YaleWomen Chair Letter

March 25, 2024

Greetings across the YaleWomen Community, 

YaleWomen is pleased to share an exciting announcement. Today, we are launching our brand identity refresh, an evolution of the original logo in place since our founding in 2011.

The refresh is a reflection of the diverse and inclusive community we’ve built and, even more than that, enables members to engage with Yale women in a more simple way.

Our refresh coincides appropriately with International Women’s Month, and UN Women’s call to “Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress.” This has been the mission of YaleWomen since our founding - advancing the impact and influence of women. And in a time of great need and even greater opportunity, we remain resolute in our mission now more than ever.

Since our founding by a small group of enthusiastic alumnae around the time of Yale’s celebration of 40 years of co-education, YaleWomen has grown to be a diverse and inclusive community of more than 13,000 alums and students across 22 chapters and virtual groups throughout the world. This expanded reach increases our impact and efficacy. Our most impassioned goals - advancing gender equality, diversity, and inclusion require more: more urgency, more resources and more bold, new ideas. As part of the refresh, the YaleWomen Governing Council has devoted meaningful efforts and investments to provide support to achieve our ambitious goals.

Today, we have several important launches and updates to announce, including:

  • the launch of our 2024 Digital Experience Series open to all Yale women, led by Yale Women from all schools, representing a diverse set of industries and geographies. The full series is on our site here

  • the expansion of YW Global Get Togethers and our Writer’s Group focused on connecting alums around the world in a virtual setting. Sign up here

  • the expansion of YW Chapters programming and support. Find your local chapter here

  • the newly formed partnership with WLI, our on-campus student chapter, and the launch of the YaleWomen Mentoring Initiative, a cross-Yale program that matches graduates and current students around areas of interest and expertise. More info here

  • the adoption of better technology to deliver a significantly expanded range of programming around the world going forward; and

  • the rollout of our new website with our new brand identity, now live here

The creative and intellectual fuel of YOU, our members, has propelled us forward into our next chapter of impact. We hope you will invest in yourselves and amplify the influence of your peers by engaging with the inclusive, supportive and inspiring community that is YaleWomen. Membership in YW and all of our resources and programming continue to be free of charge. We invite you to learn more and join us in our 2024 programming and beyond.

You may have already noticed some changes to our social media channels. If so, I encourage you to like and share with your YaleWomen networks.

Lastly, I want to underscore the commitment that I bring to the YaleWomen as Chair along with my fellow Officers and Council Board members. It’s been our great pleasure to collaborate on our 2024 resources, programming and the brand refresh. I look forward to engaging with all of you as the year unfolds.

Here’s to a future built by and for this incredible community.

Belinda Wu

Chair, YaleWomen