Board of Trustees

2021 Board & Honorary Trustees

EXECUTIVES

Soledad Hurst, Chair

Soledad Hurst (Chair) is actively involved in a number of non-profit boards. In addition to Theatre Aspen, she is a member of the board of directors of Aspen Country Day School (Chair Emeritus), The Children’s Hospital of Colorado and Summit 54. Amongst Hurst’s previous boards are Finca International (including Chair of the Advisory Committee), Vanguard Advisory Board (Aspen Institute), Roundabout Theatre (NYC) and American Hospital of Paris (Foundation Board). Hurst started her career as a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell (NYC). In addition, she has served as Vice President of investment banking at Allen & Company (NYC) and was on-air, covering the New York Stock Exchange for Bloomberg Television. She founded and operated a summer camp for five years, is an avid cook and loves to write fiction. An avid traveler, she splits time between Aspen, NYC and Paris. She is married to Bob Hurst and is the proud mother of two teenagers and stepmother of two adult children. She is a graduate of University of Oregon (Summa Cum Laude) and Yale Law School.

Clare Evert-Shane, Vice-Chair

Juliet Shield-Taylor, Secretary

After years of participating in theater productions, Juliet received a BA from Bucknell University, and later studied acting in New York City.

In 1993 she moved to Aspen, authored a book about her grandfather, and has served on numerous community organizations including:

Board Member, Aspen Country Day School

Treasurer, Aspen Film Board of Trustees

Board Member, Starwood Homeowner’s Association,

and currently serves as Chair, Robins Foundation.

Juliet is a founding member of Norwich Partners, capitalized in 2003 and regarded as one of the top hotel developers in the USA. Norwich Partners places an emphasis on giving back to their communities, especially children’s charities.

Ali Phillips, Treasurer

Ali Flynn Phillips, Treasurer

Professional Bio

Ali is Executive Vice President & Partner of Obermeyer Wood Investment Counsel. In this role, she manages client relationships, working closely with individuals and multigenerational families, and advises on asset allocation and investment strategy. Ali is also a member of the Executive Committee, overseeing our operations and spearheading the firm’s strategic initiatives.

Ali has worked in the financial industry for over 25 years; prior to joining Obermeyer Wood in 2005, she worked at Salomon Brother and Goldman Sachs in Chicago, London and New York

Ali earned her BA, cum laude, from Middlebury College with honors in economics.

On a Personal Note

There’s a good chance you’ll find Ali doing something outdoors when she is not in the office or attending a Theatre Aspen performance. Whether it’s skiing, hiking, golfing, biking, traveling, or keeping up with her two middle school kids, she’s always on the move. After leaving the East Coast, she and her husband drove cross-country in an old Jeep Cherokee as they set out for California. They spent two months visiting mountain towns between Colorado and Canada and decided to give Aspen a try.

They haven’t left or regretted their decision since.

Acting Experience: None

BOARD & TRUSTEES

Alan Altman

A thespian, especially in musical theatre all his life, Alan Altman attended his first open call on Broadway for a leading role in “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown”. He assumed he would fit the role perfectly, as they were asking for a curly haired chap of about 5’8” with a mole on his back who could sing and act. When he arrived at the theatre, he found himself among 600 others who fit the exact description called for! It was at that very moment that he decided he’d better go to medical school. The good news was that being a practicing physician, especially a gynecologist and a well known international lecturer on Menopause and Female Sexual Function, necessitated a considerable amount of theatrical background and experience! So the theatre bug never left him and led him to join the Board of Theatre Aspen as soon as he settled in Aspen in 2005.

Lisa Baker

Michele Bass

Ms. Bass is a 30-year civil trial lawyer who has successfully litigated multi-million-dollar jury cases all over the country in state and federal courts. She is admitted to practice in California, Hawaii, and Colorado. Her practice has focused on recreational “Sport Torts” including both Plaintiff and Defense work involving personal injury, product liability and wrongful death cases arising from scuba diving and downhill skiing activities. She has argued and won appellate cases before the California and Colorado Courts of Appeal and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

She has enjoyed a fascinating career involving many international clients in this highly specialized area including: Aqua Lung, ScubaPro, Body Glove, Uwatec, Si Tech, The Aggressor Fleet, and Atlantis Submarines, Hawaii, LLC, and syndicates of Lloyd’s of London.

