Owen Tucker-Smith
Staff Reporter
owentuckersmith | owen.tucker-smith@yale.edu
Owen Tucker-Smith was managing editor of the Board of 2023. Before that, he covered the mayor as a City Hall reporter.
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OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
Navajo journalist Andi Murphy talks Indigenous food at Poynter event

The Yale Sustainable Food Program and the Native American Cultural Center co-hosted a two-part online event on Tuesday through the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, featuring […]

November 11, 2020

GAMZE KAZAKOGLU & OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
New Haveners hold demonstrations to demand ‘all votes be counted’

On the day following an inconclusive presidential election, groups of New Haven residents took to demonstrations to tell election officials to “count every vote” and […]

November 5, 2020

OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
Panelists talk history and foreign aid in new lecture series

On Friday morning, the Yale South Asian Studies Council and the Yale Economic Growth Center co-hosted a panel discussion titled “Aid, Power, and Plague: Lessons […]

November 1, 2020

OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
With New Music New Haven kickoff, composers to showcase pandemic-inspired work

This evening, the Yale School of Music’s New Music New Haven concert series will kick off with a prerecorded virtual performance featuring five student composers’ […]

October 30, 2020

OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
Why I Believe in Ghosts — and Why You Should Too

Babysitting is terrifying. Not because you’re tasked with taking care of someone else’s young children (that is a far more rational fear, especially when you’re […]

October 29, 2020

OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
Adkisson talks Morse/Stiles architecture at Saarinen lecture

On Tuesday, Kevin Adkisson ’12, associate curator at the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, hosted a lecture on architect Eero Saarinen ARCH ’34, who […]

October 28, 2020

CHRISTIAN ROBLES & OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
Community members divided on NHPS plan as reopening date looms

City officials’ efforts to move school reopening plans forward at Monday night’s Board of Education meeting were met with a community divided over the city’s […]

October 28, 2020

OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
SUN, NHR discuss Yale’s ‘broken promises’ at digital outreach event

When John Lee ’18 was working at an educational nonprofit during his time at Yale, he would bike on the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail to […]

October 27, 2020

OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
‘It was just starting to get really homey’: First years prepare for a spring away from Yale

On Nov. 21 at 2 p.m., campus residences will close for all Yale students. For juniors and seniors, this date — now under four weeks […]

October 26, 2020

OWEN TUCKER-SMITH & BRYAN VENTURA
Saybrook College to display portrait of Yale College’s first Black student Edward Bouchet

Saybrook College’s dining hall — currently lined with portraits of former Heads of College, Deans and a selection of prominent white people — will feature […]

October 23, 2020

OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
NHPD, YCSC release first-of-its-kind childhood trauma toolkit for police departments across the US

After more than three decades of collaboration, the New Haven Police Department and the Yale Child Study Center released their trauma-informed police training toolkit that […]

October 19, 2020