Tom Commander

Tom Commander is an undergraduate at Yale studying Environmental Studies and a Global Health Scholar at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is interested in sustainability, environmental factors of health, and natural resource management. He has experience conducting independent fieldwork as a fellow of the Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies, researching water security and illegal gold mining in Indigenous communities in the interior of Indonesian Borneo.

Tom also works as a research assistant in the REACH Lab at the Yale School of Public Health where he has been working on assessing community severance and environmental health in New Haven through advanced data analysis.

Additionally, Tom is a member of the Yale varsity sailing team and enjoys backpacking and ceramics.