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New Director to Lead 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm

The 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm in Bloomfield is very pleased to announce the appointment of Jack K. Hasegawa, of Woodbridge as its new Executive Director. Mr. Hasegawa has had a long career in educational administration, board development, diversity training and fund development management. He recently retired as Education Manager of the Bureau of Teaching and Learning at the Connecticut State Department of Education, where he also served as Chief of the Bureau of Educational Equity and Coordinator of a special team addressing the Sheff /O’Neill Agreement on civil rights and racial inequities in the right to education.

Prior to his work in educational administration, Mr. Hasegawa spent more than ten years as chief executive of Dwight Hall at Yale University, where he managed a major endowment campaign to fund student service and action projects. He has also been active as a community organizer in Atlanta, Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood and in low income neighborhoods in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan.

According to Tony Drapelick, the 4-H Education Center’s board chair, “We are delighted to welcome Jack Hasegawa as our new Executive Director. He brings a great breadth of knowledge and expertise, a deep commitment to experiential education and a long family history of farming.”

Mr. Hasegawa will be the Center’s first full-time Executive Director, assuming the position held for the past year by interim Executive Director, Cathy J. Cohen. Through a grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the farm’s Board of Directors worked with Third Sector New England to facilitate the executive leadership change.

For more than thirty-five years, the 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm has introduced young people in the greater Hartford area and surrounding towns, to agricultural science and farm-based learning. Each year, more than 10,000 children attend hands-on programs designed to enhance the State Science Frameworks. Adults and children are invited to visit the farm year-round.