How Does It Work?
Bryn Mawr’s Board of Trustees has 34 members, each holding term for 5 years. It is stipulated that, every term, 5 of the total 34 trustees are to be nominated by the Alumnae association. Additionally, the sitting President of the College automatically holds a seat. Currently, the Board is populated by a range of trustees, many of whom have graduated from Bryn Mawr and who work in a range of fields, from higher education to financial investing. Each member of the Board can choose to participate in different committees, including ones relating to finance, academic affairs, external relations, and more.
The board meets approximately three times a year: most often in October, February, and April. They congregate on campus across the course of a weekend. At these meetings, the board hosts events with faculty, staff, and student representatives, hears reports from standing committees, subcommittees, or working groups, and tours dorms, academic buildings, and more. At these meetings, they also discuss fiscal matters, including pertinent budgetary items, financial aid, and broader financial goals for the institution.
For any large, college-wide financial decision, or any decision regarding something that affects the college’s mission or long-term strategy, the Board of Trustees must ratify the decision through a vote before it can be implemented. Some examples of board-backed projects include the development of Shillingford Field and the newly-minted DLR Project.
Board Members
Christy Allen ’90
Christy Allen currently serves as the General Counsel for the Tennessee Department of General Services in addition to being a member of the Board. As a board member, she has a history of avoiding calls for divestment; a 2013 blog blog details her refusal to divest from major fossil fuel companies and she has since refused further calls to divest from Israeli technology.
Cynthia Archer ’75
Cynthia Archer, in addition to serving as the head of the Board at Bryn Mawr, was the former Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer at Sunoco LP, which has been penalized over $610 million for environmental offenses since the year 2000. Additionally, she has called Israeli companies that Bryn Mawr has invested in “particularly good companies” and has refused to meet or communicate with Bryn Mawr SJP since Fall of 2024. As of 2026, she is stepping down as the head of the Board of Trustees.
Saskia Subramanian ’88
Subramanian is a research sociologist and university educator who has taught Sociology and Gender Studies at UCLA, Mt. St. Mary’s, and the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to serving on the Board, she sat on the board for the Roessler Chadwick Foundation and Chadwick International in Songdo, South Korea), and the Roessler Chadwick Foundation Group. From 2016-2021, Saskia was the President of the Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Association. She is now the head of Bryn Mawr’s board, set to succeed Cynthia Archer in May of 2026.
Sally Bachofer ’97
Sall Bachofer, along with being a member of the Board, has spent her career working in education. She is also a Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution and has worked directly with Condoleezza Rice, known for her participation in Bush’s War on Terror.
Keana Bloomfield ’18
Keana Bloomfield most recently attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and worked for PNC Financial Services for 5 years prior to receiving her M.B.A. PNCFS has accrued over $725 million in penalties regarding financial, consumer, and employment related offenses. Additionally, the company holds investments in firms like Lockheed Martin, Leidos, and Boeing’s military division, which have all supplied equipment to the Israeli military.
Margaret Breen ’82
Margaret Breen is an attorney who represents clients in emerging and entrepreneurial businesses. She is a member of Bryn Mawr’s Board but is based in Seattle, where she advises nonprofit boards on compliance and governance.
Judith “Judy” Calhoun ’82 MA ’85
Judy Calhoun is the CEO of NOCO Humane and a past board chair of the Association for Animal Welfare Advancements in addition to sitting on the Board at Bryn Mawr.
Cynthia Chalker ’98
Cynthia Chalker is a clinical Social Worker and psychoanalyst who resides in New York City. Outside of being a member of Bryn Mawr’s Board, she is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, an instructor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NYC), and until recently, on the board of Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Mary L. Clark ’87
Mary Clark has worked in higher education for most of her career and has most recently worked at the provost at Denver University, where she was a member of an administration that cut student programs and received demands for accountability from the student and faculty bodies.
Rhea Graham ’74
Rhea Graham currently serves on the Board of Bryn Mawr after a career spent working as a geophysicist for Exxon Mobile, which has amassed over $3.3 billion in environmental penalties since its inception. Further, she served under war criminal Bill Clinton as the director of the Bureau of Mines before its shuttering in 1996.
Jing-Yea (Amy) Hsu ’94
Amy Hsu serves as the CEO of Reliable Source Industrial in addition to serving on Bryn Mawr’s board. The company is headquartered in Taiwan.
Nicole Huynh ’06
Nicole Huynh is a marketing strategist that has previously held leadership positions at The Bank of New York Mellon, MSCI, Neuberger Berman, and J.P. Morgan, which have hundreds of millions of combined dollars invested in Israeli companies. She currently lives with her husband and dog in Jersey City, NJ.
Diane Jafee P’21
Diane Jafee has over 40 years of murderous investment experience in addition to serving on the Board. She was the Vice President and portfolio manager at Kidder, Peabody & CO, which was fined over $25 million for insider trading under her leadership. Over her career, she has had over $7 billion worth of assets under her management.
