Columbia DC (An Alumni Club)

Please join us at Busboys & Poets (450 K) on Friday, May 24th, 2024 as Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business at Tulane University shares his findings on How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power.

Our host will be Andy Rabens, Director for Global Engagement and Multilateral Diplomacy at the National Security Council.

Co-sponsored by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Clubs of Washington DC; more information and tickets here:

The Venture Alchemists: Professor of Practice, Albert R. Lepage Professor in BusinessExec. Dir., Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and InnovationA.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

The Dartmouth Club of DC would like to invite ColumbiaDC members to attend 2024 Daniel Webster Award for Public Service Honoring Rabbi Susan N. Shankman ’91, Senior Rabbi, Washington Hebrew Congregation and First female president, Washington Board of Rabbis

Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm – 6 PM check-in and light refreshments, program begins at 6:30

Reception with heavy hors d'oeuvres and open bar with beer, wine and soft drinks to follow

Location: Washington Hebrew Congregation
3935 Macomb Street NW, Washington,DC; RSVP here:

2024 Daniel Webster Award Dinner Limited on-site parking is available, with ample street parking on Macomb and 39th Streets. The Congregation is a short Uber Ride from the Tenleytown Metro Station (Red Line)

Please join us at our specially-themed Trivia on March 27 at 6:30pm at Blackfinn Ameripub on 1620 I St NW in celebration of Women's History Month.

We will mix in some fun trivia about historic and influential Women, all the way to a sprinkle of questions to test your March Madness awareness. Don't worry if you don't arrive with teammates. There will be plenty of others to join--or you can just fly solo.

This event marks the first Columbia Business School-Women’s Circle-sponsored event in DC.

Everyone is welcome!. RSVP here: https://dc.alumni.columbia.edu/cbs-dc-trivia

In celebration of Black History Month, please join us on Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 at 7:30 pm at Arena Stage for the play Tempestuous Elements by the Maryland-born playwright and Columbia alumna Kia Corthron, SOA'92. This world premiere will be directed by D.C. artist Psalmayene 24 in the Fichandler Stage. Tickets here:

Arena Stage presents: Tempestuous Elements reveals the struggle of educational luminary Anna Julia Cooper as she fights for her students’ rights to an advanced curriculum. In a scandal orchestrated by the government, her tenure as principal of D.C.’s historic M Street School is sabotaged by her colleagues and neighbo...

For ColumbiaDC members in Baltimore (hosted by the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Maryland); no registration required.

Please join us at the historic Whittemore House on Jan 10, 2024 at 6:30PM as Prof. Melissa S. Kearney—an acclaimed economist and expert in social policy, poverty, and inequality— shares the surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems. Cosponsored by: MIT, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard clubs of Washington DC; Tickets here: https://dc.alumni.columbia.edu/melissakearney

Trivia Night with Ivy friends, July 27, 2023@6:30PM, BlackFinn Whitehouse; RSVP here https://dc.alumni.columbia.edu/trivia

Join us tonight!

Race vs Class: Denouncing racism and celebrating diversity have become central to progressive politics. For many on the left, it seems, social justice would consist of an equitable distribution of wealth, power and esteem among racial groups. But as Prof. Adolph Reed Jr. and Prof. Walter Benn Michaels argue in the...

On the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, please join us JUNE 15, 2023 at 6:30PM as Carol Sanger, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and Hillary Schneller, Senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, use this occasion to sort through the myriad legal and social repercussions that continue to ripple throughout the country; RSVP required: https://dc.alumni.columbia.edu/carolsanger

While we are working with the German-American Heritage Foundation for a great event this Fall, they have graciously invited us to join them at their special Classical music concert this Thursday, April 13 at 6:30 PM:

Karlsruhe Concert Duo
at Die Vereinigte Kirche/The United Church

Tickets: https://gahmusa.org/product/karlsruhe-concert-duo-performance-on-april-13-at-630-pm/

Reinhard Armleder and Dagmar Hartmann will play a selection of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Frédéric Chopin, and the 20th century Argentine composer and inventor of nuevo tango Astor Piazzolla. Enjoy a fantastic musical fusion that brings together the great masters of the 19th century with Piazzolla’s modern tango creations that blend traditional tango tunes with classical elements and jazz.

Join fellow alumni and our great friends from MIT, Harvard, and Yale as we gather to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in style at Mission Dupont DC; March 17, 2023 @6:00PM; RSVP here: https://dc.alumni.columbia.edu/stpatrickwithivy