Ferentz, ’94, is Saybrook College Dean at Yale University. He has worked as the Director of the Center for Cultural Engagement at the Catholic University of America (CUA), Director of the Davis Center at Williams College, and as a professor in the Literary Studies Program at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts.  He has also served as a faculty member in the History and Social Sciences Department at Georgetown Day School. He earned a BA in English literature from Queens College and a PhD in African-American studies from Yale. He received a Mellon Fellowship and a Leadership Alliance Fellowship. He published a memoir, Songs in the Key of My Life, in 2007.