Governance

Carol Beaton

Clerk, Quaker Life & Community

A member of Bristol Friends Meeting, Carol is the director of finance and operations at Westfield Friends School and was the business manager for Frankford Friends School before that. (She has also worked in the insurance and risk-management industry.) In addition to building the financial sustainability of small Quaker schools, she has been a Friends school parent. 

Gab Carbone

A forest-bather, wanderer, and mycophile, Gab has spent 20 years as half of Princeton’s Bent Spoon. With degrees in special education/psychology and pastry arts, she often gets involved in quirky projects that advance ideas to address food systems, food security, sustainability, and community arts. She and husband Brendan live with two sweet dogs and child Seymour ’30.

“The impact of a Princeton Friends School education shines brightly through students’ lives. PFS helps nurture a special kind of curiosity and a strong community-responsibility compass. Time and again, [former PFS] students we have hired tend to be the most foundationally stable, community minded, and exceptionally kind spoonies.”

Janine Chupa

Janine is director of alliance management for the pharmaceutical company CSL Behring. She has worked in external innovation and R&D, coauthored numerous scientific publications, and holds 20+ patents. She received an IB diploma from United World College, a B.A. in chemistry from Oberlin College, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Penn. Her son, Ryan Knab, attended PFS from B School to graduation in 2019.

“One of the many things I value about PFS is the sense of community. Many of our family’s treasured friendships began at PFS.”

Dena Hoffman

A marketing professional who has focused on developing branding and marketing strategies for educational and nonprofit organizations, Dena currently provides marketing strategy and supports engineering volunteers at IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). When not racing around Princeton with her twin daughters, Alex and Zeva, she enjoys traveling and getting together with friends.

“I became enamored of PFS when I witnessed my daughters’ love for Princeton Friends Camp. They would come home belting out chants and songs while espousing the SPICES. The realization of community and the values PFS instills have pierced our family deeply.”

Nadir Jeevanjee

Clerk, School Committee

Clerk, Executive Committee

A member of Princeton Friends Meeting, Nadir holds a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley. He is a climate scientist at a federal research lab in Princeton. Nadir has two children at PFS, Seamus ’24 and Samina ’26.

David Kossoff

Clerk, HOS Search

A marketing professional, David has an intellectual curiosity for the art of marketing, and is knowledgeable about marketing strategy, corporate rebranding, public relations, website ideation and construction, content, and digital marketing. He began his career as a freelance drummer. Today he is an avid cyclist, averaging 4,000 miles a year.

“What I love most about PFS is that it fosters creativity and critical thinking, consistently producing students who exhibit a confidence that will serve them well in whatever they pursue.”
 

Angel Obregon

Clerk, Advancement

With a background in branding, design, marketing, user experience, and creative content production, Angel has spent 20+ years as a creative director. He has worked with brands like Audible, Amazon, GE Healthcare, and ecommerce agencies, and manages sales and creative operations at Kindred Studios. When not making guacamole for friends, he is often traveling for food (especially tacos or pizza) with his family.

“I will forever be grateful for this magical place called PFS and the confidence and sense of self it fosters in its students.”

Alison Sommers-Sayre

Asst Clerk, School Committee

Clerk, Resources

With a marketing, fundraising, and operational management background and after nearly 20 years in Princeton University's advancement office, Alison is executive director at the Delaware River Greenway Partnership. She graduated from U Chicago, attended UC Berkeley, and is now proud to call New Jersey home. She lives with husband Dave (a Buckingham Friends member), child Ian ’23, and multiple pets in the woods outside Lambertville.

“I greatly value PFS’s approach to preparing children to be good citizens and community members, in addition to strong academic students. Today resilience, adaptability, independence, and self-assurance are critical, and a PFS education helps form and build those characteristics.”

Cynthia Vandenberg

A Trenton resident, Cynthia works at the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) and serves on the board of the 120 East State Street Project, overseeing the redevelopment of the historic First Presbyterian Church as a community arts center. Cynthia, her wife, and their children are members of Newtown Friends Meeting.