Stewart Young
Stewart Young
He is a Selectman and Chairman of the finance committee of the Town of Gosnold, MA (the Elizabeth Islands) and is on the board of the Gosnold Community Fund. He is an Overseer of the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole and is an honorary trustee of the Cushing/Whitney Library at Yale Medical School. He served six years on the board of the Codman Community Farm in Lincoln, MA and was a soccer coach for four years with Lincoln Youth Soccer. He also served on the board of the Arthur D. Little Alumni Association. Since 2015 he has served as the President of the Board of Trustees of the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum.
Stewart has spent most of his summers in the Buzzards Bay area. As a teenager he raced 110s and Herreshoff 12s in Marion. He attended Hurricane Island Outward Bound School and was a sailing instructor at Noble and Greenough School Day Camp. He has extensive cruising experience around the Cape and islands, along the coast of Maine, down the inland waterway, and in the Exuma Islands. Currently he spends his summers on Naushon Island and enjoys fishing along the Elizabeth Islands.
Stewart has a BA in biology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He also spent a year at the University of Louvain in Belgium and has taken doctoral level courses at the Boston University School of Public Health.
