Meet the New Members of the Board of Directors
Richard Lee is the managing director of OR&L Commercial, a regional commercial real estate and development firm he founded more than 20 years ago. Over the years he has been a member of many local and national boards, both charitable and business related, and currently sits on the Greater New Haven Goodwill EasterSeals Board. A graduate of the University of Vermont with a bachelor's degree in Economics, Rich is an avid skier, golfer and biker. Rich served on the Building Committee for the Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building. He lives in Madison with his wife Amy and their daughters, Ally, a freshman at George Washington University, Josie, a ninth grader at Choate, and Foote student Charlie, in MAG.
Yanyun Wu is an associate professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. She was born and raised in China. Yan was on the school board for the Southern Connecticut Chinese School and is also a member of the Woodbridge Summer/Fall 2012
Board of Education and that Board's finance committee, and the American Society for Apheresis. She has taken a leadership role in Foote’s Chinese New Year celebration and has attended one of the delegation dinners, serving as translator between Carol Maoz and the Yali Principal. Yan and her husband, Yi Zhou, have been Foote parents since September 2009. Their son Bryan graduated from ninth grade in June and is attending Choate; their daughter Alyssa is in eighth grade at Foote.
Kiran Zaman, originally from Pakistan, grew up in South Carolina. Her family returned to Pakistan when she was 14 years old. She acquired her bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and French and her master’s in Fine Arts, from Punjab University. She was professor of Modern Art at Fatima Jinnah Women’s University in Rawalpindi, and she taught French for several years at the Alliance Française in Rawalpindi. Kiran’s paintings have been exhibited and sold in many solo and group exhibitions. Apart from her career as an artist and teacher, she played the lead role in three Pakistani TV drama series. Upon returning to the United States in 2001, she relocated to New Haven where she taught French at Helene Grant School and the Yeshiva High School. She designed a curriculum at Helene Grant using art to teach French to children in kindergarten through sixth grade. She also was the manager and an educator
at the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden. Kiran and her husband, Sabooh S. Mubbashar, live in Woodbridge with their three children. Both sons are Foote students; Eesa is in third grade and Ehsaan is in MAG. Their daughter Yasmeena attends preschool in New Haven. Kiran is currently enrolled at Wesleyan University in the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies program.
Jaime Cole is co-president of the Parent Teacher Council. She grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut and lived in Chicago for several years while she attended The John Marshall Law School and her husband attended medical school. She was a lead articles editor of the John Marshall Law Review and afterward practiced law at a Chicago firm for nearly five years before returning to Connecticut. Her practice concentrated in labor and employment law and construction law. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of New Haven where she teaches courses in Equality and Employment Law. Of particular interest in her teaching are issues of equality in education. Jaime lives in North Haven with her husband Shawn, a Veterans Administration physician, and their children Nolan, a second grader at Foote, and daughter Mirabel who attends preschool in New Haven.
21