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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.



Melissa Mason
GESO Chair
Political Science & African American Studies

Dan Gilbert
GESO Co-Chair
American Studies

Marnix Amand
GESO Secretary-Treasurer
Economics

Jeffrey Boyd
Mandi Jackson
Mary Reynolds
Carlos Aramayo
David Assouline
Anita Seth
David Huyssen
Evan Cobb
Sarah Haley
Melissa Mason