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WELCOME NEW TRUSTEES Alexis Hunter P’25

Alexis Hunter has been a part of Allen-Stevenson for the past seven years since her son, Miles (6th Grade), enrolled in Kindergarten. She is a lawyer for HSBC, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. At HSBC, Alexis serves as an Associate General Counsel in the Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement Group within the U.S. Legal Department. In this role, she manages complex litigations and significant regulatory and law enforcement inquiries and

conducts internal investigations, all in support of HSBC’s global businesses and functions. Before joining HSBC, Alexis spent several years in private practice at two international law firms and as a state and federal prosecutor in New York and California, respectively.

Alexis received her B.A., with honors, from Brown University in Environmental Studies and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. She grew up in Oakland, California but has long considered New York City her home. Alexis and Miles reside in Harlem.

Alexis and Miles

Reed Katz ‘03

A. Reed Katz, class of 2003, recently joined the Allen-Stevenson Board as President of the Alumni Council. He has been an active member of the Alumni Council since he graduated 20 years ago. He is an Executive Director at JPMorgan Private Bank where he is responsible for providing wealth management solutions for ultra-high net worth families, foundations, and endowments. He has a particular focus working with hedge fund principals and corporate executives.

Reed received his B.A. from Bucknell University and attended Poly Prep for high school. He lives on the Upper West Side with his wife, Caroline, and their twin boys, Graham and Oliver.

Graham, Reed, Caroline and Oliver

Blair Klaff P’29, ‘24

Blair Klaff has been volunteering for various not-for-profit organizations in Manhattan for most of the last decade. At Allen-Stevenson, she was a library volunteer from 2015 to 2019, a class representative and welcoming and hospitality PA coordinator since 2019. These past few years, Blair has been a tour guide for prospective families where she has enthusiastically shared her passion for the Allen-Stevenson community. Blair continues to give back on the development and enrollment committees as a Board Member at Surprise

Lake Camp, where she spent several summers as a counselor as a teenager. She served on the Parents’ Association at Temple Emanu-El Nursery School for six years until 2020. At the Hospital for Special Surgery, Blair is a member of the Pediatric Council, which is responsible for the annual benefit to support the Lerner Children’s Pavilion. Prior to volunteering and being a full-time mother of two boys, Blair was a Buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue from 2005 until 2011. Blair started her career in Investment Banking at JP Morgan in Leverage Finance. She has a Bachelor’s of Science from the Binghamton University School of Management where she graduated summa cum laude.

When Blair isn’t volunteering, you can find her strolling on the Upper East Side with Brooklyn (the family’s cavapoochon), cooking, obsessively reading medical journals and historical fiction, enthusiastically cheering for her boys (Owen in 2nd Grade and Blake in 7th Grade) on the sidelines or spending quality time with her wonderful family on Long Island.

Blake, Blair, Josh and Owen

Heather McAuliffe P’28 Michael Schrieber P’27

Heather McAuliffe joined the Allen-Stevenson community in September 2019 when her twin sons, Lachlan and Hugh, started Kindergarten, now in Third Grade. She grew up in New York City, in the same neighborhood where she now lives with her husband, Philippe, and their three children.

Heather has had a long career in marketing communications. Until 2015, she was at J.Crew Group helping to grow its domestic presence and global footprint. During her 13 years with the company, J.Crew grew into an omnichannel operation and expanded globally. She was instrumental in the launch of Madewell, J.Crew Bridal, crewcuts, and other smaller businesses and initiatives under the JCG umbrella, as well as participated in many historical moments, including inaugurations, fashion weeks, and award shows. Earlier in her career, Heather worked at the fashion communications agency, Harrison & Shriftman, and eventually headed the Fashion and Beauty division, working with high-end clients and events across luxury goods in fashion, beauty, and retail.

Beyond A-S, Heather is involved with several philanthropic initiatives prioritizing urban green space and children's needs. She has been active with the Central Park Conservancy since 2015 and serves on the Board of the Women's Committee of the Conservancy, where she chairs several committees and, until recently, was chair of their Playground Partners Committee. Outside of Central Park, Heather has also been on the Pediatric Support Committee at New York-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital since 2013 and volunteers with their Child-Life Services Division. In addition, Heather is on the Board of the Quogue Junior Theater Troupe, a professional youth theater program in Quogue, NY, and previously chaired the children's local summer program, Junior Sports.

During her family's time at A-S, Heather has been an involved parent participating in admissions events, engaged directly with prospective parents during the pandemic, volunteers in the Library, and now is a third-grade class parent. Her daughter, Chloe, began her freshman year at the Groton School this fall. Heather attended Chapin, Miss Porter's School and later the University of Vermont and the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. She holds a B.A. in Art History and a minor in Spanish.

