Appendix BDinner Community Case Study

This case study shows how I used a set of worksheets to pose questions about the seven principles in the Prospect Street dinner community I helped create. Your answers should reflect you, not the dinner community.

Prospect Dinners Introduction

When I first arrived at Yale in 2007, the woman who’s now my wife, Socheata, and I moved into a small townhouse on Prospect Street. We had been living in New York for about six years and knew virtually no one in New Haven.

Years earlier, I had met Lolita Jackson, a wise and experienced political coalition builder, who has now served in senior positions with successive New York mayors. This is unusual for anyone, even more so for an African American woman. Lolita taught ...

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