Michelle Kwan to deliver Spring 2019 Chubb Fellowship Lecture at Yale (April 3)

[Sylvia]

Celebrated U.S. figure skater Michelle Kwan to be honored as Chubb Fellow at Yale University: https://news.yale.edu/2019/03/19/celebrated-us-figure-skater-michelle-kwan-be-honored-chubb-fellow

Michelle Kwan, the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history, will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 3 under the auspices of the Chubb Fellowship at Timothy Dwight College.

Kwan will give the Spring 2019 Chubb Fellowship Lecture at 4:30 p.m. in Levinson Auditorium of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be livestreamed on Yale’s YouTube channel.

Link to watch tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dCTvKk0KN4

Happening later today - Harvard Law School Project on Disability and the East Asian Legal Studies Program present A Conversation with Olympic Medalist Michelle Kwan & Special Olympics Medalist Melissa Reilly, Moderated by Professor William Alford: https://hls.harvard.edu/event/a-con...reilly-moderated-by-professor-william-alford/

 

[Lutzcy]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[VGThuy]

Whoa, Yale and Harvard.

 

[Sylvia]

Just a reminder for those who'd like to watch live later today (starting at 4:30 pm Eastern time).

ETA:

Photos tweeted from Michelle's discussion panel at Harvard yesterday:
https://twitter.com/SpOlympicsMA/status/1113184829011578880
https://twitter.com/SpOlympicsMA/status/1113199246948413440
https://twitter.com/nafontes93/status/1113227877749858304

 

[skatingfan5]

@Sylvia --Thank you for the photo links!

 

[sk9tingfan]

Really worth listening to. Nathan was there.

 

[Sylvia]

Really worth listening to. Nathan was there.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvz_oqEn14R/ (L to R: Professor Mary Lui, Head of Timothy Dwight College who interviewed Michelle; Nathan; Michelle; Vicky Chun, Director of Athletics at Yale)

Re-posting from the Nathan fan thread:

Michelle brought up his skate boarding on campus. She speaks for all of us.

At the end, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dCTvKk0KN4&t=1h16m15s

 

[Sylvia]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvz_oqEn14R/ (L to R: Professor Mary Lui, Head of Timothy Dwight College who interviewed Michelle; Nathan; Michelle; Vicky Chun, Director of Athletics at Yale)

Michelle has shared 4 additional photos (plus a few IG story vids) from her time at Yale yesterday: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv2LN18lCGA/

ETA:

The Director of Atlhletics got her to say this : https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv0RahoBcm1/
A senior at Yale posted this clip of MK delivering a message by request: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv16gIaAc91/
Photo with fans: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv1yNBBnvw1/

 

[kittyjake5]

I enjoyed that very much. I chuckled when she commented on Nathan's skateboarding
.... and on a frivolous note she still has the best looking legs in the business.

 

[Sylvia]

In Chubb Lecture, champion skater shares experiences on and off the ice: https://news.yale.edu/2019/04/05/chubb-lecture-champion-skater-shares-experiences-and-ice
(At the end there's a nice photo of Michelle and Nathan sitting together and smiling while looking at Prof. Lui introducing her perhaps?)

 

[Sylvia]

Michelle Kwan: From Triple Toes to Foreign Diplomacy: https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/...an-from-triple-toes-to-foreign-diplomacy.aspx

 

[Sylvia]

... Harvard Law School Project on Disability and the East Asian Legal Studies Program present A Conversation with Olympic Medalist Michelle Kwan & Special Olympics Medalist Melissa Reilly, Moderated by Professor William Alford: https://hls.harvard.edu/event/a-con...reilly-moderated-by-professor-william-alford/

I found this April 10th article with embedded video of the event: Celebrating Special Olympics: Michelle Kwan and Melissa Joy Reilly speak at Harvard Law School, in honor of the organization’s 50th anniversary

Direct link to watch/listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw0LejQ8H-A

Without This Woman, Michelle Kwan Wouldn’t Have Been An Athlete — And So Much More
By MICHELLE KWAN: https://www.bustle.com/p/without-th...uldnt-have-been-athlete-so-much-more-17168408

 

[sk9tingfan]

Michelle appearing at NYU Shanghai Symposium. Boy, she really gets around!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp_ZPEW6L5c