July 10, 2018
To Dean Gerken and the Yale Law School leadership,
We write today as Yale Law students, alumni, and educators ashamed of our alma mater. Within an hour of Donald Trump’s announcement that he would nominate Brett Kavanaugh, YLS ‘90, to the Supreme Court, the law school published a press release boasting of its alumnus’s accomplishment. The school’s post included quotes from Yale Law School professors about Judge Kavanaugh’s intellect, influence and mentorship of their students.
Yet the press release's focus on the nominee's professionalism, pedigree, and service to Yale Law School obscures the true stakes of his nomination and raises a disturbing question: Is there nothing more important to Yale Law School than its proximity to power and prestige?
Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination presents an emergency — for democratic life, for our safety and freedom, for the future of our country. His nomination is not an interesting intellectual exercise to be debated amongst classmates and scholars in seminar. Support for Judge Kavanaugh is not apolitical. It is a political choice about the meaning of the constitution and our vision of democracy, a choice with real consequences for real people. Without a doubt, Judge Kavanaugh is a threat to the most vulnerable. He is a threat to many of us, despite the privilege bestowed by our education, simply because of who we are.
Since his campaign launched, Trump has repeatedly promised to appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. Overturning that decision would endanger the lives of countless people who need or may need abortions — including many who sign this letter. Trump’s nomination of Judge Kavanaugh is a reliable way to fulfill his oath. Just a few months ago, Judge Kavanaugh ruled to deny a detained immigrant minor her constitutional right to abortion. Decades-old Supreme Court precedent makes clear that the government may not place an undue burden on a pregnant person’s access to abortion. But Judge Kavanaugh clearly did not feel constrained by precedent: what could be a greater obstacle than a cage? The minor had never wavered in her decision to seek an abortion and had received a judicial bypass from a state judge who found that she was competent to make the decision. Yet Kavanaugh condescendingly and disingenuously held that she must wait weeks until she was in a “better place” to make a choice about her own bodily autonomy — at which point she might not be able to have a legal abortion. Further, Kavanaugh argued that to require immigration authorities to stop blocking her from accessing this right would force the government into complicity.
The judge employed similar spurious reasoning in a 2015 dissent arguing that the ACA’s contraceptive mandate violated the rights of religious organizations, even though those organizations were granted an accommodation that allowed them to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage. Kavanaugh’s opinions give us grave concern that he will consistently prioritize the beliefs of third-parties over the rights of the oppressed — not only when it comes to abortion and contraception, but also regarding other forms of medical care (including care for transgender patients), family privacy, and sexual liberty. Litigants harness this same logic when arguing that institutions have a religious right to discriminate against LGBT people — an issue the Court is certain to take up in the years to come.
Judge Kavanaugh would also act as a rubber stamp for President Trump’s fraud and abuse. Despite working with independent counsel Ken Starr to prosecute Bill Clinton, Judge Kavanaugh has since called upon Congress to exempt sitting presidents from civil suits, criminal investigations, and criminal prosecutions. He has also noted that “a serious constitutional question exists regarding whether a president can be criminally indicted and tried while in office.” This reversal does not reflect high-minded consideration but rather naked partisanship. At a time when the President and his associates are under investigation for various serious crimes, including colluding with the Russian government and obstructing justice, Judge Kavanaugh’s extreme deference to the Executive poses a direct threat to our democracy.
As part of his assault on the administrative state — based not in law, as he claims, but on policy preference — Judge Kavanaugh has undermined attempts to protect the environment and regulate predatory lenders and for-profit colleges. He has called now-defunct Net Neutrality regulations violations of the First Amendment. If elevated, the judge would pose an existential threat to the government’s ability to regulate for the common good and further twist the First Amendment beyond recognition, using it as a sword to advance his personal political preferences. His appointment would usher in a new era of Lochner, with “black-robed rulers overriding citizens’ choices.”
Judge Kavanaugh has consistently protected the interests of powerful institutions and disregarded the rights of vulnerable individuals. On the D.C. Circuit he denied a student with disabilities access to the remedial education he was promised after he emerged from juvenile detention. In a 2008 dissent, Judge Kavanaugh argued undocumented workers are not protected by labor laws. In 2016, Judge Kavanaugh ruled that employers can require employees to waive their right to picket. In a concurrence, he argued that the National Security Agency’s sweeping call surveillance program was consistent with the Fourth Amendment. As an attorney, he advocated for prayer at open public school events in brazen contravention of our country’s separation of church and state.
