28 Apr New HGSE Dean Nonie Lesaux Faces a New World of Education. Faculty Say She’s Ready.
The Harvard Gazette April 25, 2025 By Mackenzie L. Boucher Nonie K. Lesaux had been a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than two decades — nearly her entire professional career — by the time she was named dean in March. A scholar of early childhood education and literacy, Lesaux’s extensive scholarship and minimal political engagement has allowed the new dean and the education school to fly under the radar amid an escalating campaign by the Trump administration to defund...