Kiki Jamieson ’88
Kiki Jamieson, along with working on the Board at Bryn Mawr, is a strategic consultant and the former president of The Fund for New Jersey from 2011-2023
Karen Kerr ’89
Karen Kerr works as a venture capitalist in addition to serving on the Board. She currently works at GE Ventures, but previously worked for Intellectual Ventures. Intellectual Ventures has over $65 million invested in the Israeli company MEDX, which works under the Israel Innovation Authority, the support and investment arm of the Israeli government.
Gina Kim ’92
Gina Kim has a past rooted in wealth management. She served for 6 years at the NASDAQ Stock Market, where the former chairman admitted to a $170 dollar Ponzi scheme. She also spent 5 years working at Grant Thornton, Israel’s sixth-largest certified public accounting firm. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two daughters as she serves on Bryn Mawr’s Board and continues her career in wealth managements.
Jeffrey I. Kohn P’16
Jeffrey Kohn is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of GW Law in addition to serving on Bryn Mawr’s Board. He has spent over thirty years in private practice as a labor and employment lawyer.
Amy T. Loftus ’90
Amy Loftus, along with serving on the Board, currently serves as the President of the US East Region for Slalom, a consulting company that uses artifical intelligence and has been hit with a lawsuit in California recently.
Molly MacDougal ’16
Molly MacDougal serves on the Bryn Mawr Board as well as being an associate at Weil’s Private Equity Practice. The co-managing partner, Gerhard Schmidt, invested $5 million into a PE fund that purchased Israel’s NSO Group, which manufactures Pegasus spyware. This military-grade spyware has been used to surveil journalists and human rights activists. She is based in Boston.
James Matteo P’22
Jim Matteo has spent his career within finance and higher education. He has served as the Vice President for Finance, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer at Princeton and is an ex-officio member of the Princeton University Investment Company Board. During his tenure at Princeton, he consistently refused decades of calls from student and community activists about divestment from fossil fuels. He brings these experiences to his position on the Board at Bryn Mawr.
Barry Mills
Barry Mills served as the President of Bowdoin College from 2001 to 2015 before serving on the Board at Bryn Mawr. During his tenure, he received allegations of infringement of free speech by FIRE.
Sara C. Moreno ’95
Sara Moreno has spent her career in finance in addition to serving on the Board, jumping from companies like Loomis Sayles to Citi Global Markets to Goldman Sachs to Moody’s. These companies all explicitly hold, collectively, billions of dollars in the Israeli terror apparatus.
Lori A. Perine ’80
Lori Perine has a variegated professional past. Before serving on the Bryn Mawr Board, she worked at a private consulting firm, at World Bank’s energy program, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and at the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. She is also the former Associate Director for Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Thabani Clemens Sinkula ’99
Thabani Clemens Sinkula, in addition to serving on the Board, serves as the Chief Financial Officer at CaringBridge and on the strategic board of a Paris-based private investment group.
Anita Ntem Thomas ’18
Anita Thomas currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff at Democracy Prep Public School in New York, as well as on the Board at Bryn Mawr. She attended the University of Pennsylvania for her M.S. in Education Entrepreneurship.
Lorelei A. Vargas ’94
Lorelei Vargas is the Chief Community Impact Officer at Trinity Church Wall Street. Before joining Trinity Church and serving on the Board at Bryn Mawr, she worked for the City of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS).
Severa von Wentzel ’95
Severa von Wentzel is the Chair of the External Relations Committee of the Board at Bryn Mawr. She also serves as Secretary of the Bryn Mawr College United Kingdom Alumnai Club. She is based in London.
Teresa Wallace ’79
Teresa Wallace attended the University of Pennsylvania for her master’s degree and has spent her career in higher education, at Bryn Mawr, Widener, and Drexel.
Special Representatives
Linda A. Hill ’77
Linda Hill has a history of immoral business decisions. She served on the Board of Directors for Cooper Industries, State Street Corporation, which refused to cease its transfer of arms to Israel in 2024 despite calls from the UN. She has also served on the boards of The Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Citizens Initiative, the ArtCenter College of Design, and Harvard Business Publishing. She is based out of Massachusetts and serves on Bryn Mawr’s Board.
Dana Thompson ’94
Dana Thompson is a professor of law at the University of Michigan, as well as the founding director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic. She practiced commercial real eastate law before entering academia and is the President-elect of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Leadership Council in addition to serving on the Board.
Nanar Tabrizi Yoseloff ’97
Nanar Yoseloff’s husband is the Executive Managing member and Chief Investment Officer of Davidson Kempner , which is ranked as the 9th largest hedge fund in the world. Furthermore, she has been tied to Talia Weinstein, known for her pro-cop agenda.
Michael B. Kim H’85
Michael Kim is the managing partner and co-founder of General Atlantic, one of the largest global growth equity firms in the world. He serves on the boards of several companies that have been criticized for their labor practices, environmental impact, and aggressive profit-maximizing strategies. He is the richest person in South Korea and, in January 2026, he had a now-dismissed arrest warrant from the South Korean government regarding accusations of fraud.
