in the field in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and the US Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Raymond has conducted joint research with multiple United Nations agencies into the role of ICTs and digital data, including remote sensing, in improving the protection of civilian populations and the delivery of humanitarian assistance. He served as a consultant in early warning of mass atrocities to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in South Sudan in 2015. Raymond was a 2013 Poptech Social Innovation Fellow, a 2010 Rockwood Leadership Human Rights and National Security Reform Fellow, and a co-recipient of the 2012 US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Industry Intelligence Achievement Award.
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Lonnie Reed
Chair the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Green Bank
Biography
After ten years in the CT House of Representatives where she Chaired the Energy and Technology Committee Lonnie Reed chose not to run again for re-election. She is now Chair the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Green Bank, having been appointed by Governor Lamont. Connecticut created the nation’s first Green Bank, which has had remarkable success helping to fast track renewable energy with a host of innovative programs and incentives that attract considerable private investment to make public dollars go much farther. The federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) recently enacted by the US Congress, includes a national Green Bank provision modeled on the Connecticut Green Bank. The Green Bank is mission driven and one of its key objectives is to bring equity and justice to communities long afflicted with toxic air, unhealthy housing, Asthma epidemics - all the dirty energy results of discriminatory public policy decisions.
Prior to becomeing a CT State Representative, Ms. Reed has had a career as a journalist, a political talk show host, and as President of Iger/Reed, a production company for documentaries and TV network specials.
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Rep. Reed is deeply involved in a wide variety of public policy issues and in promoting public engagement in the political process.
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Mindy Jane Roseman
Director of International Law Programs and Director of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights
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Daniel E. Rosner
Research Professor, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Biography
Dan Rosner, Emeritus and Research Professor, was a Professor and formerly Chairman of Yale’s Department of Chemical Engineering. Dan Joined the Yale faculty in 1969 after 11 years of industrial research, having completed his BS in Mechanical Engineering at CCNY and Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering at Princeton University. During his academic career, Professor Rosner developed/taught advanced engineering courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, and directed the Ph.D. research in convective energy-and molecular species-transport, fine particle technology, and combustion. He published over 240 papers on these topics and the award-winning book Transport Processes in Chemically Reacting Flow Systems.
Professor Rosner also studied graphic arts/printmaking at the High School of Music & Art in NYC, graduating as August St. Gaudens Medalist in 1951. His art went on hold until the ‘70’s when he resumed printmaking at New Haven’s Creative Arts Workshop. His work has been published in Science magazine and The New York Times. Currently a member of the New Haven Paint & Clay, and the Hamden Art League, he is planning shows at Yale in October 2014, Orange, CT, and Woodbridge, CT both in 2015.
Interests:
Prof. Rosner would be pleased to meet with and advise Yale College students interested in (or considering) majoring in our School of Engineering, as well as recent alumni.
He is also interested in helping to organize/mount art exhibits (for the Morse College Gallery) by students and faculty/scholars associated with Morse College.