Student Liaisons
The Student Liaison Program offers Yale students a chance to expand their horizons far beyond traditional academic opportunities by being mentored by a World Fellow.
About
The Student Liaison Program is a chance for Yale students to expand their horizons far beyond traditional academic opportunities, glimpsing the global impact of a World Fellows cohort, while working directly with and being mentored by an individual World Fellow. Imagine having access to a truly accomplished global citizen - one who is already driving systemic political changes, creating more sustainable ecosystems, or upending human rights inequalities.
About student liaisons
During the fall term, while the World Fellows are on campus, Liaisons assist Fellows with everything from campus integration to event planning, while benefiting from the mentorship each Fellow provides in return. The lasting relationships between Liaisons and World Fellows drive meaningful experiences on campus and ongoing impact around the globe.
Expectations
Apart from profiting from mentoring by the World Fellow, student liaisons are expetced to integrate and introduce their World Fellow to Yale student life through the residential colleges, campus groups, social activities, etc; assist the Fellow in organizing campus talks, including marketing and publicizing these events to bring together those interested in the topic of discussion; and develop opportunities for World Fellows to engage with students across campus.
Eligibility & application
The World Fellows Student Liaison program is open to all Yale undergraduate and graduate students who are actively enrolled and on campus during the Fall semester. Applications to the student liaison program open once a year in the summer preceding the arrival of the next cohort of World Fellows.
Hear from our student liaisons
I'm very grateful to the World Fellows program for creating a space to grow and learn in ways the traditional classroom doesn't typically offer. Hearing fellows talk about their careers—their takeaways, insights, and guidance—helped shape my own professional plans. The program was also incredibly flexible and supportive, encouraging me to engage in the ways I was most interested in and even providing room to develop new programming. The relationships I built were meaningful both professionally and personally, and they've lasted well beyond the semester. My one piece of advice to future liaisons: spend as much time with the fellows as you can! One highlight of my senior year was the weekly walks with my fellow!
Maya Aidlin-Perlman
- with 2024 World Fellow Leticia Jauregui Casanueva
The experience has greatly strengthened my interest of working along the intersection of public and private sectors. There is something exciting about working with new ideas at a rapid pace, in a workplace of those your age, working in teams, while mobilising profit incentives simultaneously with public good. I also see great potential in capacity building, financing, or innovating from the private sector, while the larger risk remains keeping these firms mission-aligned yet afloat. I've taken a look at civic technologies a lot more as a possible career path since then, but I also know that working in this sector means I need to build up important hard skills in order to be competitive.
Nicholas Yee
- about his experience as an intern at Tarek Mouganie's (YWF '24) company
All of us liaisons here were lucky beyond belief to be able to spend the last several months in the company of visionaries from every corner of the world. The kindness and mutual support found at the intersections of the experienced fellows and those of us taking our first steps into true adulthood is wonderful. Their paths have shown us as Yale students that there is no one set formula to success, no one right way to go about changing the world or starting a revolution. These are valuable lessons that we are lucky to be able to take from this semester.
Lis Siegel
- YC'20