Garth Ross

During four years at the helm, inaugural executive director Garth Ross helped define the mission of Yale Schwarzman Center as a center for student life and the arts that encourages social cohesion, creativity, and self-expression. Among the initiatives YSC launched under his leadership are a partnership with the Good Life Center, the Storyboard digital media collaboration platform, the Sessions program that gathers participants over a meal to connect and collaborate, and a programming model that invites the Yale community into the process of making culture. Ross will dedicate a portion of his time in 2022 to projects aimed at using the arts to enrich educational experiences at Yale and beyond through a fellowship that recognizes his achievement in launching YSC.