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THURSDAY MARCH 18 8:00 PM HUMANITIESHUMANITIES IN ACTIONACTION CAREER WORKSHOPS CAREER WORKSHOPS SUNDAY “HumanitiesNOVEMBER Major?” 11 “What can you do with THAT?” Listen 2:00–5:00to HUMS alumni PM talk about careers. Followed byWHITNEY workshops. Register forHUMANITIES our 8th annual Humanities in Action workshop.CENTER https://bit.ly/CLYThursdays brian h. kim ’04 is a composer for film and television. Since his move to Los ALUMNI Angeles in 2007, Brian’s work has ranged from experimental electronic beats, to BIOS old-fashioned Broadway musicals, to classic Hollywood orchestral scores. Brian most recently finished scoring the upcoming drama Panic for Amazon, which will sophia lear ’08 is a television writer premiere in spring 2021. He also recently living in Los Angeles. She currently writes scored the shows Star vs. the Forces of Evil for The Unicorn, a CBS sitcom starring (Disney), BH90210 (Fox), and Abby’s (NBC). Walton Goggins and Michaela Watkins. He has produced and directed musical She has written for several other comedies, numbers for the shows How I Met Your including the sitcom New Girl, where she Mother (CBS) and Bones (Fox). Brian’s worked for six years, first as a writers’ feature film credits include Hello, My Name assistant and then as a writer. Before this, Is Doris; Adam; and GBF. As a multi- Sophia was assistant literary editor of the instrumentalist and singer, Brian has New Republic magazine and contributed recorded with artists such as Adele, Lin- book reviews to that magazine and the New Manuel Miranda, Neil Patrick Harris, York Times. Sophia also worked as a Patrick Stump, and Boyz II Men. As director personal assistant to Doug Ellin, the creator of the 2004 Yale Whiffenpoofs, Brian of HBO’s Entourage. At Yale, Sophia performed in more than two dozen majored in English, writing her senior countries around the world. Brian graduated thesis on the shifting boundaries between from Yale with a BA in music (having spent play and audience in Love’s Labor’s Lost, more time in a cappella and theater Twelfth Night, and King Lear. She also rehearsals than in class) and completed wrote for the New Journal magazine. The graduate studies at the University of summer after her sophomore year, Sophia Southern California’s Thornton School of was a leader of the Habitat Bicycle Music in 2008. Challenge, a cross-country bicycle trip to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. Sophia likes to cook, especially pesto spaghetti and risotto. peter norman ’00 is an attorney at ALUMNI Clean Energy Counsel, LLP. A philosophy major at Yale, he served as president of the BIOS Yale Political Union and wrote for several campus publications. His first job after rev. jeania ree moore ’12 is a writer, college involved developing social services clergyperson, and first-year doctoral student for low-income housing residents. He then in religious studies (theology) and African attended law school at NYU. After a brief American studies at Yale. Writing her stint at a law firm in New York, he joined Humanities undergraduate senior essay the Singapore office of Milbank LLP. As part confirmed her desires to pursue a PhD, and of the firm’s Global Project Finance Group, to explore academia and the world before he represented banks, governments, and doing so. Seminary was her next step. At private companies in the development of Emory University, Jeania Ree found a large-scale infrastructure projects in disciplinary home (theology), discerned a Southeast Asia. In 2012, Peter took a job ministerial calling, and worked in and later with SunEdison and moved to Beijing. Peter protested Georgia’s carceral system. After helped develop several first-of-their-kind receiving her MDiv (2015), Jeania Ree was a solar energy projects in Asia, including the Gates Scholar at the University of world’s largest airport-based solar Cambridge, where she received an MPhil in installation at Kuala Lumpur International theology (2016). She then worked for four Airport and the only American-owned years as director of civil and human rights at utility-scale solar installation in China. He the United Methodist Church’s social justice returned to the US in 2015 to cofound a legal agency in Washington, DC, leading technology startup called Winnieware LLC legislative advocacy on immigration, gun (named after his dog), which created violence prevention, and more. Jeania Ree ReplyToSome, an award-winning software returned to Yale in 2020 to study race, application designed to prevent users from nonhuman animals, and theologies of accidentally emailing the wrong people. creation. She writes a column, “Under the Most recently, he has returned to law and Sun,” for Sojourners magazine. renewable energy and with his colleagues at Clean Energy Counsel helps develop solar, biogas, microgrid, and battery storage projects throughout the US. Peter lives in Brooklyn with his wife and dog (the aforementioned Winnie). zelda roland ’08, phd ’16 is the founding director of the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall, which brings access to Yale classes and other ben stango ’11, an attorney at Morgan, campus programming to incarcerated Lewis & Bockius LLP in Philadelphia, students in Connecticut. Zelda conceived of double-majored in political science and and created this program after working Humanities. Ben counsels clients ranging with incarcerated students enrolled in the from emerging and high-growth businesses Wesleyan Center for Prison Education at to Fortune 500 companies in a broad array Cheshire Correctional Institution while of business law matters, including mergers completing her doctorate in history of art and acquisitions, startup guidance, joint and film and media studies. Over the last ventures, financings, restructurings, and five years, she has worked to gain support compliance with securities laws. Currently, for, organize, staff, and fund the program, Ben serves as the lead associate on the which, with its inaugural courses in 2018, Morgan Lewis COVID-19 Loan Program marked the first time any incarcerated Task Force, working with this cross-practice student had ever earned Yale College credit team to advise clients and colleagues on all for completed coursework. Zelda aspects of COVID-19 related federal loan coordinates YPEI’s partnership with the programs, especially the Paycheck Protection Connecticut Department of Corrections Program. With a JD from the University of and its facilities; relationships with other Pennsylvania Law School and an MBA from national and statewide prison education the Wharton School, Ben brings a unique programs and criminal justice perspective on business, law, management, organizations; and a passionate and broad and government to serve his clients’ needs. assembly of Yale faculty, administrators, A proud Philadelphian and South Philly staff, and students who believe that this resident, Ben remains heavily engaged in the program represents the best of Yale’s values city’s civic community. Currently, he serves and visions for the future. She is also an on the board of directors for the Support affiliated faculty member of the Arthur Center for Child Advocates, where he also Liman Center for Public Interest Law at volunteers as a child advocate pro bono Yale Law School. attorney. schedule of events 8:00 pm–8:45 pm Panel moderator: Pauline LeVen, Associate Professor of Classics panelists: Brian H. Kim, Sophia Lear, Jeania Ree Moore, Peter Norman 8:50 pm–9:35 pm Breakout Sessions Ben Stango, Facilitator Jeania Ree Moore, Peter Norman Zelda Roland, Facilitator Brian H. Kim, Sophia Lear HUMANITIES CAREER IN ACTION WORKSHOPS OUR SPONSORS FOLLOW US The Humanities careerslifeyale.org Program Careers, Life, Yale @CareersLifeYale @YaleAlumni CareersLifeYale #YaleAlumni Whitney Humanities Center https://whc.yale.edu/ @YaleWHC @whitneyhumanitiescenteratyale https://www.facebook.com/WhitneyHumanities Yale Alumni CenteratYale/ [email protected] students and alumni of yale Find all of our alumni on LinkedIn.