In her free time, Heather, together with her family, is an avid traveler. In addition, Heather loves sports, actively plays tennis, skis, and enjoys long-distance running in Central Park. She recently completed her first New York City Marathon to raise money for Central Park. Michael Schrieber is a Managing Partner at Cassena Care, a healthcare organization, which owns and operates fifteen skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities throughout the five boroughs, Long Island and Connecticut. Michael is also involved in the daily operations of a pharmacy, consulting firm, home care agency, outpatient rehabilitation facilities, and staffing companies. The overall size of the companies manages 6,000+ patients’ lives in addition to 10,000 employees.

Since the onset of COVID-19, Michael took the lead alongside the corporate Medical and Clinical team to direct, create, and write the strategies, policies and procedures pertaining to the ongoing regulations and directives rolled out by: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health), and New York State Governor’s Office. With healthcare policies and regulations continuing to change, Michael has become the liaison between Cassena and the above organizations.

Michael serves on the board of a number of health care organizations, as well as being on the board of The Business of Sports School (BOSS), which is a small Career & Technology Education (CTE) public high school designed in partnership with the New York City Department of Education, New Visions for Public Schools, and F·E·G·S Health and Human Services System that opened in September 2009.

Since the 2018-2019 school year, with a COVID pause, Michael was able to integrate the Upper Division of Allen-Stevenson with one of his facilities, Upper East Side Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, which is two blocks away from the schoolhouse. An inter-generational program was developed where students would interact with the Facility’s residents where stories would be exchanged, histories shared and friendships forged. This program continues through today.

Michael received his BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan and MBA, MPA, MPH from New York University. He lives in Tribeca with his son Andrew, who is currently in 4th Grade, his partner Jennifer and her daughter Shannon age 14, who attends Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

Michael and Andrew

Philippe, Hugh, Chloe, Heather and Lachlan

Andrew S. Willis P’21, P’24

Andrew serves on both for profit and philanthropic boards. In addition, to Allen-Stevenson, he has served as Co-chair of the Montefiore Einstein Council from 2011-2021, and on the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program Advisory Board at Columbia Business School from 2019-present. He also serves on the Board of Advisors at Georgetown McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC, and as an advisor/board member for several startups in technology, education, healthcare and biopharma.

Andrew co-founded a healthcare technology company, Crossix Solutions, in late 2004 to bring technology-enabled, privacy-safe data and analytics offerings to healthcare, marketing and media customers. He joined at the company’s inception, assisting in writing the business plan, raising capital from outside investors, and operationalizing from start up to fast growing business with hundreds of employees, and ultimately led a process resulting in sale of the company in November 2019 to Veeva Systems (VEEV). He continued as EVP while a part of Veeva completing his commitment in November 2021.

Andrew started Crossix with a client from his prior career in Investment Banking, most recently at NM Rothschild in London where he helped to establish a Private Finance Group in Europe. Andrew joined Rothschild from the Private Finance team at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York. He initially joined Credit Suisse First Boston from Columbia Business School in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group.

Originally from Portland, ME, Andrew has a passion for all things Boston sports, and has worked hard to achieve family unity in this regard. He received his B.S.B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University, his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. Andrew lives in NYC with his lovely wife Bethan, originally from England, sons Oliver (Packer Collegiate ’25, A-S ‘21) and Henry (A-S ‘24), and cavapoo Wellington.

Henry, Oliver, Bethan and Andrew

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2022-23

Executive Committee Metin Negrin, President Ronald S. Rolfe ’60, President Emeritus Alexander Klabin, Vice President & Treasurer Rashida La Lande Duncan Lyon, Head of School Jay Wilkins

Kerry-Ann Evans-Thompson* Kerianne Flynn Aryn Grossman Alexis Hunter Lauren Irwin Chris Joes Monica Keany Blair Klaff A. Reed Katz '03* Cameron Koffman '12 Colm MacMahon Heather McAuliffe Amy Peck Anupama Poole Audrey Rasch Ian Schrager Michael Schrieber Thomas Uger Andy Willis Dr. Christian Chung, Advisory

* member ex officio

Trustees Emeriti Marian R. Bicks Jane Phillips Donaldson Richard N. Foster D. Ross Hamilton John J. Hannan Susan B. Hirschhorn E. William Judson Robert J. Katz George A. Kellner Robert Liberman '58 Thomas H. Lister Peter deF. Millard Richard C. Perry '70 Joe L. Roby Lisa Pagliaro Selz Andrew Steffan Leonard A. Wilf

