Fellows
Davenport College has an active and enthusiastic Fellowship. Davenport’s Fellowship includes Fellows (distinguished Faculty and Staff at the University) and Associate Fellows (often Davenport alum or people who have made important contributions to New Haven and the larger society).
Julie Braverman
Associate Vice President, Development
Biography
I am a senior leader in the Yale Office of Development. I have nearly thirty years of experience in major and principal gift fundraising and leadership at higher education and performing arts institutions. I live in Guilford with my husband Seth and son Luke. I am a musician and at various times have performed as a singer, violinist and pianist. I was born and raised in California, and despite living in Connecticut for more than twenty years, I'm still convinced the west coast is the best coast.
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Stephen B. Bright
Fellow
Biography
I teach at the law schools at Yale and Georgetown Universities; long-time director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, a public interest legal project, in Atlanta; represented people facing the death penalty at trials and on appeals in the southern states for more than 40 years; and co-author, with James Kwak, of The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts (2023).
I grew up on a farm in central Kentucky and have returned there after being away for over 40 years.
I received my Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky in 1971 and my Juris Doctor from University of Kentucky College of Law in 1974.
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Ally Brundige
Director of Wellness and Justice
Biography
After working in youth development and youth organizing, I became an Episcopal priest. I have served variously in school and hospital chaplaincy anf education and faith settings. I am currently at Highville Charter School a preK-12 school, helping to lead its SEL, equity, and justice programming and curriculum. I am an aunt, hiker, soccer and basketball enthusiast (all about the IMs!), avid reader, and new to the world of birding and loving it. I am blessed by deep friendships many of which were formed working together for a more just and healed world.
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James Bundy
Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean, David Geffen School of Drama; Artistic Director, Yale Repertory Theatre; Professor of Drama
Biography
James Bundy (he/him/his) has served as Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean of David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre since 2002. He teaches in the Acting and Directing programs at the Geffen School and in the Theater Studies program in Yale College. During his tenure, Yale Rep has produced 39 world premieres; ten shows have been honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle as Best Production of the year; two have been Pulitzer Prize finalists.
Through WILLPOWER!, an educational program initiated in 2004, Yale Rep has provided low-cost theater tickets and classroom visits to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New Haven. The Binger Center for New Theatre, founded in 2008, has enabled Yale Rep to commission more than fifty artists to create new work. James has directed productions at the Mark Taper Forum, Theater for a New Audience, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Juilliard School Drama Division. He served from 2007-13 on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group. Previously, he worked as Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company, Managing Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, and Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. James is a graduate of Harvard College and David Geffen School of Drama; he also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.