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Sherri Burr

Luncheon Speaker Series

Friday, August 29,2025 11:45 at the Artichoke Cafe 

 

Our informal luncheon speaker series, featuring a local guest speaker, takes place on the last Friday of every month. Our August event features Sherri Burr as our speaker, and is limited to the first 35 respondents. RSVPs are accepted accordingly, family members are also invited.  Attendees to pay for their own food and beverages.

 

Sherri Burr is an extremely sought-after speaker who retired as professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law after teaching and writing numerous award-winning books and articles on an impressive range of topics. She received her A.B. (Politics) from Mount Holyoke College, her M.P.A (International Relations) from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. In 1994 she joined the UNM Law school faculty and became the first African American female to receive tenure and promotion to full professor there.

 

Among many other things she has produced and hosted a weekly television show, written a weekly column for the Albuquerque Tribune, and currently serves as an officer on many local boards, including the Albuquerque Museum. In 2015, she was awarded a Monticello Fellowship to conduct research on the Free Blacks of Virginia, the hundreds of thousands of African-Americans who were free before the Civil War. Burr’s ancestors were among this group. Her 27th book, Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865 was published in 2019 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History. She will speak to us on her Mount Vernon project looking at the divergent enslavement legacies of George and Martha Washington.

 

Albuquerque

August 29, 2025 | Friday 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM MST

 

Artichoke Cafe

424 Central Ave SE 

Albuquerque, NM 87102

 

Please RSVP by August 25th to Steve Dillon: sdillon@aya.yale.edu

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Save the Date! - Yale Association of New Mexico Potluck

 Sunday September 28,2025  12 noon to 3PM

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Potluck | pätˈlək | - a communal gathering where each guest or group contributes a different, often homemade, dish of food to be shared.

 

Did you know??

 

“Put simply, across regions, countries, and cultures, for men and women, young and old, sharing more meals is associated with greater subjective wellbeing.”

—   World Happiness Report, 2025

 

Where: The Santa Fe home of Dorothy Bracey and Tom Johnson

**Address will be provided upon RSVP**

 

Logistics: In accordance with tradition, please bring something delicious to share. We will divide the dishes by LAST NAME. Cups, plates, and cutlery will be provided:

 

A - E: Bring a main/savory dish 

 

F - R: Bring a dessert

Please bring a serving utensil for your dish, if needed!

 

S - Z: Bring a beverage (wine, beer, nonalcoholic, etc.)

RSVP: Janet Monroe at janetrmonroe@gmail.com. When you reserve your spot, please be sure to let us know the following:

 

1. Number of guests attending

2. What you plan to bring in the way of beverage, main dish or dessert

 

We can’t wait to see you there!

 

*Volunteers needed: we need an alumnus/-a from Santa Fe to help to set up the tent on Friday or Saturday prior to the September 28 event. Also looking for a volunteer to help with set up on the day of the event from 11 AM to 12 Noon.