# @yalesph on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-05-13T16:01:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Yale School of Public Health (@yalesph) — https://gondola.cc/yalesph

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We are officially one week from commencement! This week we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding graduates and their impacts on our community and beyond. First up is Sophie E. Edelstein, MPH ‘24.

After commencement, Edelstein is staying right where she is – in New Haven, where she was born and raised.

At Yale as an undergrad and an MPH student, Edelstein spent a lot of time working within the New Haven community, working with several community organizations and the City of New Haven’s Office of Community Health Initiatives.

Currently, she is working on a larger project: honoring the legacy of longtime New Haven community activist Fred Harris through a community history exhibit. 

That bridge between health and humanities, between town and gown, inspired Edelstein’s MPH thesis, which is an exploration of the relationship between Yale and the New Haven community through the lens of community activism and the Black Power movement of the 1960s. 

“I spent a lot of of time as a child canvassing for local campaigns, learning about the richness of New Haven politics,” she said, “and, most importantly, understanding the significant socioeconomic disparities faced by many in our community. A lot of this is influenced by my mother’s background. As the daughter of immigrants, community meant a lot to her, and I think she has passed that down to my sisters and me.”

After commencement, Edelstein will remain at Yale on a postgraduate fellowship to both launch the Critical Histories Lab at the Yale School of Medicine and continue to explore developmental lung biology.

Congratulations to Sophie and all of her fellow graduates! We can’t wait to celebrate you.

#myYSPH

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