Student Manager, Shifting Power & Resources

Practicing Equity and Justice in Community, Business, and the Environment

GROUP DESCRIPTION:

CBEY monthly discussion group with Resident Fellow Tagan Engel 

This multidisciplinary group of Yale graduate and professional school students comes together in a monthly discussion group to dig into real-world challenges and inspiring examples of intersectional equity, justice, and liberation practices in businesses, organizations, and communities - in order to adapt these learnings into their lives and work. 

Learnings from sessions are applicable across all sectors but many guest speakers and examples are drawn from food systems sectors. A primary focus is placed on how to put these liberatory, regenerative, and equitable values and strategies into practice in real-world environments. We learn from nature, global indigenous approaches, movement and industry leaders, as well as each other. We will learn practices that center communities most impacted by systemic oppression, and methods for redistributing power and resources to build a just and thriving world for all peoples and life on our planet. 

The group hosts monthly guest speakers and uses engaging multi-media content including videos, podcasts, and social media, with not more than two hours of preparation materials per month.  A diverse range of speakers will be drawn from the New Haven, national and international communities. Group sessions are interactive with a mix of full group and small group discussions as well as student led discussions. Sessions also include a shared lunch from wonderful New Haven BIPOC owned restaurants. The group also organizes optional social gathering time or occasional field trips to deepen our connections and learnings.  

Topics covered include (specific guest speakers and session order may change):

  • Power, Intersectional Identities & Systems of Oppression (workshop)
  • Power With vs Power Over (workshop)
  • Workers Rights & Organizing for Change w/ HEAL Food Alliance & Food Chain Workers Alliance
  • Values-based, Participatory + Community-driven Policy and Budgeting  w/New Haven Leaders
  • LandBack, Sovereignty, Rights of Nature with Sogorea Te’ Land Trust 
  • Reparative Investing with Potlikker Capital/Black Farmer Fund
  • Building Just & Regenerative Supply Chains w/ Forested Co & Sustainable Harvest Coffee
  • Cooperatives & Alternatives to Extractive Capitalism with Coop Hudson Valley

STUDENT MANAGER POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Student Manager will:

  • assist CBEY Resident Fellow, Tagan Engel with planning and execution of details
  • support communications and liaisons with the student group 
  • support students in preparing to co-lead monthly discussions
  • document participation and feedback from students through notetaking and surveys 
  • help coordinate sessions and lunch ordering
  • lead set up and clean up of monthly lunch 12pm -2:45pm once a month
  • help recruit and select participants
  • help coordinate guest speakers as needed
  • help organize and attend 3-4 social gatherings (in addition to the monthly sessions) 

Logistics:

We expect this position will require 2 to 7 hours per week. September through May 

Pay is Yale student rate of $18.00 per hour

Hours are flexible except for the monthly group meeting times listed below.

Session Dates are one Friday a month from 12:30 - 2:30 pm (Student Manager would work from 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm on these dates) and primarily located at the School of the Environment.

DATES for 2026/27: 

  • September 25, 2026
  • October 9, 2026
  • November 6, 2026
  • December 4, 2026
  • January 29, 2027
  • February 12, 2027
  • March 5, 2027
  • April 16, 2027
  • April 30, 2027 closing session and celebration
To Apply:

Apply using the central Yale Student Employment application system and search for Job ID: 36527

You will be asked to upload your resume.

We’d like to learn more about 1) why you are interested in this opportunity and 2) what makes you a good fit for this role.