The Board of Trustees was founded in 1994, and meets quarterly. Each member serves for up to three, three year-terms and is charged with fiduciary responsibilities and planning for the school. The Spring Auction & Benefit event raises money for all scholarships, including the Board of Trustees Scholarship, the most prestigious scholarship offered to an incoming student. This scholarship was established in 1997, following Dominican Academy's Centennial Celebration.

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Sr. Joanne Caniglia O.P. is currently a Professor in the School of Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies at Kent State University.  She taught high school mathematics and K-8 informal mathematics in Akron and Niles, Ohio before earning her doctorate in mathematics education from Kent State University.  Her research interests center on the teaching and learning of mathematics for individuals living on the margins of society. She regularly presents and publishes on innovative and meaningful tasks for teaching and learning mathematics for underrepresented individuals.  Some of her work has appeared in the Mathematics Teacher Journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, School Science and Mathematics, and the Statistics Teacher.  She is the recipient of National Science Foundation, USAID, U.S. Dept. of Education and Ohio Department of Education grants.  She very much enjoys teaching mathematics methods for pre-service undergraduate and masters’ pre-service teachers as well as graduate courses in mathematics education.

Virginia Connor (Chair) has been an educator in New York City independent schools since 1981 and became head of school at St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s in 1993.  Virginia has been a director of lower school, director of middle school, an admission officer, and a director of curriculum development, and she has taught every elementary grade.  Virginia has served on the boards of trustees of more than 10 academic institutions, including her undergraduate alma mater, Wheelock College, where she also was a member of the presidential search committee.  In addition to Wheelock, she is a graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, and a proud alumna of Dominican Academy, Class of 1977.

Daphné Crespo-Helm is a Trustee of Dominican Academy and serves as Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee.  She is also a member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee and Building and Grounds Committee.  During her first term, she served on the Marketing Committee and Capital Campaign Committee.  A proud member of the Dominican Academy Class of 1989, Daphné earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in Economics and History of Art and an M.B.A. from Columbia University with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship.  Daphné’s previous experience includes working in the management consulting practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Principal Consultant in the areas of IT, business process redesign, and strategy.  She also worked in the Chairman’s office during the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand.  Daphné has served on various non-profit committees and boards in the areas of education and health.

Anne del Castillo ’88 led the recovery of New York City's $150B creative and nightlife economy through the COVID-19 pandemic. As Commissioner of the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment under two administrations, she oversaw an agency with over 90 staff across five divisions and an annual budget of $20M. As Senior Policy Advisor for Creative Sector Strategy at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, she is currently spearheading the development of a new initiative to safeguard NYC's cultural and creative infrastructure. A distinguished executive with more than 20 years' experience in arts and entertainment, nonprofit administration and public policy, del Castillo is the recipient of the New York State Senate Woman of Distinction Award, the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame Honor, and the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel Public Counsel of the Year Award. She earned a BA and BS from Boston University and JD from Brooklyn Law School. A native New Yorker, she currently lives in Stuyvesant Town where she is raising her teen son.

Noreen Doyle (Vice Chair) graduated from D.A. in 1967 and earned a B.A. from Mount St. Vincent and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.  She spent more than 40 years (30 of them in London) in the banking industry as an executive at Bankers Trust and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and later as a board member for Credit Suisse Group, Zurich and Credit Suisse Int’l, London.  She has also served on other corporate boards in the U.K. and the U.S. Noreen served on the board of Mount St. Vincent for ten years (3 years as chair) and Marymount International School (London) for ten years (also serving as chair).   Currently, in addition to chairing D.A.’s Governance Committee, Noreen serves as chair of the Lakeville Journal Foundation and is a member of the board of the Berkshire Opera Festival.

Dorothy Christine Filoramo graduated from Dominican Academy in 1958, earned a B.A. at Marymount Manhattan College, and did graduate studies in Marketing at Adelphi University.  She was a Vice President of the original D.A. Board of Trustees, founded in 1994, and later served as President.  She currently serves on the Executive Board as Chairs of the Development and 125th Anniversary Committees.  Dorothy recently retired after 26 years as the Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Dominican College.  Prior to that, she had a career in resort marketing.  Dorothy has a wide range of leadership on many boards. Currently, she serves on the Dominican College Board of Trustees; the Rotary Club of Pearl River, Past President; People to People, President Emerita; and she is an independent member of the Rockland County Executive’s Committee for Tobacco Asset Securitization.  Formerly, she chaired Leadership Rockland, and New Directions.  She is a founder and past president of two women’s networks.  At present, she is co-directing a clean water project in El Salvador.

Glen Gregorio is currently the Head of Trading for Wealthspring Capital LLC, an investment advisor representing more than 300 high-net-worth individuals and family trusts. He has extensive experience in fixed-income credit trading and e-commerce business development. Glen spent 15 years as a senior credit derivatives and corporate bond market-maker for Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, and Citigroup. After sell-side trading, Glen managed the US electronic execution and risk compression groups of Creditex, a subsidiary of the Intercontinental Exchange. Glen also served as a director of business development and electronic strategy at Fenics, leading the company’s first fully automated bond execution and risk compression trading platform.  Glen is serving on his second term on the Board of D.A.  He began his time on the board of the Finance Committee, helping to revise D.A.’s Investment Policy for better transparency and accountability. He now serves as Chair of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee. Glen graduated from Regis High School, received his B.S. in Business Administration from Fordham University, and is currently pursuing an M.A. in School Counseling from New York University.

