Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Executive Committee:

 

Diane Lefebvre, Board President, worked at JP Morgan Chase directing the global business management department for Investment Management Technology responsible for project management governance, financial management and reporting, and status reporting and metrics. Prior to that, she spent 20+ years at Telcordia Technologies in various management positions managing all aspects of the software development life cycle, project management, product management, contract management and finance. Culminating her Telcordia career as the Finance Executive Director managing the $250M Software Systems budget.

 

Diane is currently a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in Somerset County and a volunteer at Angel's Wings, a shelter for abused and neglected children. Previous community involvement included President of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Lowell (MA), Somerset County Handyman program, Literacy Volunteers of America, Girl Scouts, and chair of the finance committee at her local church.

 

Diane lives in Skillman with her husband, daughter, mother-in-law and dog, Lucky,

 

 

 

 

Maria Sypek, 1st V.P.,is a retired Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, assigned to Mercer County Vicinage.  In this role, she has held various positions including Presiding Judge of Criminal, Family and Chancery.  As Judge, Maria focused on a number of community-based areas, including presiding over Drug Court to emphasize rehabilitation.  While in Family Court, Maria presided over the Children in Court docket that handles all of the DYFS cases.  As a result, she became knowledgeable of that system and the social service issues and servicers in the state.  In Chancery, Maria helped to shape a Court initiated mediation program into a successful vehicle to help homeowners attempt to save their homes. Mercer County’s program was used as a template for the statewide effort.  Maria also sat on the Intensive Supervision Program which allows for convicted individuals who meet certain criteria to serve the balance of their sentence in the community under individualized intensive supervision.

 

Maria also acted as Managing Partner and practiced in litigation and Probate at the Stockman, O’Donnell & Sypek P.A. law firm.  She lives in Ewing with her husband, Arthur.

 

 

Judy Klitgaard, V.P. at Large, husband Bill, and son Miles have lived in West Windsor since December 1997.  They moved here from the San Francisco Bay Area, where she had spent 14 years as a branch manager for a municipal bond investment banking firm and 1½ years as a full-time volunteer with several organizations in the Bay area.

 

Since relocating, Judy has served as secretary for the Village School PTA, and president of the YWCA Princeton Newcomers’ Club as well as Interest Group vice president.  In her capacity as Newcomers’ president, she sat on the YWCA Board of Directors for a year, then was elected to a three-year term in 2001. Following completion of her 6 years she rotated off the board due to term limits and is now back on the board.  She has been a member of the Board’s Executive Committee for four years, chairs the Board’s Nominating Committee, is a member of the Development Committee, and has co-chaired three Evenings at McCarter Theatre, annual major spring fundraising events.  She has also participated in the Patron Cocktail party.  Additionally Judy sits on the Investments Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee, and  chairs the HR committee. Outside of the YWCA, Judy is a member of Princeton United Methodist Church.  Judy is co-owner of Provence-At-Home which features handmade table linens from the Provence region of France.

 

 

Amy Rabner, V.P. at Large, worked at Boston University Medical Center as a financial analyst before moving to Philadelphia and becoming the Director of Academic Finance for Hahnemann University and later the Executive Director of the Department of Medicine.

 

Following several years as a stay at home mom and volunteer president of the 500 member auxiliary of Moss Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia, Amy worked as an account executive for Toplin & Associates, Inc., a public relations and marketing firm outside Philadelphia. There she managed client’s accounts, later becoming the firm’s Technology Manager. In that capacity, she maintained and upgraded office hardware and software, managed the help desk, and worked with clients on web site development and search engine optimization.

 

Currently, Amy is active in the Auxiliary of University Medical Center at Princeton where she started several new fundraisers including ArtFirst, an exhibition of juried art by artists with disabilities, and The Princeton HealthCare KIDS MARATHON, a 26.2 mile 10-week fitness program for children in grades K-8. Amy is a past-president of the YWCA’s Newcomers Club.

 

Amy lives in Skillman with her husband, Barry, and has two grown children, Dara and Marc.

 

 

Beth Crutcher Director of Institutional Advancement, Stuart Country Day School.

Andrea Darling most recently worked for a law firm in Boston, where she represented employers in diverse employment discrimination actions and represented clients in a broad range of litigation matters. She also served pro bono as a court-appointed guardian ad litem for children involved in the family court system through abuse and neglect cases. Previously she worked as a summer associate with a law firm in Portland, Oregon. Before law school, Andrea worked as a graduate instructor at Duke University, where she designed and taught interactive French courses to undergraduates. 

