Assistant dean will work on diversity issues
Thomas Easley, an educator who has tackled diversity challenges in the academic classroom and on the stage, was recently appointed the assistant dean of community and inclusion at F&ES. Easley comes to Yale from North Carolina State University (NCSU), where he spent 13 years as the director of community diversity at the university’s College of Natural Resources. He has a master’s degree in forest genetics from Iowa State University and a doctorate of education from NCSU. At F&ES he will work with the entire community, guiding initiatives to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion across the school. That will include working to build a more diverse community of students, faculty, and staff through active recruitment and working with faculty on courses to expand materials for an increasingly diverse student body.
Sustainability initiative taps into Yale expertise
A new Connecticut initiative is bringing together tools and resources from across the state—including expertise from F&ES—to help the state’s cities and towns adopt more sustainable practices. Sustainable CT will make available best practices, peer learning, and certification opportunities to all municipalities. Brad Gentry, senior associate dean of professional practice at F&ES and codirector of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, is serving on Sustainable CT’s board of directors. The partnership, Gentry said, presents an opportunity to introduce state leaders to some of the F&ES-based programs and initiatives that are already promoting sustainable practices in New Haven and beyond—from the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology to the Quiet Corner Initiative, which promotes sustainable land management practices for neighbors of Yale-Myers Forest, located in northern Connecticut. “It’s examining how you can bring together networks of communities in a way that they can learn from each other and become more sustainable or resilient,” Gentry said.
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