While defending SCUBA cases she dived with schools of hammerhead sharks in the Galapagos Islands, cage dived with Great White Sharks on Guadalupe Island, Mexico, done research in Maui on Humpback Whale behavior and dived on the Japanese Fleet sunk by the U.S. during WWII in “Truk Lagoon” in the South Pacific. She has taken many international depositions including on the beach in Aruba, Galapagos Islands, Puerto Rico, Munich, Paris, Edinburgh, and London.

Ms. Bass has lived in Aspen 25 years with her husband, Raifie Bass, and has two teen-age sons – both competitive Freeride Big Mountain Skiers.

Meredith Berman

Meredith Berman splits her time between New York City and Aspen, enjoying two great cities with her husband and her English Cream Retriever.

Meredith earned her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and received a Master’s in Education from Trinity College and a Master’s in Early Childhood Leadership from Bank Street College. Her career spans 20+ years in education, including running her own business which focused on educating children through cooking.

From a young age her parents instilled in her a love of culture which included theatre, music, art and travel. She is a volunteer with the Central Park Conservancy. Meredith enjoys hiking, yoga, skinning, running and skiing. When she is not outdoors she can be found playing cards, reading and cooking.

Karen Brooks

Ms. Brooks is one of the top Asia experts in the United States, with a long career in the region that includes teaching at universities, development work with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), policy‐making with the U.S. government, advisory work with Fortune 500 companies, and direct investing with U.S.‐based private equity and hedge funds.

Ms. Brooks had the honor of working for Madeline K. Albright and Condoleezza Rice in their barrier breaking roles as the first female Secretary of State and the first female National Security Advisor, respectively. During the Clinton and Bush administrations, she was a leading architect of U.S. Asia policy, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia. As Director for Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff at the White House, she advised the President of the United States and key cabinet members; negotiated key agreements on behalf of the President; coordinated policy among U.S. government agencies; and developed trade and other initiatives for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Important highlights of her tenure at the NSC included the signing of the U.S.‐Singapore Free Trade Agreement and the upgrading of U.S. defense partnerships with friends and allies in Asia.

Upon leaving the White House, Ms. Brooks founded an advisory services company to help American Fortune 500 companies succeed in Southeast Asia. Clients included Microsoft, Hewlett‐Packard, Johnson & Johnson, ExxonMobil, Mars, Inc. and other best‐in‐class companies. She now works with private equity giant TPG’s social impact fund, The Rise Fund, where she focuses on investments in education, renewable energy and healthcare. Ms. Brooks also provides critical operational support to portfolio companies, including bringing them into new markets. In that context, she recently co‐ founded and sits on the board of a new solar company in Indonesia, dedicated to reducing Indonesia’s dependence on fossil fuels.

Ms. Brooks graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University; holds a master’s degree from Cornell University; and attended the Manhattan School of Music’s Preparatory Division as an opera major and piano minor. She speaks four Asian languages and translated for Presidents Clinton and Bush, as well as numerous cabinet secretaries. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and a former high altitude mountain climber, who used her passion for climbing to raise money for cancer research through climbs in Alaska, Russia and the Himalayas.

Terri Caine

Terri Caine is the co-founder and Executive Director of Summit54, a local not-for-profit that provides educational opportunities to low-income children in the Lower Roaring Fork Valley. Prior to creation of Summit54 ten years ago, Terri was a top selling real estate broker in the Valley for a dozen years, following a successful marketing and public relations career as Communications Director at the Aspen Skiing Company after serving as PR Director for the Snowmass Resort Association. She moved to the Valley in 1984 as a television reporter for KCWS, a station that briefly covered Western Slope news.

David Chazen

David F. Chazen is a founding partner at Strategic Government Properties, a Chicago-based real estate investment company that specializes in the ownership of U.S. Government mission-critical security facilities.

David is a director of the Chazen Institute of Global Business at Columbia Business School. He also serves on the boards of High Jump Chicago and YPO Aspen. He received his B.S. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA from Columbia Business School. He lives in Chicago and Aspen and has two children, Jasper and Fiona. He has run 25 New York City Marathons and counting.

