Alumnae Association Board of Directors
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The board of directors provides guidance and leadership to the Alumnae Association of Smith College. Directors have a range of experience and expertise that benefits the Association, its staff, and alumnae. If you would like to be considered for a director’s position, please click here.
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Lynn Smith Fox '77 |
| Canton, NY |
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| President, AASC Board of Directors, 2011–2014 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, class Fund team; director, Alumnae Association Board of Directors; chair, Alumnae Fund; class president; Fund team coordinator, 20th Reunion; member, Smith clubs of Washington, DC; Pasadena, CA; St. Louis, MO. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Lynn Smith Fox ’77 retired in mid-2012 from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where she worked in congressional and public affairs and internal communications. In addition to volunteer service to Smith, she belongs to advisory boards for the Community Foundation of Northern New York and the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks. She also volunteers at St. Lawrence University where her husband, Dr. William Fox, is president. |
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Kathleen (Kate) Barnes Grant ’75 |
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Portland, OR |
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President-elect, 2012–2013; President, 2013–2016 |
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| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, AASC Nominating Committee; member, board of counselors; NAAC for Western states; Alumnae Admission Coordinator; class secretary; president, secretary, and member, Smith College Club of Oregon. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Counselor, college counselor, dean of students, Catlin Gabel School; director of advising, Lewis & Clark College; dean of first-year students, Wellesley; senior assistant director of admission, Smith; board member, Journeys of the Heart Adoption Services; Sunday school teacher, Unitarian Universalist Association; college counselor, Minds Matter. |
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Laura Thomas Rivero ’84 |
| Miami, Florida | |
| Vice president, 2011–2014 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Chair, AASC Nominating Committee; Alumnae Association Regional Coordinator (AARC) for Florida; class Fund agent (25th reunion); former president, Smith College Club of Miami. | |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Assistant United States Attorney, specializing in criminal and civil appellate law. | |
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Erika Smith Brewer ’86 |
| New York, New York |
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| Treasurer, 2011–2014 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Class Fund agent; secretary and Fund team coordinator; board of trustees, Smith College Club of New York City; chair, Membership Committee; Theater Benefit Committee. | |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: General manager, The Wallace Dillman and Brewer Family Farms; vice president, JPMorgan Chase and predecessor banks; treasurer and chair of finance and development committees, Calhoun School Board; treasurer, brown bag program, Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church; board of trustees, The Brownstone School; board president, Yerkes Cemetery Association; chair of planning and budget, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church Vestry; volunteer, Gay Men’s Health Crisis Child Life Program. | |
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Olwen O’Herlihy Dowling AC ’95 |
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Huntington, MA |
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| Clerk, 2012–2015 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Smith Medal Committee; founder and chair, Ada Alumnae Art Exhibition; member, Hampshire County Smith College Club. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Visual artist in oil, watercolor, printmaking—intaglio etching, and scenic design; exhibitions in the United States, Ireland, and Europe; member, National Association of Women Artists and New England Watercolor Society. More than two decades of experience in theater management and production, including the Miniature Theatre of Chester (MA); the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival; the Blackstone Theatre; the Abbey Theatre and Olympia Theatre Dublin in Ireland; and the Apollo Theatre London. Member, Actors’ Equity Association; executive and associate director, Northampton Center for the Arts; summer program events coordinator, Smith. |
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Judy Johnson Campagnari '85 |
| Westerly, RI | |
| Chair, Classes Committee, 2010–2013 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Gold Key guide; class president; Alumnae Fund Committee; class Fund agent. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Director, Commercial Development, Pfizer Inc; trustee, Westerly Adult Day Care Center, Westerly, RI; board director, Ocean Community YMCA, Westerly, RI; president, advisory board, St. Michael School, Pawcatuck, CT; assistant director, Smith College Office of Admission; associate director, Smith College Office of Career Development; recipient, MBA, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh; mother of one daughter. |
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Megan Gardner ’98 |
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San Francisco, CA |
