New Trustees
Nina Cheigh Dr. Cheigh earned her Doctorate of Pharmacy degree from the University of Illinois. After completing her residency at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, she worked as a clinical pharmacist and assistant professor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr. Cheigh then completed a Fellowship of Teaching Excellence at the University of Illinois Medical Center and became an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, spending most of her career in academia and higher medical education. She received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year award at the College of Pharmacy, and has published multiple book chapters in pharmacy textbooks, as well as numerous peer-reviewed journals. After moving to Rye, Dr. Cheigh worked as a contributing editor for The Medical Letter, Inc., which is known to be the only unbiased publication of pharmaceutical use. Currently, she is a personal health advisor, working with clients one-on-one to focus on lifestyle and nutrition to help prevent chronic disease and reduce medication use. She has given numerous wellness presentations and has been interviewed on both radio and television. Dr. Cheigh and her husband, Jon, have three children at RCDS: Justin (Class of 2020), Andrew (Class of 2023), and Emily (Class of 2025). She has served as a class liaison and volunteered at various school events.
Blanca Hirani Ms. Hirani was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. She holds a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Universidad del Rosario in Bogota, Colombia. She moved to New York City with her husband, Sunil, in 1994 and worked in the trading of Eurobonds at Vectormex, a Mexican Private Banking firm in New York. Ms. Hirani then worked at Thomson Reuters in the Latin American Investor Relations division. She later co-founded i-advize Corporate Communications, LLC, a consulting firm that handles the financial communication of Latin-American-based, publicly traded companies in the US and in Latin America. Ms. Hirani sat on the Board of the YWCA of Greenwich and twice co-chaired the Persimmon Ball, one of the primary fundraisers of the organization. She has been involved in not-for-profit organizations such as Americares, for which she helped organized the first event dedicated to raising funds for mobile clinics in the slums of Mumbai, India. Since 2010, Ms. Hirani has organized the Welcoming Reception for Newly Admitted Students into the incoming class of Washington University in St. Louis. At RCDS, Ms. Hirani co-chaired the 2013-2014 Book Fair and the 2015 Spring Benefit. She is currently a member of the Parents Committed to Diversity Committee and a Grade 6 Liaison. Ms. Hirani and her husband, Sunil, live in Greenwich with their three children: Camila (Class of 2019), Maya (Class of 2022), and Sameer (Class of 2024).
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