Clde Gay named as Harvard’s first Black print: 5 thgs to know

Contents:

• CLDE GAY ANNOUNC RACIAL-JTICE INIATIV
• MEET CLDE GAY’S HBAND DR CHRISTOPHER AFENDULIS
• CLDE GAY: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT
• WHO IS CLDE GAY MARRIED TO? PERSONAL LIFE EXPLORED AS HARVARD UNIVERSY APPOTS FIRST BLACK PRINT

CLDE GAY ANNOUNC RACIAL-JTICE INIATIV

As protts about racial equy ntue across the untry, Clde Gay, an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS), announced a seri of iativ to addrs racial and ethnic equaly—cludg faculty appotments and the addn of an associate an of diversy, cln, and belongg. “This moment offers a profound opportuny for stutnal change that should not and nnot be squanred, ” Gay wrote an email to the mp muny.

”On the amic si, Gay announced a reactivatn of the “clter hire” ethnicy, digeney, and migratn that origally lnched October 2019—part of FAS’s rponse to tense stunt tert , and prsure for, teachg and learng ethnic studi. Gay add that the Inequaly Ameri postdoctoral fellowship program will be expand om two fellows to appotment of the gural associate an, Gay said, will occur soon.

” The posn parallels the recently announced Universy-level chief diversy and cln ’s announcements do not exhst FAS’s new mments, Gay said. Gay announced the fall lnch of the Task Force on Visual Culture and Signage, led by an of arts and humani Rob Kelsey.

MEET CLDE GAY’S HBAND DR CHRISTOPHER AFENDULIS

Gay said the task force will nvene faculty, staff, and stunts “to nduct a prehensive study of our visual culture and articulate prcipl and rmed guil for evolvg the culture and imagery of the FAS.

)“The iativ are jt a startg place, ” Gay said.

Amid the news of Clde Gay beg named Harvard Universy’s new print, we learn more about her fay and hband Christopher C. “Wily admired higher tn lear” Clde Gay has been selected to be Harvard’s next lear and first Black print. DARK CHOCOLATE CONTAINS HEAVY METALS, STUDY CLAIMSPhoto by Er Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagWho is Clde Gay?

CLDE GAY: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT

Clde Gay, reportedly at the age of 52 or 53, is a polil scientist born Bronx, New York. Clde has served as Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS) sce 2018 and prevly was profsor of Ain and Ain-Amerin to know Clde Gay’s hbandChristopher C. Harvard Universy announced Thursday that Clde Gay will bee s next print.

Gay, who is currently the an of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc, will be the school’s first Black lear and the send woman ever to hold the posn when she tak over next are five thgs to know about the history-makg ’s the dghter of Haian immigrantsGay, 52, was born New York Cy, where her parents, Haian immigrants to the U. Gay spent much of her childhood first New York and then Sdi Arabia, where her father worked for the U. “My parents believed that tn opens every door, but of urse they gave me three optns: I uld bee an engeer, a doctor or a lawyer, which I’m sure that other kids of immigrant parents uld relate to, ” Gay said at an announcement ceremony on Thursday.

”Her ti to Harvard n epAfter receivg her bachelor’s gree enomics om Stanford 1992, Gay enrolled graduate school at Harvard, receivg her Ph. Gay was also appoted profsor of Ain and Ain Amerin Studi the followg year. Acrdg to Gay’s b on Harvard’s webse, she has “explored such topics as how the electn of mory officeholrs affects cizens’ perceptns of their ernment and their tert polics and public affairs; how neighborhood environments shape racial and polil attus among Black Amerins; the roots of petn and operatn between mory groups, wh a particular foc on relatns between Black Amerins and Latos; and the nsequenc of hog mobily programs for polil participatn among the poor.

WHO IS CLDE GAY MARRIED TO? PERSONAL LIFE EXPLORED AS HARVARD UNIVERSY APPOTS FIRST BLACK PRINT

”Gay, pictured here wh her hband, Chris Afendulis, will be Harvard's first Black lear. (Er Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Imag)Gay is ld by many of her lleagu...