Hudson (Kindergarten) and Thomas (TJ) McManus ‘95

Fisher (Kindergarten) and Mickey (6th Grade) Peck Benjamin (2nd Grade) and Owen (Kindergarten) Braun

Andrew (Kindergarten) and Anthony (5th Grade) Pierre Joseph (3rd Grade) and Gabriel (Kindergarten) Edelstein

Benjamin (Kindergarten) and Maxwell (4th Grade) Siegel

Nayel (Kindergarten) and Faris (2nd Grade) Sultan Wyatt (Kindergarten) and Phoenix (4th Grade) Utsch Ryan (Kindergarten) and Gavin (2nd Grade) Weinstein

Romina Arciniega

Romina Arciniega is delighted to join the Allen-Stevenson community as a third-grade teacher and member of the A-S Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Committee. With a B.A. in Environmental Science from the University of San Francisco and a Master’s Degree in Teaching from Reach Institute For School Leadership, Romina taught 4th and 6th Grade in her native San Francisco for the past eight years. In her free time, Romina enjoys traveling, Solidcore, SoulCycle, time with friends and family, and exploring the outdoors (Romina and her boyfriend Oliver have a goal to visit every national park in the United States). Being new to New York, Romina would love any recommendations the A-S community has to offer!

Thomas Brill

Thomas Brill is thrilled to be a new member of the first-grade team and the larger A-S community. Previously, Thomas taught 6th Grade History for three years at Endeavor Middle School in Brooklyn. A New York native, Thomas also taught Kindergarten at The International School of Brussels in Belgium and 5th Grade at Trinity School for Children in Tampa, FL. Thomas holds a Bachelor’s in Education from The University of Tampa and a Master’s in Teaching from Relay Graduate School of Education. While at The University of Tampa, Thomas played on the Men’s Lacrosse team—he will be coaching the A-S Lacrosse team this spring! He also currently serves as the Goalie Director for 2Way Lacrosse in Greenwich, CT. In his free time, Thomas enjoys traveling, surfing, reading, and training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Emma.

Touria Ghaffari

Touria Ghaffari has a B.A. in International Affairs and a Master’s Degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. With over a decade of teaching experience in New York City schools, Touria began by teaching humanities at the Beekman School in Manhattan, in addition to teaching French, U.S. Government, and Economics. Subsequently, she was an English teacher and ENL Coordinator for The Equality Charter School in the Bronx for four years. Touria moved to the U.S. eleven years ago from Iran, where she taught college-level English. Here at Allen- Stevenson, she is a long-term maternity-leave teacher for 6th Grade English teacher, Ms. Lambe. In her free time, Touria loves to read, travel, go for long walks, or visit museums, and she highly recommends reading the book, “I’m OK, You’re OK,” by Dr. Thomas Harris.

Casey Gise

Casey Gise is excited to have recently joined AllenStevenson’s Health Office as our School Nurse. Previously, Casey was across the street at Lenox Hill Hospital where she worked for the past three years as a registered nurse caring for mothers and newborns. A native of Southampton, NY, Casey is a graduate of Adelphi University, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She loves traveling, reading, going to the beach, and spending time with family and friends.

Vanesa Gutiérrez

Vanesa Gutiérrez was born in Madrid, Spain, where she earned her Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics to Language Teaching and completed Ph.D. courses in Didactics of Languages and Literature. When she graduated, Vanessa began teaching Spanish as a second language in Madrid, teaching summers in Singapore and Portugal. In 2013, Vanesa moved to the U.S. and taught Spanish at independent schools in Nevada and Virginia. During that time she attended conferences and workshops on Comprehensible Input and TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) to continue learning about Second Language Teaching and Learning. Vanesa strongly believes that everyone is capable of learning a second language through compelling and engaging stories. In her free time, Vanesa enjoys running long distances, learning languages, and spending time with her cats.

Jordan Henry

Jordan Henry is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education and a Master of Education in Transformative Education with a concentration in social justice and equity. Jordan taught Kindergarten for one year and 2nd Grade for five years in Cincinnati, Ohio, prior to joining the first-grade teaching team at Allen-Stevenson. His interests in education include antiracist teaching and learning and inclusive classrooms. Jordan is a part of the Learning for Justice Elementary Cohort and serves as a book reviewer for the Center for Anti-Racist Education. Jordan also enjoys SoulCycle, Barry’s Bootcamp, and exploring New York City, and is honored to teach First Grade at The Allen-Stevenson School, where there are many ways to be a boy.

