Andrew Kornfeld
Staff Reporter
andrew.kornfeld@yale.edu
Author Archive
ANDREW KORNFELD & ALESSA KIM-PANERO
We Could Make a Dream World

Remi Wolf might be losing her mind. In her debut album “Juno,” which came out on Oct. 15, Wolf drags her listeners through the ins […]

November 18, 2021

ANDREW KORNFELD, MEERA SHOAIB & ELLA GOLDBLUM
“How long will I need to be in here?”: The “Elder Statesman” dies after contracting COVID-19 in NY prison

As Benjamin Smalls looked out of his window from his hospital bed in Poughkeepsie, New York, he told his daughter he was grateful for the […]

June 11, 2020

ANDREW KORNFELD
TikTok is Saving Us

Everything’s different now. The rhythm of normal life has been broken by the reality of quarantine and Zoom and social distancing — words that didn’t […]

April 2, 2020

ELLA GOLDBLUM & ANDREW KORNFELD
The Hidden Charge: Connecticut’s Fight for Free Prison Phone Calls

During Jovaan Lumpkin’s 11 and a half years in prison, his mother never missed the phone bill. Jovaan, a 34-year-old Hartford resident, was incarcerated for […]

March 6, 2020

ANDREW KORNFELD
STRANGERS: Changing the World with Reilly Johnson ’22

During Reilly Johnson’s first semester at Yale, her mother sent her a package. Inside was a cross-stitched image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg framed next to […]

January 24, 2020

ANDREW KORNFELD
From The Sidelines

With two seconds left in the 2012 Fire Island Basketball Tournament championship game, first-round player Zuri Pavlin drained a turn-around jumper to give the white […]

December 6, 2019

ANDREW KORNFELD
Remembering Her Family’s Tragedy: A Preview of “Fun Home”

When Danilo Gambini moved to New Haven from Brazil in 2016, he went to New York to see the musical Fun Home. The production had […]

December 6, 2019