Tracy Eggleston

Tracy was raised in Palm Beach, FL, and moved to Aspen in 1994 after earning a degree in International Business from the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management. She and her husband, Bubba, are both realtors and are known as The Eggleston Team at Aspen Snowmass Sothebys.

Thoroughly engaged in the community and outdoor activities, she is passionate about the theater, music, art, and the culture offered in Aspen. Her mom was involved in the Florida Repertory Theatre and instilled a sense of commitment to the arts in Tracy.

Tracy’s involvement in Theatre Aspen started many moons ago when it once was known as Theatre in the Park. She continues to promote and admire the growth of this brilliant theatre. She specifically enjoys the creativity and fascinating people she has met and that the board has curated over the years. The arts and accessibility to all the programs in this town, combined with the beauty of the outdoors (being able to hike, ski, skin, play tennis, golf…) is why she can’t imagine living anywhere else.

She and Bubba reside in the West End and have two amazing children, Elle and Brett, both born and bred in Aspen!

Darlynn Fellman

Darlynn Fellman is originally from Council Bluffs, Iowa and called Omaha, Nebraska home for many years. After a brief stint at the University of Arizona where she spent more time in the theatre than in class, she married her husband of 51 years, Tom, in 1970.

Darlynn has two children: Louri who lives in Omaha, Ted, a public defender in Montana, and six grandchildren. Her husband promised her that as soon as the kids were out of the house they could move to Aspen, and she said it was about time in the ‘87/’88 season. Hearing someone mention the TA shows at lunch that year, she ran right over to learn more and has been involved in Theatre Aspen ever since.

Darlynn has seen Theatre Aspen through the many changes of the early years and has appeared onstage in I Hate Hamlet, and in the titular role of Slyvia. She is incredibly proud of how far Theatre Aspen has come in establishing itself in the Aspen Arts landscape and as someone who has loved the theatre all her life, never misses a chance to support TA in a coveted walk on role each summer.

Charlene Freedland

A native of Miami, Florida, Charlene Freedland has loved Musical Theater since her earliest memories and has applied that love in a variety of ways both on stage and behind the scenes. Prior to becoming a mother to two wonderful children, Charlene ran the marketing department for one of the largest contracting firms in South Florida. She has continued to serve on the Board of Directors for that company through the present day.

Her charity work has been primarily focused on two South Florida organizations. The Harvest Drive focuses on feeding families during the holidays and through her family’s efforts has been instrumental in growing the program from a local operation to enveloping most of Broward County.

Through the Rotary Club of Weston, her efforts regarding scholarships has been integral in ensuring countless students graduating from her community’s local high schools have the opportunity to continue their education by attending college.

Personally rewarding has been the time spent chairing the PTO and Booster Club at her children’s school to ensure the students and faculty have all the resources available to them.

Charlene is excited to bring her background to Theatre Aspen where she can apply her love of charity to her personal passion. She looks forward to helping Theatre Aspen continue its tremendous success and establish itself as the world class Theatre that we already know it has become.

Adam Frisch

Adam joined Theatre Aspen’s Board in the summer of 2020, where he serves on the Finance, Executive, and Long-Range Planning Committee, which he chairs. Adam served 8 years on the Aspen City Council; 4 of the years as Mayor Pro-Tem. From 2005 until 2011, he chaired the Financial Advisory Board for Pitkin County.

He is currently on the Finance Committee of Valley Settlement and has served on the Board of Trustees for the Aspen Art Museum and Aspen Youth Experience. Before moving to Aspen in 2003, Adam was a senior executive in the global financial markets. Mr. Frisch and his wife have two children.

