Josh Faires is the Assistant Director for First-Generation/Low-Income (FGLI) Student Success. They oversee FGLI Thrive, a peer-mentorship community for Yale’s FGLI undergraduates. Josh manages a team of FGLI Graduate & Undergraduate Mentors and FGLI Community Ambassadors, all directed towards engaging and uplifting FGLI Thrivers. They are also responsible for consolidating and disseminating Yale’s vast resources, programming, and knowledge to FGLI Thrivers, providing a central hub for FGLI students to connect to and effectively utilize Yale’s tools.
Before Yale, Josh worked at Princeton University, where they assisted in recruiting, sustaining, and guiding Princeton’s FGLI peer-mentorship community, the Scholars Institute Fellowship Program (SIFP). They hold a B.A. in Sociology and a certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University and an M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University.
Outside work, Josh enjoys dancing (Zumba/Latin/Hip-hop), reading, and playing video & board games. They also enjoy DIY construction & automation projects, following global pro-democracy news, and traveling to historic and natural wonders.