Maya Liran

Allen-Stevenson’s new Kindergarten Associate Teacher, Maya Liran, supports all three kindergarten classrooms. A native of New York’s Upper West Side, Maya obtained her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology with a focus on child development. Maya later attended NYU School of Medicine, interested in a career in pediatrics. However, after three years, she switched gears to pursue a career in education. Maya has previously worked in both pre-K and kindergarten, but her passion for kindergarten-aged children is what brought her to A-S. In her free time, Maya is training for her first marathon! She also loves to paint, spend time with her beloved goldendoodle, and is learning to play the ukulele.

Elizabeth (Beth) McLaughlin

Beth McLaughlin is honored to be serving as Allen-Stevenson’s first full-time psychologist. She holds a B.A. from Yale University in Psychology, an M.S. from Teachers College in Learning Disabilities, and a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, CUNY, in School Psychology. Following a number of full and part-time learning specialist positions at Sacred Heart, Marymount, The American School in Madrid, Dalton, and The School at Columbia, Beth has most recently served as the Upper School Learning Specialist and Psychologist at Buckley for the past ten years. Beth is a strong proponent of single-gender education. She especially enjoys working with boys and their families and teachers to help them embrace the full depth and breadth of their social and emotional lives. Beth loves to travel and recently spent a week eating olives near Kalamata, Greece. In her spare time, she loves to read, knit, and play with her dogs, Coco and Rue. She also competes in triathlons and recently finished 7th in her age group at the 2022 New York City Triathlon in July.

Ingrid Menéndez

Ingrid Menendez is our newest member of the Art and Woodshop team. A native of Venezuela, Ingrid began teaching at Allen-Stevenson as a substitute Spanish teacher. With her Master’s Degree in Art from Queens College, Ingrid’s artwork has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums. Prior to joining A-S, Ingrid taught art for many years at other New York City independent schools. In her free time, Ingrid loves meditating, singing, spending time with her daughter and friends, and, of course, creating art!

Olivia Moores

Olivia Moores joins AllenStevenson as an Upper Division Learning Specialist with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Education (Concentration in Elementary Education Licensure) and a Master’s Degree in Special Education. Olivia has had the opportunity to work with many grade levels in a variety of settings, including general education, special education, and sheltered English immersion. Previously, Olivia taught fifth-grade math and science, and she is a new and passionate educator focused on creating strong interpersonal bonds with her students. Her approach focuses on educating the whole child by providing them with a space to take risks and grow in both their strengths and weaknesses. Having recently moved to New York City from Beverly, Massachusetts, Olivia is excited to be closer to her grandparents in Long Island. Outside of school, Olivia enjoys good food, live music, and spending time with the people she cares about.

Lynda Rivers

Lynda Rivers is excited to join Allen-Stevenson’s Science & Engineering team, where she is teaching 2nd and 5th-grade science. A native of Massachusetts, Lynda lived in L.A. for 20 years before moving to NYC, where she has taught for the past eight years. Lynda has an MFA in non-fiction writing and a Master’s Degree in Childhood Education and in Special Education. She has completed graduate-level coursework in science at NYU as part of the Environmental Conservation Education graduate program. Outside of school, Lynda loves Wordle, kayaking, sailing, and being outdoors. Lynda enjoys teaching science because “it is where facts and imagination come together!”

Chloe Stiffle

Chloe Stiffle is energized by and committed to nurturing the curiosity and passion of her 6th and 7th Grade American History students and her 7th Grade Advisory. Chloe joins us after four years of teaching high school A.P. United States Government and Politics, Economics, and American History in both the Bronx and Philadelphia. Chloe earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Colgate University where she double-majored in History and Educational Studies. Immediately following graduation, Chloe attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and attained her Master of Science in Teaching Secondary Social Studies. In her free time, Chloe enjoys live music, traveling, reading, running, spending time with family and friends, and hiking the Colorado 14ers.

Tricia Zephyr

Tricia Zephyr is Allen- Stevenson’s newest addition to the Kindergarten team. With a Bachelor’s and Master's Degree in Literature from Queens College, Tricia plans on completing her second Master's in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, in the near future. A New York native, Tricia has spent her entire teaching career at independent schools, including Trevor Day School, Williamsburg Northside, and most recently, The School at Columbia, where she taught for six years. Her experience ranges from Kindergarten to 3rd Grade. Tricia continues to be captivated by the exponential growth and learning that occur in early childhood and enjoys instilling and preserving the magic of learning in all her students. In her free time, Tricia enjoys exercising, laughing, reading, podcasts, both cooking and dining out, and opportunities for adventures.

RECENT RETIREMENTS

At the end of the 2021-22 school year, the school said farewell to these longtime faculty and staff members who have touched the lives of so many generations of Allen-Stevenson boys. Thank you for sharing your talents, wisdom and kindness.

Rob McCallum

Ray Seeback Anne Meyer

Michael Schwartzman