Carol Goldstein

Carol Goldstein is a social coach for people on the autism spectrum. She uses her skills from being an organizational development consultant to bring strong coaching and workforce development to her clients. Prior to consulting, she served as both a Senior Consultant at Lee Hecht Harrison and as a Consultant/MBA advising at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. She served as Senior Vice President/Chief People Officer at Influence, a St. Louis e-commerce solutions provider, where she developed and implemented highly successful employee recruitment, retention and team building programs. During the launch of Sprint (wireless), Carol developed a company-wide team training program and served as Director of Marketing for St. Louis where she managed all advertising and public relations efforts. Prior to becoming an Organizational Development Specialist, Carol had over 15 years of experience in advertising, promotions and public relations working at firms including Shandwick USA, Bozell and Margie Korshak Associates. Carol is trained and certified by the Association of Psychological Type for Myers-Briggs personality type survey, 360 degree feedback sessions and conflict resolution models. She has extensive experience as both a business coach and career coach. Carol serves on the overseas committee for the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, the parent association for the Mary Institute Country Day school, as a child mentor to City Academy School and is an active volunteer for Lift for Life Gym (inner city youth rescue gym). In her free time, Carol likes to hike, practice pilates and spend as much time with her family at their home in Aspen. She has two children and a one eyed Brussels Griffon named Winkie (which is really her granddog).

Jeff Grinspoon

Jim Grusecki

Jim Grusecki is Chairman of Northern Builders, Inc., a real estate development & general contracting firm. As one of the firm’s two managing principals, Jim oversees strategic planning and development of Northern’s business opportunities. Jim’s tenure at Northern spans 50 years and has been instrumental in the company’s growth.

Jim is an active member of SIOR, AIRE, and on the Board of Advisors of Roosevelt University’s Chicago School of Real Estate. He currently serves as a Director of the First National Bank of Brookfield and is a Governing Member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Jim is a former board president of Victory Gardens Theater as well as a former director of Gottlieb Memorial Hospital.

With his wife Brenda, Jim administers their family foundation that funds education, the arts, and housing and social service initiatives and programs. The Gruseckis enjoy and support the many cultural opportunities that Chicago offers, and indulge in theater and music performance wherever and whenever their travels take them. Otherwise, Jim can be found fly fishing on the Roaring Fork River.

Arjun Gupta

Rachel Klausner

Rachel Klausner consults with nonprofits and foundations, bringing over 20 years of experience in strategic planning, program design, and organizational effectiveness. Rachel began her career at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, joining shortly after its inception. She is currently a Partner and on the board of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund. She has also served on the Board of Hidden Villa where she assisted with strategic planning, program planning, and board development. Rachel earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego and has Masters in Science degrees in Counseling Psychology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and Library and Information Science from the University of Washington.

Barbara Lee

Jennifer Moses

Jennifer Moses is a co-founder of UndauntedK12, a new organization whose mission is to deliver on the vision that America’s K12 public schools can and must make an equitable and just transition to net-zero carbon emissions while preparing our youth to shape and build a healthy, sustainable future. She also is co-founder and chair of Caliber Schools, a charter school management organization in the Bay Area dedicated to improving educational outcomes for historically underserved children. She was CEO for the first seven years. This follows her work as a co-founder of ARK, one of the largest children’s charities in the United Kingdom, and King Solomon Academy, an inner-city charter school in London that is one of the top non-selective schools in the country. She is a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow. She is passionate about equity in education.

Her career has combined finance and public policy in the United States and abroad. Moses was a managing director in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs; served as chief executive officer of the British policy think tank CentreForum; and was a senior policy adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, helping to restructure the British banking sector during the financial crisis of 2008-09. She also invests in educational technology startups. A 1983 graduate of Brown, she serves on the Corporation as Trustee and Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee.

Don Short

Mr. Short is a retired Executive from The Coca-Cola Company, having spent 30 years in senior roles in the US, Asia, Africa & The Middle East. Today, Mr. Short is involved in the spirits business as the owner of ROXOR Artisan Gin. He also sits on a variety of for-profit and non-profit boards.

Don and his wife Ann divide their time between Dallas and Aspen.

Robin Smith

Robin Smith is a native of El Paso, Texas, and has been living in the Roaring Fork Valley since 1998, hence declaring herself a true local, in spite of the rigorous semantic standards imposed by some who may challenge her assertion.

She is a graduate of Southern Methodist University (1990) with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in Philosophy.

Her love of art and sculpture ultimately led her into the life of selling watches and jewelry, but prior to that, she dabbled in radio, art school, pharmaceutical sales, was a port lecturer on cruise ships and also in local television as a host for Channel 16 when she moved to Aspen.