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Director at Large, 2012–2015 |
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| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Led class Fund team; treasurer, Smith College Club of San Francisco; member, Smith College clubs of New York, Boston, Minneapolis, and San Francisco. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: CEO, PlumDistrict e-commerce and online community for mothers; director, strategy and business development, Ameriprise Financial; Harvard Business School Leadership Fellow; senior associate, investment banking, SoundView Technology; investment banking, Deutsche Bank. |
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Susan Goodall '83 |
| New York, New York | |
| Director, SAQ Liaison, 2010–2013 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Class vice president, 10th Reunion. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Editorial development director, executive managing editor, both at Glamour magazine; managing editor, deputy editor, executive editor, all at Worth magazine; editorial business manager, Vanity Fair; foreign editions manager and assistant to the editor, both at Harper's Bazaar; oversees Glamour Women of the Year Fund, an initiative to raise money for charities that support grassroots activists; board member, New York Women in Communications Foundation. |
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Sarah Khurshid Khan '87 |
| New York, New York |
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| Chair, Affinity and Special Interest Groups, 2010–2013 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Speaker, "Building Community: A Conference and Reunion for Students and Alumnae of Color," 2008; Smith Book Club of Madison; Smith alumnae informal gatherings in Madison; Smith College Club of New York City; attended 10th and 15th Reunions. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Director, Founder, The Tasting Cultures Foundation, Assistant scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine/Integrative Medicine; US program consultant, Global Diversity Fund, New York City; editor, Integrative Medicine Updates newsletter, University of Wisconsin; Khan Nutritional Consulting, and Long Island College Hospital School; graduate research fellow and assistant, Columbia University; intern, Women, Infants and Children of New York City; intern and researcher, Médecins Sans Frontières in Paris; member, Society for Economic Botany; member, advisory board, Natural Gourmet Institute; recipient, PhD in plant sciences/ethnobotany, CUNY Graduate Center, NY Botanical Garden; recipient, master's in public health and master's in human clinical nutrition, both from Columbia University. |
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Dale LaFleur ’93 |
| Tuscon, Arizona |
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| Director, 2011–2014 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: President, treasurer, member, Smith College Club of Tucson; member, Smith College Club of Seattle. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Director, institutional relations, Office of Global Initiatives, The University of Arizona; over fourteen years’ professional experience in international education focusing on the development of international institutional partnerships and student mobility programs; recipient of a master’s in student development administration from Seattle University; member of numerous organizations, including NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the European Association of International Educators; currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona; proud mother of two children. |
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Joan Miller ’80 |
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St. Louis, MO |
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NAAC Chair, 2012–2015 |
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| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Region 8 NAAC; vice president, Smith College Club of St. Louis; Book Award coordinator; member, BASC, Gold Key. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Attorney in private practice, St. Louis. Member, Rotary Club of St. Louis; board member, Boys Hope Girls Hope program committee; member, Women Lawyers Association; member, Mound City Bar Association; volunteer, Legal Advocates for Abused Women. |
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Sarah Cross Mills ’66 |
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Portland, ME |
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Chair, Clubs and Regional Networks, 2012-2015 |
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SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Writer, Alumnae Profiles, San Francisco/Marin Smith Club Newsletter; President, San Francisco/Marin Smith Club; Class of 1966 Secretary; Class of 1966 House Rep and 2011 Reunion Participation Chair; President, Maine Smith Club |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Teacher of English and Social Studies, Roslyn, NY, and Brookline, MA; Adjunct Faculty, Institute of Open Education (now Cambridge College); Co-founder, The Teachers’ Institute, Brookline, MA; Manager, The est Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Management and FranchiseeTrainer, Supercuts Corporation Headquarters, San Rafael, CA; National Advisory Council, Beyond War Foundation, Palo Alto, CA; Board of Overseers, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick, MA; Portland Regional Advisory Council, Maine Women’s Fund, Portland, ME |
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Ann Mitchell '75 |
| Alexandria, VA | |
