Y-Work

Nomination Deadline: Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Y-Work Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student Employees

Created by the Yale College Dean’s Office (YCDO) and Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid (UFA), the Y-Work Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student Employees celebrates the positive experiences our student workers enjoy and the critical contributions these students make to the offices for which they work. The Y-Work prize is awarded annually to a small group of current undergraduates whose dedication to their on-campus job has had a positive impact on the community.

Y-Work Award Nominations

All current undergraduate students who have worked a term-time job are eligible regardless of pay grade, financial aid eligibility, or federal work study participation.

Supervisors may nominate their student employees from now until Wednesday, April 15 using the Y-Work Student Employment Nomination form. If you have any questions about the nomination or selection process, please email y.work@yale.edu.

Student employment at Yale

Summer and term-time on-campus employment offers students—both those who receive financial aid and those who do not—an opportunity to fund their educations, extend their learning beyond the classroom, and to make essential contributions to the Yale community. Information about student employment may be found on the Student Employment website.

Y-Work Award Administrators

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y.work@yale.edu


 

Past Y-Work Award Winners

Y-Work Award 2024 Winners Nominated by Department/Office
Kenny Cheng, MY ‘27 Rebecca Shannonhouse HospitaYale School of Medicine Office of Communications
Patryk Dabek, ES ‘25 Gordon Streeter Yale Emergency Medical Service
Adrian Elizalde, TD ‘25 Alfred Guy, Paula Rawlins Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
Leah Mock, SY ‘28 Erynn Johnson Yale Peabody Museum
Isaac Monks, TD ‘27 Tom Adams Yale College Office of Gender & Campus Culture
Rylan Polster, ES ‘25       Carolynn Richer Yale Schwarzman Center
Tyler Schroder, MY ‘25             Joan Feigenbaum Computer Science Department
Rohan Wassink, ES ‘26 Kathrynn Dunn Ezra Stiles Head of College Office
Ines Gilles, SM ‘25 Howard Forman Yale School of Management
Sophia Stumpf, BF ‘25             Howard Forman Yale School of Management

Y-Work Award 2023 Winners Nominated by Department/Office
Adam Taylor, SY ‘24 Heather Tapper Hospitality
Aqua Lake, JE ‘25 Carissa Violante Yale Alumni Association
Astri Doub, JE ‘24 Matthew Gira Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale
Braiya Nolan, TC ‘25 Chantal Vogels Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Daevan Mangalmurti, TC ‘24 Kasturi Gupta South Asian Studies Council
Elizabeth Joslin, GH ‘24       Gary Aronsen Anthropology
Evan Cheng, BF ‘25                Susan Butts Yale Peabody Museum
Grace Miller, TD ‘24 William Hawkins Economics
McKenna Picton, MY ‘24  Holly Hermes Office of Veteran and Military Affairs
Nicolas Gertler, SY ‘27               Joanna Carmona Digital Ethics Center

Y-Work Award 2022 Winners Nominated by Department/Office
Amay Tewari, TD ‘24 Matthew Gira Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking
Risha Chakraborty, SY ‘25 Vidyadhara D J Neuroscience and Neurology Department

Chelsea Kung, MY ‘23

 Jessie Hill Yale College Deans Office
Timothy Han, MC ‘23 John Yi Undergraduate Admissions Office
Grayson Phillips, MY ‘25 Tom Migdalski Athletics Department
Gabrielle Niederhoffer, PC ‘23         Emily Coates Theater, Dance and Performance Studies Department
Manas Sharma, BR ‘24                Jorge Torres Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale
Linda Chen, BF ‘23   Nicholas Ader Cell Biology Department
Evelyn Chacon, GH ‘24    Brittany Choate Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Department at the School of Public Health
Ryan Martinez, ES ‘23               

Amaar Al-Hayder

 South Asian Studies Council at the MacMillan Center

Y-Work Award 2021 Winners Nominated by Department/Office
Akweley Lartey, TD ‘23 Seth Wallace LGBTQ Resources
Eddy Tzintzun-Tapia, SY ‘22 Maria Parente New Haven Affairs

Gabrielle Colangelo, BR ‘22

 Emily Horning, Zelda Roland Yale Library, Dwight Hall
Kendra Libby, SY ‘22 Xiaolei Su Cell Biology
Robin Gallagher, ES ‘22 Heather Calabrese Office of the Secretary
Lea Cioffi, TC ‘24         Kory Marie Evasic Trumbull College
Anna Albright, GH ‘23                Kayla Steinberg Yale School of Public Health
Ryan Flynn, MC ‘22   Adriane Steinacker Physics
Kunchok Sonam, DC ‘22    Julie Swiegard, Therese Barbuto, Clare Schlegel, Silvia Decastro, Lisa Pitoniak, Kathleen Galo YCDO
Andrew Scott, GH ‘23                Sarah Luckart  ITS

Y-Work Award 2020 Winners Nominated by Department/Office
John Klich, MC ‘20 Paul Van Tassel Chemical Engineering
Martin Chandler, ‘ES 21 Kathryn Dunn & Marc Levenson Ezra Stiles
Muriel Wang, TC ’20 Ashleigh Corvi Undergraduate Admissions
Luke Dobson, BR ‘20 Michelle Hutchings Yale Young Global Scholars
Maya Juman, SY ‘20 Susan Butts Peabody Museum
James Sun, SM ‘21 Melissa Goodall Yale Sustainability
Sheyenne Tichnell, BR ‘22 Sarah Fritchey Artspace New Haven
Mbella Beseka, ES ‘20 Kristy Leonard Yale University Press
Jocelle Marius, BF ‘20 Syndia Amazan FAS Dean’s Office
José E. García, PC ‘22 Alicia Schmidt Camacho Ethnicity, Race, & Migration

Y-Work Award 2019 Winners Nominated By Department/Office
Katherine Brumberg, TC ‘19 Jay Emerson & Winston Lin Statistics & Data Science
Joe Doran, TC ‘20 Margaret Clark & Debbie Rueb Trumbull College
Maria Gargiulo, PC ‘19 Jay Emerson & Winston Lin Statistics & Data Science
Paige Hollis-Villareal, JE ‘19 David Brooks & Kristin Elliott Yale Hospitality
Lily Mirfakhraie, DC ‘19 Elisa Rodriguez Cell Biology
TJ Noel-Sullivan, SY ‘20 Xinyuan Chen Information Technology Services
Donovan Sabog, BK ‘19 John Yi Undergraduate Admissions
Sarah Siegel, TC ‘19 Stephanie J. L. Waite Office of Career Strategy
Odette Wang, BR ‘20 Jessica Sack YUAG Education Department
Max Yuhas, TD ‘20 Tom Migdalski Athletics