Citizens Thinkers Writers

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” - Socrates

Citizens Thinkers Writers is a two-week summer residential program and year-long fellowship program at Yale University for rising seniors from New Haven public schools who are interested in exploring fundamental human questions in a college setting. In small discussion seminars led by professors, students will gain invaluable experience in close reading, analytic writing, and college-level discussion. They will see themselves as active participants in a long-running philosophical conversation that dates back to ancient Greece and Rome and will link this conversation to their own experiences as citizens of twenty-first-century New Haven. Read more…