The list goes on. We see in these rulings an intellectually and morally bankrupt ideologue intent on rolling back our rights and the rights of our clients. Judge Kavanaugh’s resume is certainly marked by prestige, groomed for exactly this nomination. But degrees and clerkships should not be the only, or even the primary, credential for a Supreme Court appointment. A commitment to law and justice is.
Now is the time for moral courage — which for Yale Law School comes at so little cost. Perhaps you, as an institution and as individuals, will benefit less from Judge Kavanaugh’s ascendent power if you withhold your support. Perhaps Judge Kavanaugh will be less likely to hire your favorite students. But people will die if he is confirmed. We hope you agree your sacrifice would be worth it. Please use your authority and platform to expose the stakes of this moment and the threat that Judge Kavanaugh poses.
Signed,
Dana Bolger, YLS ‘19Alexandra Brodsky, YLS ‘16Alyssa Peterson, YLS ‘19Emma Roth, YLS ‘17Bertolain Elysee, YLS ‘19Kathryn Pogin, YLS ‘20Valeria Pelet del Toro, YLS ‘19Jonathan Cohen, YLS ‘20Olivia Graffeo-Cohen (Horton), YLS ‘17Isra Syed, YLS ‘19Veena Subramanian, YLS ‘19Jon Petkun, YLS ‘19Ricky Zacharias, YLS ‘19Laura McCready, YLS ‘18Molly Katherine Anderson, YLS ‘19Rebecca Chan, YLS ‘18Camila Vega, YLS ‘18Faren Tang, YLS ‘18Kath Xu, YLS ‘20Meghan Brooks, YLS ‘19Miriam Becker-Cohen, YLS ‘18Wally Hilke, YLS ‘18Jason Berkenfeld, YLS ‘17Brian Highsmith, YLS ‘17Emma Thurber Stone, YLS ‘19William Stone, YLS ‘17D’Laney Gielow, YLS ‘18Cassie Crockett, YLS ‘17Rachel Tuchman, YLS ‘17Nora Niedzielski-Eichner, YLS ‘18Seguin Strohmeier, YLS ‘16Dorothy Tegeler, YLS ‘16Gregg Gonsalves, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law and Co-Director of Global Health Justice PartnershipSwapna Reddy, YLS ‘16Maya Menlo, YLS ‘18Will Bloom, YLS ‘17Erika Nyborg-Burch, YLS ‘16Scott Stern, YLS '20Jenny Tumas, YLS '20Zachary Herz, YLS '14Jessica Purcell, YLS ‘17Monika Kothari, YLS '16Amber Qureshi, YLS ‘19Joe Muller, YLS '19Julia Coppelman, YLS ‘20Rachel Shur, YLS '17Laith Aqel, YLS ‘20Megan Wachspress, YLS '15John Gonzalez, YLS '20Poonam Daryani, Global Health Justice Partnership Clinical FellowJoseph Meyers, YLS '18Samuel Davis, YLS ‘20Charles Du, '17Elise Wander, YLS '19Aseem Mehta, YLS '20Zain Rizvi, YLS '17Erica Turret YLS ‘20Cal Soto, YLS ‘14Sameer Jaywant, YLS '18Carl Jiang, YLS ‘20James Bhandary-Alexander, Visiting Clinical Lecturer-in-LawSesenu Woldemariam, YLS '19Jacob Bennett, YLS ‘19Ted Lee, YLS ’18Helen Diagama, YLS '17Catherine Crooke, YLS '19Derek Mraz, YLS '19Megha Ram, YLS '18Dianne Lake, YLS ‘20Ruth Lazenby, YLS '19Becca Steinberg, YLS '20Bina Peltzm YLS '19 Nicole Brambila, YLS ‘19Stephanie Garlock, YLS '20Ali Gifford, YLS '18Susan Lin, YLS '04Corey Guilmette, YLS '16Kai Fees, YLS '18Elsa Mota, YLS '20Alyssa Yamamoto, YLS '18Josh Lee, YLS '05Adan Martinez, YLS '17Charlotte Schwartz, YLS '19Natalia Friedlander, YLS '18Juliana Moraes Liu, YLS ‘20Yasin Hegazy, YLS '19Zach Fields, YLS ‘20Sonya Schoenberger, YLS '20Patrick Baker, YLS '18Mark Birhanu, YLS '19Callie Wilson, YLS '18Samantha Peltz, YLS '20John Lewis, YLS '14Clare Kane Yale '14 YLS '19Jorge Bonilla, YLS ‘19Hannah Hussey, YLS '20Jease Marks, YLS '18Ally Arias, YLS '19Gregory D. Phillips, YLS ‘83Amit Jain, YLS '18Bethany Hill, YLS ‘18Joanne Lee, YLS '18Zachary Manfredi '17Healy Ko, YLS '19Monica Cai, YLS ‘20Leanne Gale, YLS ‘20Rachel Kogan, YLS '19Ted Wojcik, YLS '15Sarah Ganty, YLS '18Ryan Cooper, YLS ‘15Jonathan Gray, YLS ‘18Shannon Manley, YLS '20Constance Zhang, YLS '18Rebecca Gendelman, YLS '19Mary Yanik, YLS ‘14Julie Krishnaswami, Associate Law Librarian, Lillian Goldman Law LibraryOwen Monkemeier YLS ‘19Max Reinhardt, YLS '20Alda Yuan, YLS '18Molly Weston Williamson YLS '13David Singh Grewal, YLS '02, Professor of LawSheela Ramesh, YLS '14Samantha Schnell, YLS '19Laika Abdulali, YLS '18Matt Lifson, YLS '19Alon Gur, YLS ‘16Rhoda Hassan YLS ‘19Jesse Williams, YLS '20Elizabeth Villarreal, YLS '19Noah Zatz, YLS '99Antonio Grayson '21 Taylor Henley, YLS ‘17Andrew Walchuk, YLS '17Pauline Syrnik, YLS '19Kathy Lu, YLS '18Eric Baudry, YLS '19Matthew Noah Smith, Lecturer in Law 2007Anil Kalhan YLS '99Kathryn Abrams, YLS '84Petey Menz, YLS '20Gabe Lewin, YLS '20Sanjukta Paul, YLS '03Joel Sati, YLS ‘22Andrew Chin, YLS '98Henry Weaver, YLS '18Michael Yarbrough, YLS '09Michael Wright, YLS ‘15Daniel Hornung, YLS '20Brian Sweeney, YLS '15Chandini Jha YLS ‘21Solomon Ariwoola, YLS '20Julie Wilensky, YLS ‘07Gowri Ramachandran, YLS ‘03Daniel Friedman, YLS '14Ashraf Ahmed, YLS '19Alice Clapman, YLS ‘03Alexander Stephens, YLS '02Rebecca Matsumura, YLS ‘15Aarti Khanolkar Wilson, YLS ‘07Rishi Gupta, YLS '04Jennifer Hunter, YLS ‘03Kaitlin Welborn, YLS '15Tal Eisenzweig, YLS ‘17Jonathan Zasloff YLS '93Michael Stone, YLS '79Thomas Geraghty YLS ‘95Valentina Garzon, YLS ‘19Carrie La Seur, YLS ‘02Megan Wulff, YLS ‘13Matthew W. 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Kraft, YLS '78Michelle Tellock, YLS '11Bethany Robinson, YLS '21Karen A. Massey, YLS '78Jeff Thaler, YLS '77Abja Midha, YLS ‘05Kate Rabb, YLS ‘03Subodh Chandra, YLS '94Richard Gass, YLS '71David A. Newman, YLS ‘06Dana Khabbaz, YLS ‘21John S. Beckerman, YLS 1983Daphne Gilbert, YLS, LLM ‘00Corinne McClure, YLS '18Richard Joselson, YLS '85Martin M. Rutchik, YLS '58Amy L. Katz, YLS '78Tyra Harris, YLS ‘02Deborah Megdal, YLS ‘12Jeff Zalesin, YLS '19Kenneth Ebie, YLS '06Olivia Sohmer Rosenbaum, YLS ‘86Mark Levin, YLS '83Rhoda H.Karpatkin, YLS ‘53Barry D Green, YLS '87Janine Cohen, YLS ‘99Ken Barnes, YLS ‘76Kimberly Brayton, YLS ‘03Jennifer Skene, YLS '14Tom Maher, YLS '14Aeryn Palmer, YLS '12Mateo Taussig-Rubbo YLS ‘01John Winslow Morgan, YLS '84 Lisa Hansmann, YLS ‘21Angela Hefti, YLS '18Michael Tan, YLS '08Camila Bustos, YLS '21Helen P. 