By Melissa Noel· Updated December 16, 2022
Claudine Gay has been named Harvard University’s 30th president, the school announced Thursday. Gay, who has served as dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 2018, is the first Black person and only the second woman to be named president of the university.
Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, graduated from Stanford before earning her Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 1998,
