YWCA Board of Directors

YWCA Princeton 2008-2009 Board Members

Executive Committee

Jill Jachera, President, is a senior counsel at Morgan Lewis focusing in the Labor and Employment Practice. Her practice focuses on the representation of employers in all phases of employment-related litigation arising under Federal, state and local employment laws. On the Board for the past five years, Jill previously was a V.P. at Large.

Kristin S. Appelget, Treasurer, is the Director of Community and Regional Affairs at Princeton University. Prior to that, she was President and CEO of the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce, and an elected member of the West Windsor Township Council. She has been a member of the YWCA of Princeton Board of Directors since 2003.

Amy Rabner, First Vice President, chairs the Events Steering Committee of the Auxiliary of University Medical Center at Princeton, and has co-chaired A November Night, a black tie dinner-dance fundraiser, and ArtFirst!, an exhibition of juried art by artists with disabilities. She also serves on the Donor Services Committee of the American Red Cross Blood Services, Penn-Jersey Region and served as President of the YWCA’s Newcomers Club. She has been a YWCA Princeton Board member since 2005.

Debra Johnson, Secretary, a former Tribute honoree and honorary chairperson, is currently a Corporate Compliance Officer and Assistant General Counsel for Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, LLC. Her work involves assisting with the development of MDL’s policies and procedures and ensuring that MDL is in compliance with regulatory agency requirements and reviewing legal matters associated with MDL. She has worked extensively as the Director, Office of Legal Special Projects and Regulatory Affairs in NJ Department of Health and Senior Service in Trenton and general counsel at Bergen Regional Medical Center . She also serves as the Legal Counsel of Reholboth Pentecostal Church . From 1995-2002, Debra served on the Township Committee and council of South Brunswick Township . She served as Mayor 1997, 1999-2002.

Doodie Meyer, V.P. at Large, 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. Doodie served two terms (three years each) on the YWCA Princeton Board, took a year off, and returned as a Board member in the spring of 2007.

Lorine Murray-Mechini, V.P. at Large, is a partner at Ford, Farewell, Mills & Gatsch Architects which focuses on civic, cultural and educational projects. She recently completed work for Princeton University, Rutgers, the Pennington and Pingry schools and currently keeps busy with work at the NJ State Museum and the USGA Museum and Archives. She has served on the Board since 2004.

Judy Hutton has been CEO of the YWCA Princeton since March 2006. She formerly was Executive Director of Anchor House, Inc. in Trenton ; over 20 years, she took a fledgling organization with a tiny budget and almost no staff to a nationally known, $2 million a year, multi-service organization. As a volunteer, she is a peer monitor and trainer for the Administration of Youth and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, implementing a curriculum she developed for national use in 1995. She is president of the Garden State Coalition for Youth and Family Concerns, Inc., an organization that advocates for youth and family issues with governmental and community organizations. She also is a member of the Mercer County Child Care Coalition and Mercer County Youth Services Commission. In 2004, she was named Mercer County Professional of the Year.

Board Members:

Susan A. Hanlon, a CPA with the firm of WithumSmith+ Brown, has more than 20 years of experience in public and private accounting, and financial management in a wide range of businesses enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. She became a YWCA Princeton Board member in the spring of 2007.

Ilyndove Healy is Director of Annual Gifts at the Hun School , where she is responsible for raising and managing an annual giving program of more than $500,000. She has been involved with YWCA Princeton Newcomers, Junior League of Greater Princeton, Boy Scouts, Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce, and University Medical Center of Princeton’s Auxiliary.

Jannifer (Jan) Hill-Keyes, holds a PhD in clinical psychology, and is the president and founder of Strategic Human Resources, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in business strategy and organizational development. She has been a YWCA Princeton Board member since 2006.

Susan Matson is the Director of Curriculum at ESL Language Centers/Berlitz International. She has numerous associations with English as a Second Language programs in the greater Princeton area, is an active member of Toastmasters, and is on the board of Families of Children from China .

Doreen T. Miri is a Principal of Jaguar Group, and is recognized as an innovative leader and trainer in the areas of sales, customer service, and marketing. She has held various positions in the areas of sales, management, and marketing in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. A Board member since 2005, Doreen chaired the YWCA Princeton’s Tribute to Women awards evening in 2006 and 2007.

Amy O’Hara is VP of Multicultural Marketing, Global Wealth Management Marketing at Merrill Lynch. She is a founding Member of Merrill Lynch’s Young Professional Network, a member of their United Way Committee, and a volunteer with the Colgate University alumni admissions program.

Raj Vora, with more than15 years of leadership experience in the international financial services industry, is Director, Global Margin, Securities-Based Lending, at Merrill Lynch. She is a new Board member, having joined in the spring of 2007.

Martha Wickenden is vice-president of Wickenden Associates, an educational consulting firm that specializes in working with independent schools. She recently resigned from the Board of Trustees of The Pennington School after serving for over ten years, and currently is a volunteer for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) of Mercer County, a not-for-profit organization that works with children who are in foster care because of abuse or neglect by their biological parents. She has been on the YWCA Princeton Board since 2003.

Sallye Clark Zink is a partner of Accenture, a global consulting company, and has more than thirty years of experience in financial services operations and consulting. She has been actively involved with a number of not-for-profit organizations such as Princeton Outreach Projects, Nassau Presbyterian Church, Focus In, Habitat for Humanity and Women’s World Banking, and has been on the YWCA Princeton Board since spring of 2007.