Lindsay Crum

Lindsay provides strategic direction for streamlined sustainability operations and helps identify the economic, social, and environmental benefits of Yale’s sustainability projects and programs. She manages Yale’s annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory with The Climate Registry and supports efforts to address Scope 3 emissions. Lindsay is also actively involved in the Ivy Plus Sustainability Collaborative, Northeast Recycling Council, Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, and in other sustainable materials management initiatives. Lindsay is a Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment, and co-teaches a course entitled “Sustainability Implementation: Change Management in Institutional Settings.”

 

Prior to her current role, Lindsay served as Interim Co-Director and Operations & Volunteer Program Director at New Haven Farms. Earlier in her career, she worked at Yale University Press as a Senior Acquisitions Administrator and as Managing Editor for the Yale Drama Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

Lindsay holds a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment and is a LEED AP BD+C. She has held leadership roles including Executive Co-Chair of the Ivy Plus Sustainability Collaborative and Chair of the Reuse Work Group for the Northeast Recycling Council, and has served on the Board of the Connecticut Recyclers Coalition. Areas of expertise include reuse, recycling, upcycling, composting, procurement, sustainability metrics, GHG inventories and protocols, and LEED.