Andrea holds an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in French from Duke University, and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law.

 

Andrea currently serves on the Board of Princeton Community Housing as the YWCA liaison. She is also chairing the YWCA's 36th annual Crafters' Marketplace. The Marketplace raises funds for the YWCA's Bates Scholarship Program, which allows economically disadvantaged community members to participate in YWCA programs. 

Andrea lives in Skillman with her husband, Todd, and their two young sons, Alex and Nicholas, who have participated in various YWCA aquatics, gymnastics, and other preschool programs.

 

 

Janet Smith Dickerson was Princeton University’s vice president for Campus Life from 2000-2010, Janet Smith Dickerson had oversight responsibility for five departments: Athletics, Religious Life, University Health Services, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, and the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. She served as liaison to the ROTC program and represented Princeton on the Policy Committee of the Ivy League. At Princeton for a decade, she advocated for undergraduate and graduate students through her work on cultural issues including health and well being, diversity and inclusion, equity of experience and residential life.

 

Dickerson served as vice president for student affairs at Duke University from 1991-2000 and was dean of the college at Swarthmore College from 1981-1991. Earlier in her career, she was associate dean and founding director of the Supportive Services program at Earlham College (Indiana) and was a teacher and guidance counselor in Cincinnati Public Schools. She holds degrees from the Western College for Women (now Miami of Ohio) and Xavier University, Cincinnati. She pursued advanced graduate study the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University and has received honorary degrees from Xavier and Swarthmore. Dickerson has an extensive record of consulting for higher education and was a Fulbright administrative fellow to Germany in 1997. She currently serves on the boards of Swarthmore College, the United World College USA, and the Princeton Blairstown Center, among others.

 

 

Patricia Mae Doykos, Ph.D. is Director of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation. She works on health strategy for the Foundation and leads the Together on Diabetes^® iniative, a 5-year $100 million program launched in November 2010 to improve health outcomes of people living with type 2 diabetes in the United States by strengthening patient self-management education, community-based supportive services and broad-based community mobilization. In line with the Foundation’s mission to reduce health disparities, this initiative targets adult populations disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes.

 

In the area of HIV/AIDS, Patricia’s role is to assist in mobilizing lessons learned from the Foundation’s program for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Secure the Future, to other regions of the world affected by the epidemic so that they can be replicated and inform evidence-based public health policy and investments.  This involves ongoing outreach, advocacy and partnership development with major donors like the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), U.S. based AIDS service and advocacy organizations, and corporate philanthropy and social responsibility peers. 

 

Patricia received her B.A. in German and Government from Dartmouth College, M.A. in German Language & Literature from the University of Virginia and doctorate in German Literature & Cultural Studies from New York University.

 

She lives in Titusville, New Jersey with her son, Culver.

 

 

Michelle A. Emerson owns and operates Melting Pot Gifts, an online business specializing in interracially-themed gift products. With the encouragement and support of her husband, the business began offering products to this underserved market in 2002.

 

Michelle has served in numerous volunteer positions since moving to the area from Dallas in 1999. She is currently president of the Junior League of Greater Princeton, having been active in that organization for ten years and on the board for four. She helped launch and grow the ROCKETS (Raising Our Children’s Knowledge by Educating Through Science) program which provides science and math literacy enrichment activities to local preschool classrooms.

 

An alumni interviewer for Rice University, she also has served on the boards of Passage Theatre, the Trenton Museum Society, the Trenton Film Society, and the Child Placement Review Board.

 

Michelle is also planning the inaugural Alexander’s Run for October 30, 2010, a memorial run dedicated to the memory of her son Alexander Michael Dodson, a healthy, happy, 19½ month old toddler who passed away unexpectedly in his sleep in December 2008. Funds raised from this event will be used to support the Alexander Michael Dodson Memorial Scholarship Fund and the Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood Program.

 

A graduate of Rice University, Michelle lives in Trenton with Dan Dodson, her husband of ten years.

 

 

Jenine M. Gamble-Blount is a school-based therapist who provides evaluation and assessment services to children in Trenton. As a volunteer community services coordinator for Mocha Moms of Mercer County, she identifies volunteer sites, and coordinates volunteers and organizes their activities. Her 14 years of human services experience with children and their families have equipped her with exceptional interpersonal skills to work with various types of people.

