New Trustees The Durham Academy Board of Trustees Welcomes Five New Members
Lee Barnes ’86 is president of Family Fare Convenience Stores. He is secretary of the board of trustees at Appalachian State University and has served on the board of visitors at the N. C. Central University School of Business. A graduate of Appalachian State University, he earned an M.B.A. from Duke University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Fielding Graduate University. He is the father of Trey ’17; Matthew, a rising 11th-grader; and Michael, a rising ninth-grader.
Roger Brooks ’80 practiced law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. He took early retirement to pursue an interest in First Amendment law that was first kindled reading early Supreme Court opinions in a history class at Durham Academy. While living in New York, he served on the board of trustees at the Hackley School. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia School of Law and earned an M.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.Div. from Regent College, Vancouver, B.C. He is the father of five children, three of whom graduated from Hackley School, as well as DA students Ann ’20 and Roger ’23.
Cynthia King practiced law for 11 years in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. She is a graduate of the University of Florida and Duke University School of Law. She has been an active Durham Academy volunteer, including serving as secretary of Parents Council, and will join the Board of Trustees in an ex officio capacity as president of Parents Council. She is the mother of Isabella, a former DA student, and Julia ’19.
Kavita Nayar is an investment manager at DUMAC Inc. She worked for 11 years at Goldman Sachs in London and New York and was a vice president in Goldman Sachs Asset Management in New York. She is a graduate of Stanford University and earned a master’s degree from Yale University. She serves on Durham Academy’s Finance Committee. She is the mother of Arav Goldstein ’27 and Maya Goldstein ’27.
Lauren Whitehurst has worked with Boston Consulting Group in Chicago and Atlanta and has been executive director of the Center for Consulting Excellence at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She is a graduate of Amherst College and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She has previously served as a DA trustee, led the committee that produced the school’s 2015 Strategic Plan and served on DA’s Finance, Diversity and Trusteeship committees. She is the mother of Emma ’20 and Jack ’20.
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