PhD Student
Yale School of the Environment
State: CT
(w) (614) 572-5266
About
Karam Sheban is PhD student at the Yale School of the Environment, where he received a Master's in Forestry in 2020. In addition to his academic work, he spent three years as an AmeriCorps volunteer and two years as the Director of Sustainable Forestry at Rural Action, a nonprofit organization in Athens, Ohio. He directed a team of staff and AmeriCorps; planned workshops and conferences; conducted landowner site visits; wrote forest product management plans; build strategic partnerships across the Appalachian region; and helped in the design and implementation of a third-party certification system for the sustainable cultivation of forest crops called Forest Grown Verification. In this capacity Karam worked with regional forest farming technical support groups and universities, including the the Appalachian Forest Farmer Coalition, the National Agroforestry Center, Virginia Tech University, Penn State University, North Carolina State University, the Association for Temperate Agroforestry, and more. At Yale, Karam is studying sustainable forest management and temperate agroforestry systems, and in addition to his doctoral work serves as the Director of the Northeast Forest Farmers Coalition, an initiative that was created in 2021 with SARE funding.
Projects
| LNE23-469 | A Three-Pronged Strategy to Equitably Provide Planting Stock to Forest Farmers: Propagation Training, Seed Exchange, and Working with Wild Harvesters |
| LNE21-423 | The Northeast Forest Farmers Coalition: Building a Community of Practice |
| GNE19-221 | Importance of Environmental Factors on Plantings of Wild-Simulated American Ginseng |