Robin and Kenny started Meridian Jewelers in 2003, and it has been going strong ever since thanks to an amazing local and visiting clientele and fantastic staff without whom they can’t imagine.

She is an avid supporter of Theatre Aspen, of course, but is also active with several other local organizations, most notably The Aspen Youth Center and the Aspen Rotary Club where she started the lucrative Aspen Rotary Extemporaneous Speech Competition for high school students from Aspen all the way to Rifle.

In her spare time, Robin enjoys skiing, skinning, biking, hiking, cooking, flyfishing and pickleball-jack of many hobbies, master of none, yet relishing them all nonetheless.

She and her husband Kenny have two sons, Nico & Gavin (a future thespian), and live in Aspen.

Candice Stark

Candice Stark, a native New Yorker is a loving wife for 35 years, a mother of three and a grandmother of six. She and her husband Steven split their time between Aspen, New York and Palm Beach. Candice loves going to the theater, collecting art, decorating and enjoys all the outdoor activities Aspen has to offer. When she has time, she helps out in the family owned business, Stark Carpet.

Candice is passionate about giving to her community by working on and supporting many charities such as Crohns and Colitis, United Cerebral Palsy, Hebrew University, The JCC of Krakow, NY SYnagogue, Kips Bay Boys Club, Hineni, UJA, and she is a lifetime member of Hadassah. Candice is especially dedicated to and has chaired and organized many fundraiser’s for FACES (Find a Cure For Epilepsy and Seizures) part of NYU Langone Hospital.

In Aspen, Candice is a National Council member for JAS Aspen and is newly on the board of Theater Aspen. Twenty six years ago Candice became involved with the developement of Challenge Aspen when her five year old special needs daughter Skylar skied for the first time. Skylar was one of the first participants to ski in the program. Candice is on the board of the National Council for Challenge Aspen.

Candice graduated from Mills College of Education with a B.S. in Early Childhood and Special Education, with a minor in Psychology. Candice has also been an advocate for helping parents with Special Needs children fight for their rights.

Melanie Sturm

Founder of Engage to Win, and a coach in the art of persuasion, Melanie teaches how to inspire an audience – even skeptics – to follow your lead, not based on what you say, but on what your audience hears you say. Because people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care, Melanie teaches how to become more “hearable” in order to win people over to the common ground they instinctively share.

Melanie’s prior work experience is in finance: project finance at International Finance Corporation and M&A at Morgan Stanley (London) and Drexel Burnham Lambert (New York). An Aspen resident, Melanie and her husband Marc (“Zac”) Zachary have a son Zane who attends Aspen High and is passionate about aviation. Zane aspires to fly Air Force One, and one day to be flown in Air Force One. Of note, Melanie is the oldest board member of Theatre Aspen, if not in age, at least in tenure.

Melanie has an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and undergraduate degrees in international relations and economics from Tufts University.

Jen Stylslinger

Jennifer Overstreet Styslinger, wife of Mark Joseph Styslinger Sr. Vice President of Altec, served on the board of Altamont School, Birmingham Symphony, Birmingham Art Museum and as the Vice President of Highlands School. She is currently involved in several charitable organizations including United Way Tocqueville Society, Grace House Ministries, and The Exceptional Foundation.

Along with her husband Mark, Jennifer is a member of Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, VA, Jupiter Island Club in Jupiter Island, FL, Mountain Brook Club in Birmingham, AL and Maroon Creek Club in Aspen, CO. Together they support The Birmingham Symphony, Birmingham Art Museum, Red Mountain Theatre Company and Theatre Aspen.

Jennifer and Mark have four children, Mark Joseph Styslinger Jr, graduate of University of Virginia, Claudia Overstreet Styslinger, graduate of University of Virginia, Stella Smith Styslinger, Senior, at the University of Virginia, and Lydia Catherine Styslinger, Senior, at Aspen High school. The family is members of Our Lady of Sorrows church in Birmingham, AL and St. Mary’s Church in Aspen, CO.

