News and Updates

Our annual AAAYA NorCal Summer Picnic brought together incoming students, current students, alumni, parents, and friends for a beautiful afternoon in Redwood Shores. It was the perfect opportunity for our newest Yalies to meet members of the Yale community before heading off to New Haven this fall. Our picnic featured taco catering again topped off with a picture-perfect cake featuring Handsome Dan. Thank you to everyone who joined us despite the unfortunate timing with the F

We had a wonderful time Sunday 2/8 celebrating the Lunar New Year together again on the rooftop terrace of a fellow alum's place in San Francisco! We were very fortunate as always to have a beautiful sunny day for the event. Alums enjoyed an array of dim sum, home-cooked meals, pastries, and dessert. It was a great time seeing old faces and meeting new friends. Cheers to a prosperous year of the horse!

On Sunday 11/16 from 11:00AM - 2:00PM , the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni NorCal and Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance-Bay Area hosted a fireside chat lunch reception with the Director, Diane Paulus , and General Director of the SF Opera Company, Matthew Shivlock , before the world premiere run of THE MONKEY KING, a new opera by composer Huang Ro and Librettist, David Henry Hwang. Held in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum’s Samsung Hall, event hosts Wendy H

Over 20 years ago, AAAYA hosted a small get-together welcoming incoming Yalies in North California. This year, every single AAAYA...

The 14th Annual Pan Ivy+ Asian/Asian American Alumni BBQ took place at Crissy Field in San Francisco this past Saturday 9/6/25. It was a...

On Sunday 7/13/25, AAAYA Northern California chapter hosted its annual summer picnic celebrating and welcoming the incoming Yale Class of...

On Saturday, May 17th, 2025, the Asian-American alumni communities of Yale (AAAYA), Harvard (H4A), and Princeton (A4P) came together for...

We had a wonderful time celebrating the Lunar New Year together on the beautiful terrace of a fellow alum's place in San Francisco! We...

AAAYA NorCal hosted Karen Zukor of Zukor Art Conservation on June 23 for a special talk about conservation of paper arts and artifacts....