Welcome to The 26th Annual, First Time Virtual
LEAP Year Event
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021
6:30 pm EST Virtual Reception (above)
7:15 pm EST Conversations (below)
Remember to grab the password for your conversation from the email LEAP sent you! [Search for the subject line: "How to Join the 2021 LEAP Year Event" in your inbox]
If you are attending one of our conversations taking place Saturday, February 27th please return to this page on Saturday to join your conversation that night by or before 7:15 pm.
We are so glad to have you joining us! If circumstances change and you are no longer able to attend, please let us know as soon as possible notifying Erin Bond at ebond@leapforkids.org.
1. Bon Appétit!
Featuring Home Cooking New York's Jennifer Clair
Hosted by Gisela & Richard Goldstein
2. Musical Interlude
Featuring the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Director Alasdair Neale
Hosted by Julie Wilson & Tom Ruggieri
3. Lessons from Plagues Past
Featuring Professor Emeritus at Yale University, Frank M. Snowden
Hosted by Cynthia Farrar & Paul Kennedy
4. Handpicked Pairings
Featuring founder of Mystic Cheese and Black Hog Brewing, Jason Sobocinski
Hosted by Cynthia & Matt Haiken
5. Heritage for the Future
Featuring Turquoise Mountain co-founder Rory Stewart and CEO Shoshana Clark Stewart
Hosted by Nancy & Rick Antle
6. In Sickness & In Health
Featuring award-winning journalist Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal
Hosted by Helen Kauder & Barry Nalebuff
*Saturday 2/27 at 7:15 p.m.*
7. Innocent Until…?
Featuring Executive Director of the Innocence Project Christina Swarns & Yale Clinical Associate Professor of Law Miriam Gohara
*Saturday 2/27 at 7:15 p.m.*
Hosted by Kica Matos & Henry Fernandez
8. Doing Well by Doing Good
Featuring COO of Personal Care at Unilever Esi Eggleston Bracey & founder and CEO of the Gen Z-focused JUV Consulting Ziad Ahmed
Hosted by Shelley & Gordon Geballe
9. Say Anything?
Featuring New York Times journalist and Yale Law Fellow Emily Bazelon
13. A Shot of Hope
Featuring chair of President Biden's Health Equity Task Force, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, and Chair of Internal Medicine at Yale, Dr. Gary Desir
Hosted by Cynthia Mann, MD and Claudia Rankine & John Lucas
10. Pandemic Disruptions
Hosted by Deborah & Gary Desir
Featuring author and associate professor at Quinnipiac University, Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean
14. Preserving Democracy in the Age of Disinformation
Featuring former FBI counter-intelligence agent, CNN analyst, and Senior Lecturer at Yale University, Asha Rangappa
11. Telling Untold Stories
Featuring finalist for the National Book Award Karla Cornejo Villavicencio and VP of Initiatives at the Vera Institute Kica Matos
15. An Insider’s View
Featuring Yale University Art Gallery Director Stephanie Wiles and Wurtele Programs Manager Roksana Filipowska
12. The Magic behind the Podcast
Featuring 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner Jake Halpern and Peabody Award-winner Jack Hitt
Hosted by Anne Higonnet & John Geanakoplos
16. Back to the Future
Featuring Mark Simon of Centerbrook Architects, lead architect on the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History renovations
*Saturday 2/27 at 7:15 p.m.*
Hosted by Sue McDonald & Corey Stone and D. Ellen Shuman & Douglas Rae
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