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Diamond, YLS ‘94Michael Klein, YLS '98Don Berry, YLS '82Sara Norman, YLS '95Alexandra Block, YLS ‘04Jeffrey Gentes, YLS Visiting Clinical LecturerSusannah W. Pollvogt, YLS '98Deborah Jeon, YLS '86George L. Bischof, YLS '93Elise Sugarman, YLS '20Luke Charles Harris, YLS '77 & '80Eric Naiman, YLS '82Matthew Matera, YLS ‘11Paul Hechinger, YLS '92Jenny Kassan, YLS '95Michael Grisolia, YLS '08Elisabeth C. Lopez, YLS ‘11Richard L. Abel, YLS Assistant and Associate Professor of Law 1969-74Frank R. Curtis, YLS '71Emily Brown, YLS '14Ramis Wadood, YLS '21Victoria Liccione, YLS ‘89Lionel Wang, YLS '21Tuongvy Le, YLS ‘08Claire Chappell, YLS '90Adair Kleinpeter-Ross, YLS '21James Lindley Wilson, YLS '07David Whipple, YLS '22Kenneth Stahl, YLS '00Michael Stowell ‘70Emma Alpert, YLS '09Jeff Gordon, YLS '21Alexa Milton, YLS '16Ian Solomon, YLS ‘02Karen Anderson, YLS '21Alexandra Francis, YLS '18Adam Grumbach, YLS '02Alice H. Henkin, YLS '57Drucilla Raney YLS ‘72Luis Lainer YLS ‘68Danielle Lang, YLS '12George Schutzer, YLS ‘80Ricky Herbst, YLS '07Robert Solomon, Clinical Professor Emeritus of LawCarrie Hempel, YLS '85Sheryl Teitel Winkler, YLS ‘82Rafael Antonio Ruiz-Ayala, YLS '90Edward Stein, YLS ‘00Christopher C. Herman, YC '68, YLS '73Shruti Hazra, YLS '13Brenda Wright, YLS '82Edward McCarthy, YLS ‘12Richard Thorpe, YLS '97Michael Modesto Gale, YLS '18Alan Jay Weisbard, YLS '77Marvin Morse, YLS '52Robert C. Winn, YLS ‘89Emma Larson, YLS ‘17Megan Hauptman, YLS ‘21Baolu Lan, YLS ’09Gabriel Schnitzler, YLS ‘01Aron Katz, YLS ‘60Anna Arkin-Gallagher, YLS '09Barry Johnson-Fay, YLS ‘70Amy F Robertson, YLS '88Kathryn Hunt Muse, YLS '09Henry Heiman, YLS '66Julie Suk, YLS ‘03Lindsay Barenz, YLS '04Sixtine Van Outryve, YLS '18Catherine Chen, YLS '18Donna Decker Morris, YLS ‘79Jessica R. Friedman, YLS ‘84Poonam Juneja, YLS '09Michael Teter, YLS '02Mickey Martinez, YLS ‘07Felix Lopez, YLS '91Gerald McIntyre, YLS '67Peter M. DelVecchio, YLS '88Anju Gupta, YLS ‘03Amrit Singh, YLS ‘01Brian E. Smith, YLS ‘03Joanne Savage, YLS '04Sanya Kumar, YLS ‘17Duncan Kennedy, YLS ‘70Debra L. Raskin YLS 77Rosa A. Pizzi, '07Lily Halpern, YLS '21James Boorsch, YLS '58
Supporters from Broader Yale Community:Inderpal Grewal, Professor, Yale UniversityRuslan Medzhitov, Sterling Professor, Yale Medical School Akiko Iwasaki, Professor, Yale Medical SchoolDavid A.Hafler, M.D., Professor of Neurology and Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of MedicineJoe Craft, Professor, Yale School of MedicineJeffrey Bender, MD, Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, Yale School of MedicineJoel Rosenbaum, Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental BiologyCarrie Lucas, Associate Professor, Yale School of MedicineEric Meffre, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale School of MedicineRichard Flavell, Yale School of MedicineTod Papageorge, Professor Emeritus, Yale School of ArtDeborah Gaines, YC ‘82Richard W. Laughlin, YDS '65David Waugh YC '82Ruby Rae Spiegel, YC ‘15Deborah Gaines, YC ‘82Olivia Mattis, Ph.D., YC '84Carol Simon, YC, '76Helen Bronston, YC ‘85Thomas Linden, YC '70Lindsey Ebeling (Williams), YC ‘11Katherine Tsai, YC ‘05Dan Preston, YC ‘77Jacques Leslie, YC '68Douglas K. Smith, YC '71JoAnne Brown, YC '76Barbara Milrod, M.D., YC '79Lawrence Jay Wasser, M.D., YC '70Ana Ramos-Zayas, YC '90Laura Detres Farrell, ‘91Marian Dolan, YSM '94Robert Brown, YC ‘79, YSD ‘82Louise Spear-Swerling, YGS ‘89Aura Young, GSAS '18Tao Leigh Goffe, GSAS '15Janet Hardy, GSAS ‘04Michael Stern, GSAS ‘76Cynthia Brown, YSN '98Kristie Vermeulen Awad, YSN ‘10Elizabeth Boyce, YSN '94Peter Pohly, YC '59David Blevins, YC, '61Andrew Kerman, Physics postdoc 2002J E, Yale staffLinda Michlin Ludwig, PhD ‘74Carol Reis Whitehead, YC '72Mark Lovett, Yale '81Marcia Russell, MPH, PhD, School of Public HealthLynne Ballew, Founding Board of Editors, Yale Review of Law and Social Action, 1970Antonella Ansani, Ph.D ‘90Richard J.J. Scarola, YC '79Tom Miller, YC '60Amy Bauer, GSAS 1997Mariel Jensen Bailey YSM '75Todd G. Glanz, YC ‘80Suzanne Willis, PhD '79Robert Carpenter, BA '65, M. Mus. '68Kiley Hamlin, PhD, ‘10Denise Ryan, Yale MFA '75Delores Jerde Keahey, M. Mus. '59Catherine Wilson, YCDwight Andrews, '93Desiree Pedescleaux, GSASSuzanne Bartholf DeWitt, DVM, YC '97Daphne Gemmill EPH '72 (Public Health School)Barbara Chase-Riboud, Yale Design & Architecture School '60Christina Nordholm, YC '77Barry Barankin, YC ‘70Jonathan Freeman YC '75Robert Emmett Curran, Ph.D. '74Stephen J Pearson, MD YMS 83Zoe Adams, YSM '21Linus Yamane, GSAS '91Anne Nydam, YC '92Trygve Steen, Ph.D. '67Milton Carrigan, YC '64Bill Shields, YC '72John M. Gourlie, YC '62Cynthia Maris Dantzic, B.F.A. '55Jerry Caveney, Ph.D., YGS ''77Cynthia B. Aten, MD YSM '81Micheal LeVine, YC '62, Ph.D. '68Sara Frucht, YC '80John Terhorst, GSAS '11Kathleen Bonvicini, EdD, MPH ‘90Gautam Bose, Yale SOM '84Antonio L. Arroyo, YC '81Ken Goldstein, YC ‘84Jeff Parish, YC '66Kate Levin, PhD, YC '84Charles R. Gates, YC '70Ken Brownlee, YC ‘84Robert Menefee, YC ‘79Matthew Orel, YC '84Victoria Kostadinova, YC '92L. John Greenfield, Jr., MD, PhD, YC '80Michael Hollander, M. Arch.Patricia Arzuaga, YC '86Karen Eisenhauer, YC '83Melissa Merritt, YC ‘03Judith O Pretell, MD PhD, Yale School of MedicineMeg Guttman, YC '76Dick Rees, YC '57Elaine Panagakos, YC '84Lourdes Sullivan, YC '83Robin Osler, M. Arch '90William J. McCarthy, Ph.D. '80Sandra Levine, M.D., YSM '65Jennifer Coates, YC '84Quentin Lee, MA '93Laurence