Jennifer earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from SMU in 1986 and worked at Oppenheimer & Co. until 1990. She enjoys playing tennis, skiing, hiking and travelling with her family

Kenny Tate

Kenneth (Kenny) Tate has started a number of private companies in South Florida over the past 40 years. After a career developing single family homes, condominiums, and office & commercial properties throughout South Florida, in 2009, Kenny co-founded Tate Capital, LLC which has been an active purchaser of over $1 billion of institutional grade real estate (some purchased through related distressed debt). Tate Capital oversees all asset and property management of these assets.

In addition, in 1996, he started forming a group of companies operating under the TKO Apparel brand name. These companies currently design and import men’s and women’s clothing under private labels for many of America’s better known national brands and/or retailers.

Kenny has been an active participant with and contributor to many local non-profit organizations, giving tirelessly of his time and financial resources. Mr. Tate currently serves on the boards of Nova Southeastern University, the Broward Workshop (the top 100 business leaders of Broward County, Florida), the Broward Performing Arts Foundation (consistently rated one of the top 10 performing arts centers in the US), and Theatre Aspen (a nationally recognized regional performing arts theater and education center based in Aspen, CO). He is a former board member of the Community Foundation of Broward and Kids In Distress.

Mr. Tate is a graduate of Vanderbilt University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering and Duke University where he earned an MBA. Kenny and his wife, Sandy, split their time between homes in Fort Lauderdale, FL and Snowmass Village, CO.

Amy Verschleiser

Amy Verschleiser earned a B.A. in Child Study from Tufts University and her M.S. in Early Childhood Education from Bank Street College before going on to teach a First Grade at the Birch Wathen Lenox School. In addition to serving on Shefa’s board, Amy has volunteered as an assistant in Shefa’s art room and science lab and also had worked at Harlem Village Academies. Amy currently is working as a substitute teacher at The Cottage in Aspen and works at the AFC food pantry on Wednesday’s.

Some of Amy’s favorite activities are: going to the theater – playing sudoku, canasta, hiking, skinning and swimming. Amy lives in Aspen with her husband Jeffrey and their four children – Joshua, Madison, Brooke, Hope & their two dogs – Jax & Skylar.

Charles ``Chuck`` Wall

Chuck Wall was born in St. Louis, Missouri on May 1, 1945. He received his BA degree from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa in May 1967, and his JD degree from the University of Missouri School of Law in June 1970.

From 1970 until June 1990, he practiced law as a associate, and later as a partner, with the law firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, Missouri. In June 1990, he joined Philip Morris Companies (now Altria Group Inc.) as Vice President and Associate General Counsel. In May 1995, he became Senior Vice President and General Counsel.

Chuck became Vice Chairman of Philip Morris International on March 28, 2008, following the spin off of Philip Morris International from Altria. In November of that year, he assumed the additional position of General Counsel, serving in that capacity until February 28, 2010. He retired as Vice Chairman in June, 2010.

Since retiring, Chuck has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York City Opera, 2011-2015; Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Center of Theological Inquiry located in Princeton, NJ, 2011-present; a member of the Board of Directors of the African Wildlife Foundation located in Nairobi, Kenya and Washington DC, 2011-present; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Music Festival and School, 2016-present,; a member of the Society of Fellows of the Aspen Institute. Chuck lives in Aspen, CO.

Judith Wertheimer

My husband Stephen and I moved to Aspen after living in Greenwich, Connecticut, for 28 years. I have a BA in English, and MA in Library Science and a JD; I also spent a summer studying Shakespeare at University College of Oxford University in England. During my working career I have been the Director of Learning Centers and Libraries for several school districts; a corporate and securities attorney for the Chicago law firms of Winston & Strawn and Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather and Geraldson; and a lecturer in Business Law at the NYU School of Continuing Education in New York. While living in Tokyo, Japan, from 1989 to 1991, I served as a board member and the legal advisor to the Tokyo American Club’s Women’s Group. In Greenwich, I served on the boards of the Junior League, the Breast Cancer Alliance of Greenwich, the Bruce Museum of Greenwich and the Greenwich YWCA. I received the Spirit of Greenwich Award for volunteerism. I also served on the Advisory Board of the NYU School of Continuing Education. My husband and I are both members of the Hubbard Council of The National Geographic Society. We have two daughters, Jessica who lives and work in Los Angeles and Kate who has just accepted the position of Content Director of The Aspen Ski Company and will be moving to the area.