| Director, 2010–2013 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Class Fund agent and member, 30th Reunion committee; member, Smith College Club of Washington, DC; former AAC of Smith College Clubs in Greenfield, MA, Milton, MA, and Greenville, SC. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: President and CEO, Montgomery Hospice; director, Hospice of the Greenville Hospital System; hospice director and MeSH administrator, Franklin Medical Center; research analyst, Yale Center for Health Studies; credit analyst/lending officer, Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City and Rio de Janeiro; board member, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization; member, personnel lay ministry, Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church; recipient, master's in public health, Yale University, 1981. |
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Rachel Nyback ’92 |
| Hermosa Beach, California |
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| Director, 2011–2014 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Smith College Club of Los Angeles; admissions volunteer in Los Angeles and Kuwait; class Fund volunteer; 10th Reunion volunteer. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Rector, St. Cross Episcopal Church in Hermosa Beach, CA; teacher for nine years in public suburban Los Angeles schools and at Universal American School in Kuwait; volunteer with programs for feeding the homeless and AIDS patients; mentor to new clergy; Hermosa Beach police chaplain; lead overseas youth pilgrimages. |
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Anjana Shakya AC ’91 |
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Kathmandu, Nepal |
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Director at Large, 2012–2015 |
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| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Active member of EKTA, Smith’s South Asian students’ group; actively involved in International Students Day; peer educator for HIV/AIDS and contraception. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Founder and chairperson, Himalayan Human Rights Monitors and Beyond Beijing Committee; vice chairperson, Global Family Village; co-convener and steering committee member, Asia Pacific Women’s Watch; core member, South Asia Women’s Watch; member, Fulbright Selection Committee; director, International Institute for Human Rights, Environment, and Development (INHURED) International; chief auditor, labor rights, Verité; program officer, the Asia Foundation. |
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Leslie Brooks Solomon '82 |
| New York, NY | |
| Smith Fund Representative, 2010–2013 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Advancement Committee, Smith Fund cabinet; served as special gifts co-chair, 25th Reunion; class president; special gift agent; class fund agent; vice president, Smith Club of New York. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Principal and owner, Allomet Partners, LLC; board member, Turnaround Management Association, New York chapter; serve on Temple Shaaray Tefila youth committee; recipient, MBA, Wharton School of Business. |
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Catherine Webb ’70, MD |
| Chicago, Illinois | |
| Director, 2011–2014 | |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: President, Smith College Club of Ann Arbor, Michigan; board of directors, Smith College Club of Chicago; class Fund agent (25th Reunion); special gifts committee (30th Reunion). | |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Board certified pediatric cardiologist with thirty years’ experience caring for patients at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, and C.S. Mott Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI; currently, professor of pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, and professor emeritus of pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; mentor to many students and fellows in their graduate education programs; member of multiple hospital, medical school, and university committees as well as numerous organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and World Heart Federation; author of multiple scientific publications and papers; listed in multiple “best doctor” publications. Volunteer and civic experience: Sustaining fellow and governing member, Art Institute of Chicago; board of directors, Shaw Chicago; governing member, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; board of directors, Chicago Chamber Musicians. | |
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Sarah Trabucchi ’00 |
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Brooklyn, NY |
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Chair, Nominating Committee, 2012–2014 |
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| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Nominating Committee; class secretary; alumnae admission volunteer; chair, class of 2000 Fund team. | |
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author (under Sarah MacLean); director, corporate communications and media relations, Scholastic; communications and brand manager, City Year New York; publicity director, Goldberg McDuffie Communications; national conference presenter, American Anthropological Association; guest lecturer, anthropology department, Harvard; volunteer, Scholastic Reads; volunteer, Project LEARN adult learning and literacy programs, Rhode Island; volunteer, Transitions to College; volunteer mentor, Girls Write Now; judge, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards; recipient, master’s in education, Harvard, 2004. |
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