Participants include
Debra Moskovits, Vice President of Science and Education at the Field Museum in Chicago;
Joyce Berry, Emeritus Dean at the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University; and
Jackie Roberts ’89 M.E.M. ’89 M.B.A., the Chief Sustainability Officer at The Carlyle Group and former Executive for the Environmental Defense Fund.
The discussion will be moderated by
Margaret H. Marshall ’76 LAW, a former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation. Marshall, who was the first woman to serve as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts court, wrote more than 300 opinions, including the 2003 decision that legalized gay marriage in the state.
The discussion,
which will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Burke Auditorium, is open to the public.
“As women aspiring to make positive social impacts, it is crucial that we have role models to whom we can look to in our work. Each of our panelists sets such an example,” said
Frances Sawyer ’12 B.A. ’15 M.F., one of the course organizers. “Each of our speakers has broken new ground for women in their profession and is the first woman to tackle their leadership position within their organization. Their tenacity and accomplishment provides a needed and welcome model.”
Yale Environmental Women, a student interest group that explores the roles women play in the environmental movement, will host a post-event discussion for students at 7:30 p.m. in the Knobloch Environment Center.
“Our fundamental aim at F&ES is to train the next generation of environmental leaders, but we have to realize that women are still underrepresented at the highest levels in many professional fields,” said Dean Crane. “We wanted to explore this issue as part of this course. And we couldn’t have found a better group of professionals to address this critical issue through the lens of their own personal experiences and extraordinary achievements.”
The “Environmental Leadership” course
was designed in tandem with another new course — “
Structuring Success: Skills and People Required to Convert Social Ideas into Positive Community Reality,” taught by Dean Crane and
Christopher Glenn Sawyer — which teaches students how to take their vision and values and achieve lasting social change.