Meet Class of 2025 graduate Zoë Colfax! #Yale2025 🎓 Zoë Colfax has enjoyed telling stories for as long as she can remember — whether performing on stage or sharing a silly story with her family. And as far back as third grade, when she made her theater debut, she was acutely aware of how people responded to her language choices. And she’d tinker with different approaches that might strengthen the connection with her audience. Colfax has continued to explore different modes of storytelling in the years since, including at Yale. She’d decided to attend Yale because she knew she’d have a chance to continue developing her storytelling skills while also pursuing her interest in African American studies. Combining those interests, she said, she found that she increasingly felt drawn to stories about social issues — and with the potential to change the world. It was her own family influences — particularly her father’s work as a civil rights attorney — that inspired her passion for social...