R. Helfer, YC '87Peter DiFrancesca, YC '04Lydia Gonzalez, YC '78Rev. Joshua Rodriguez-Hobbs, DIV ‘12Dorian Adams, YC '71Jane Zhang, YC '19Edward F McKelvey, GSAS MPhil ‘70, PhD ‘75Kevan Herold M.D.Joanne Godley, MD, MPH, YMS, YSPH ‘77Ed Lowry, YC ‘73David T. Doris, PhD ‘02Charles Stott, Y. Arch '93Kateri Benoit, SOM ‘05Arthur Swalley, YC '88Jean (Mogensen) McKim, YC '84Daniel Povinelli, PhD '91Wendy Jacobson, YC ‘85Lucas Moore, YSA '18Naftali Kaminski MD, Yale School of Medicine Janet Hafler, Yale School of MedicineTerry Watnick, SOM '86Audrey Delaney, YC ‘94Bart Hague, YC '50Gary Chanan, YC '70Alfred Bothwell, PhD ‘75Daniel O'Connell Offner, YC '84Crystal Liu, YC ‘16Emily Offner Hollidge, YC '87Leslie Meral Schick, YC ‘84Nancy Pham, YSN ‘17Jaime Ursic, MFA ‘02Sarah Weiss, YC '05Suzanne Grady, YSN '94Faustina A. Roman, YSM '18Susan Scheer, YC '85Kenise Lyons, GSAS '12Paula Derry, Ph.D., YGS '87Hannah Oberman-Breindel, YC '06Larry Capodilupo III, YC ‘96Matthew Horgan, YC '79Suzanne Woodbury, YC ‘87Joyce Toth, YC '84Paul Hinkes, M.D., YC '66Liza M. Grant, YC '81Margaret Dodds, GSAS '59Clara Mokri, YC '18Bibiana Torres, YC ‘22Curtis Bone, MD, Yale School of MedicineAlexis Krasilovsky, YC '71Stephanie Boegeman, YSPH '16Christina Codo, YSM ‘87Aaron Sojourner, YC '95Caitlin Cromwell, YC '15Maryellen Pachler, YSN '03 Dennis Shea, Physician Associate Program, Yale School of MedicineElizabeth Esterling Stewart, YC ‘81Richard Salzano, M.D., YC ‘84Therese Feng, YC ‘78, PhD ‘99Stephanie Blas-Lizarazo, YC ‘20Noah Rae-Grant, YC '18Tawnie Olson, YSM '00Jay Lane, YC ‘88, GRD ‘97Mark D. Siegel, MD (YMS)Joseph Jones, YC '16Michael Sparkman, YDS ‘90Maria Frank, YC '84Stephanie Eisenbarth, YMS ’05Sarah Esterling, YC '83Charlene Araujo, YC ‘07Steph Hagan, YDS ‘19Katherine Alton Kaynak, YC '93Michael Saltzman, YC '86Carol Simon YC '76Richard H. Minear, YC '60Demetra Hufnagel YC '14Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, YC 84Martin E Cobern GSAS '74 PhDFlora Irving, YSOM '19Meredith Angelson, YC ‘03Ron Squibbs, YC '84, PhD '96Justin Goff, YC '06Brian Frederick, City Planning, Yale School of Architecture '72Tess Aldrich, YSN '09Stanley L. Kaufman, GSAS, Ph.D. ‘68David Porter, YC '10James Feibel, YC '55Lawrence S Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Cardiology) and Clinical Professor of Nursing at Yale School of MedicinePatricia Ohlott YC '83Michael Todd, PhD '73Amanda R Morin, YC '06Christiane H. Citron, YC '71Joan Gaylord, YC '96Mariah Xu, YC '16Elizabeth Jusino YC '83James Smithers, PhD ‘91David G. Schatz, YC '80, Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Chair of Immunobiology at Yale School of MedicineLaura Frye-Levine, FES '08Meg Arenberg, Yale FES '09Joao P. Pereira, Associate Professor, Yale Medical SchoolRachel Silver, M.A. ‘09
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