Sabbi Gale-Donnelly

Sabbi Gale-Donnelly (she/they) is a third-year who studies Philosophy and Comparative Literature. She focuses in part on how theories of language can be utilized to measure the strength of, and effectively bolster, systems of governance. Sabbi has worked in government at the state and federal level, including most recently as an intern to the office of U.S. Senator Gillibrand, where she developed recommendations for the improvement of health insurance accessibility for long-term vector-borne disease patients. They are a Lyme disease activist and member of the ProjectLyme Emerging Leaders’ Board, and have worked on health policy from a variety of perspectives, including with the Connecticut Reproductive Rights Caucus, and as a policy intern for Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Sabbi serves as a Writing Partner and research assistant, and is currently engaged on two book projects which discuss contemporary applications of Hannah Arendt’s perspective on friendship, and relationship arrangements in late-stage capitalism, respectively. She is also a Center Head of Yale Policy Institute’s Civic Policy Center, where she leads the Dialogues of Resilience project, which aims to measure how pluralistic dialogue forms improve social cohesion and interpersonal trust.