Evening with Sarah Kirkland-Snider, composer and visiting Professor at Princeton University
Hosted in a private home on May 1, 2024
Join us for a dinner with composer Sarah Kirkland Snider. Sarah writes music of direct expression and vivid narrative that has been hailed as “rapturous” (The New York Times), “groundbreaking” (The Boston Globe) and “ravishingly beautiful” (NPR). Recently named one of the Top 35 Female Composers in Classical Music by The Washington Post, her works have been commissioned and/or performed by the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Emerson String Quartet, Renée Fleming and Will Liverman, mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, percussionist Colin Currie, the sextet Eighth Blackbird, the chamber orchestra A Far Cry and the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, among many others.
Evening with Alyssa Sharkey and Andrea Graham
Hosted in a private home on May 9, 2024
Join us for cocktails and conversation to discuss one of the most pressing issues in global health today: vaccines. Dr. Andrea Graham is a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. She works in immunoparasitology to understand the evolutionary ecology of host defenses and parasite transmission strategies. In 2020, she was elected as a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Alyssa Sharkey is a Lecturer in the School of Policy and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she is affiliated with both the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Office for Population Research. Over the past 25 years, Alyssa has worked as a health policy analyst, program officer, and policy researcher within a variety of academic, research and non-governmental settings, both internationally and in the United States.