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1. To protect, promote and advance the interests of graduate students at Yale University, and to uphold the dignity of our work and scholarship. To ensure that the university provides the resources and services necessary to our work. To ensure the continued excellence of teaching and research at Yale.

2. To ensure that graduate students have an active role in the university's decision-making processes that affect graduate student life.

3. To maintain the vision, leadership, and organization necessary to be an effective, democratic and united organization.

4. To form a union in affiliation with the Federation of Hospital and University Employees, affiliated with UNITE-HERE!.

5. To join with other students, faculty and workers at Yale, and with the greater New Haven community, to promote justice at Yale and to encourage the university to be a good citizen of the community.

6. To fight against racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of discrimination at Yale University.

Sarah Egan
GESO Chair
Sociology

Stephanie Greenlea
GESO Co-Chair
African-American Studies and Sociology

Brais Outes-Leon
GESO Secretary-Treasurer
Spanish & Portuguese Language and Literatures

Please direct media inquiries to:
Evan Cobb, Communications Director
Federation of University Employees / Unite Here
evan@yaleunions.org / (203) 624-5161 x.284

Carlos Aramayo
David Assouline
Jeffrey Boyd
Eddie Camp
Sarah Egan
Stephanie Greenlea
Sarah Haley
Melissa Mason
Ariana Paulson
Mary Reynolds
Anita Seth
Susan Valentine

Humanities, Social Sciences, and Professional Schools

Michael Cramer (Comparative Literature)
Allison Gorsuch (History)
Drew Hannon (American Studies)
Eli Jelly-Shapiro (American Studies)
Lucas Klein (East Asian)
Joe Klett (Sociology)
Ashton Lazarus (East Asian)
Laura Miles (English)
David Stein (Af Am)

In April 1998, the GESO membership voted to create several standing committees to address specific issues of concern to members. All members are encouraged to serve on one or more of these standing committees, which include:

• International Students Committee, treating issues of concern to graduate students from outside the United States. These issues have included funding, pay equity, English as a Second Language (ESL) training, and free health care for dependents, among others.

• Equal Rights & Access Committee, focusing on issues regarding the recruitment and retention of graduate students from traditionally underrepresented groups. The two issues of greatest concern for this committee in the past year have been the creation of an office of accessibility and diversity at the Graduate School and the improvement of childcare and leave policies for graduate students with children.

• Healthcare Committee, seeking to improve graduate student medical coverage.

• Teaching Committee, focusing on issues related to graduate teaching and research at Yale.

• Communications Committee, responsible for monitoring and improving the spread of information within GESO. The Communications Committee's primary goal is to make decision-making processes within the union more transparent and accessible to members.

• Outreach Committee, responsible for fostering relationships between GESO and other groups on and off campus.

• Personnel Committee, responsible for hiring and writing job descriptions for GESO Steering Committee members.