Ford School Fall Launch 2025 | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Type: School event

Ford School Fall Launch 2025

Speaker

Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Date & time

Aug 26, 2025, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Location

Photo of the upper half of the northwest corner of Weill Hall

Students, faculty, and staff: Join Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes and the entire Ford School community in celebrating the beginning of the year and welcoming both old and new faces to Weill Hall.

Food and festivities kick off at 4:00pm in the courtyard, with remarks by the dean at 5pm

Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Faculty Expert

Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes

Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy; Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy; University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Sociology
Watkins-Hayes is an internationally-recognized scholar and expert widely credited for her research at the intersection of inequality, public policy, and human service institutions, with a special focus on HIV/AIDS; poverty; and race, class, and gender studies. Dr. Watkins-Hayes has published three books, numerous articles in journals and edited volumes, and pieces in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Chicago Magazine.