 

 

Ilyndove F. Healy has 10+ years working at various educational organizations in advancement, and currently works at Rider University as the Director of Annual Giving. Prior to working in advancement, she worked as a consultant for Accenture, specifically in Supply Chain Management. Originally from Southern California, Ilyndove and her family moved to Princeton in 2003 from Wellesley, MA. She quickly got involved with the YWCA Princeton Newcomers Club as a member, and as an officer, as well as the Junior League of Greater Princeton, and University Medical Center of Princeton’s Auxiliary. She has an MS in Information Resource Management, and a BS in Information Management and Technology, both from Syracuse University.

 

 

Karen Klein  Director, Private Banking & Investment Corporation, Merrill Lynch.

 

 

 

Lily Just is a marketing strategist with 12 years of diverse experience in both corporate and educational institutions, such as Merrill Lynch, Tax Technology Services, EXAMCO, and the Tulane University Admissions and Financial Aid office. Her experience includes strategic business planning, market planning and strategy, sales and promotions, recruiting, and tuition financing planning.

 

Lily has a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.  She also serves on the Yale Alumni Committee of Central New Jersey interviewing admission applicants and belongs to the National Society of Hispanic MBAs.

 

 

Lorine Murray-Mechini is a partner at Farewell Architects. Farewell Architects LLC is focused on the architecture of the human environment.

 

Lorine recently completed educational projects for Princeton University, The College of NJ, the Pennington and Pingry schools, and cultural projects at the NJ State Museum, the USGA Museum and Archives, Edison Menlo Park site, the David Sarnoff Gallery and a recent expansion at Longwood Gardens.  Currently she keeps busy with a 25,000 sf performing arts addition for the Mason Gross School at Rutgers.  She holds a B. Arch. from the Pennsylvania State University, is registered in NJ and NY, NCARB certified, and is a LEED Accredited Professional specializing in Building Design and Construction.

 

Lorine current serves on the Montgomery Township Planning Board Design Advisory Committee and the Penn State Women in Arts and Design Advisory Group.

 

She lives in Skillman with her husband Fred, and has two children.  Kyle attends college and Ryan is in high school.

 

 

Doodie Meyer has been vice president of business development for the Howard Design Group, Inc., of Princeton since 1994. She identifies new business opportunities, and works with clients as project director. She is also the president of Meyer Educational Consultants, an educational firm offering college admission counseling.

 

Prior to her current position, she worked in development at the Newgrange School in Princeton, with responsibility for workshops, events, and fund-raisers. She also was a vice president with Peterson’s Guides, Inc., managing the school division with products and services focused toward public and private secondary schools and camps. She was charged with developing new products and services targeted at the market segment. From 1972 to 1988, she worked in the admission’s office at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. From 1982 to 1988 she was the director of admission and in 1985 was the President of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.

 

Doodie has served as a board member of the Trenton After School Program, and the YWCA. She chaired the funds development committee and served on the Mission Council Committee of the Presbytery of New Brunswick. She is an elder at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton.

 

 

Wanda Y. Taliaferro has worked in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries for most of her career. She has a project management and process improvement background and has worked for many divisions of Johnson & Johnson. She is currently the Vice President of Process Improvement for Covance, Inc. in Princeton. Wanda is a graduate of MIT, where she earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering and also holds a MBA in Operations Management from Columbia University.

 

Wanda enjoys mentoring and supporting young people. She is on the board of the New Jersey Orators, Inc. - an organization that teaches young people the art of public speaking. She is also on the board of the MLK Youth Center of Bridgewater, NJ - a tutoring and after school care program.

 

Wanda is a freelance writer for the greeting card and gift item industry. She is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Wanda currently resides in Edison, NJ.

Miquelon (Micky) L. Weyeneth has worked for Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ as an Executive Director in their finance division since October 2001. Prior to that, she served as VP of investor relations for US Healthcare, held several positions in international finance with Rhone-Poulenc (RP) Inc. and Johnson and Johnson, and operated her own consulting company, Weyeneth Consulting LLC. She was a YWCA Princeton Tribute to Women (then called “TWIN”) honoree in 1989.

 

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Micky received a degree in political science from the Graduate School of International Studies in Geneva. She earned a master’s degree in international finance from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts, and an MBA from NYU.

 

Micky is the mother of two grown daughters, and enjoys volunteer work in her spare time. She is a past president and treasurer of the Board of the YWCA Princeton, a member of the Princeton Adult School board, cofounder of the Princeton chapter of FENG (Financial Executive Network Group), and past treasurer of the Swiss-American Historical Society.