Sadhvee S. Hansraj, J.D., a proud graduate of D.A., is in her first term as Trustee, serving on both the Finance and Strategic Planning Committees. After two decades in both the securities and insurance industries as an executive with both Prudential Securities and Prudential Insurance, she founded Lynwold Marketing, LLC, where she serves as Managing Principal and COO, providing strategic, operational, and business development advisory services to varied companies in fintech, insurance and the wellness industries. Sadhvee has developed and operated business units for global financial service companies as well as for startup entities.  Early in her career, she led a select inaugural startup team that worked with arbitrators and claimants on the Limited Partnership settlements.  She later transitioned to Prudential Financial headquarters in Newark, NJ, where she shepherded a settlement team that handled one of the largest investor class action settlements in financial services at that time. Once the project was completed, Sadhvee was recruited into the Group Insurance Division in Livingston. After leaving Prudential, Sadhvee embarked on an entrepreneurial path that included managing a real estate portfolio and a series of private equity investments through her own family office. Sadhvee earned her B.A. in English from Barnard College, Columbia University and a J.D. from City University of New York (CUNY) Law School. She has served on various educational and fundraising committees, including for Columbia University and for D.A.’s Capital Campaign.

Mary Jane Higgins (Secretary) graduated from Dominican Academy in 1984.  She has worked as a teacher in various grades in Manhattan private and parochial elementary schools.  She has served as the Curriculum Coordinator at The Epiphany School and is currently an Assistant Principal at Epiphany’s Lower School.  Mary Jane received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the College of the Holy Cross and a Master of Science in Elementary Education from Hunter College.  She completed postgraduate work at Teachers College and St. John’s University.

Diane Kenney graduated from D.A. in 1966 and received her B.A. from St. John’s University and a Masters in Human Resource Management and Development from the New School in NY.  She has also attended numerous Executive Leadership and Development programs at Harvard and IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland during her career.  Diane’s corporate career spanned over 35 years and began in Human Resources at the consulting firm of Booz Allen, then Gulf & Western/Paramount Communications where she rose to the top Human Resources position.  She then joined Time Warner’s Warner Music Group as Senior Vice President of Human Resources.  Subsequently, she was Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Random House Publishing Group.  Diane is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Professional Children’s School and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bottomless Closet, a nonprofit serving women transitioning back to the workforce by providing job assistance skills and clothing, where she held positions of President and Chair in addition to chairing various Committees.

Russell Quiñones is an ambitious leader passionate about educational equity. He is an alumnus of Regis High School, Villanova University, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, where he received his M.S. Ed. in Urban Education & Leadership. A career educator, Russell has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, Spain, a Teach For America Corps Member in Philadelphia, and as the founding Director of Graduate Support at Regis High School’s REACH Program in New York City. After three years of Jesuit leadership and formation with REACH, Russell was named Principal of Brooklyn Jesuit Prep in the summer of 2021. BJP is a Catholic middle school serving low-income families of diverse races, ethnicities, and faiths in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. He is proud to serve on Dominican Academy’s Board of Trustees.

Kristin Shea ’82, P’19 is honored to continue her service on the D.A. Board of Trustees, this time as chair.  Over the years, she has held numerous other positions on the Board including assistant chair, and chair of the President Search, Strategic Planning, and Development Committees.  She was also president of the DA Parents’ Association during her daughter’s time at DA.  She practiced law as a litigator for Conway, Farrell, Curtin & Kelly for twenty years before transitioning to a stay-at-home mom.  She was previously president of the Defense Association of New York, and an Epiphany School Foundation Trustee chairing its Alumni Committee.  She presently serves on the Board of St. John’s Cemetery.

Sara Fay Snider is the Program Director at the William E. Simon Foundation. The Foundation is committed to supporting private and charter K-12 schools, family strengthening programs, and faith institutions through direct giving in Jersey City, NJ, the South Bronx, NY, and Morristown, NJ, as well as policy efforts. She is a proud graduate of The Loyola School and Colgate University (where she double majored in History and Education). She is a candidate for an M.A. in Education at NYU.

Alison Andrews Weber ’97 is a second term Trustee of Dominican Academy.  Alison began her career as a New York City prosecutor, serving as Chief of the Child Abuse Unit within the Major Crimes Division of the Queens County District Attorney’s Office for the last several years.  She recently transitioned to academia and is now an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University School of Law.  Alison is a member of the President’s Council of Fordham University and has served on the Auction Committee of Brooklyn Jesuit Prep. Alison was honored to be named to Dominican Academy’s Board of Trustees, where she is particularly proud to serve on the inaugural Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Krystina (Kryssie) Woods, M.D. is a dual board-certified internal medicine and infectious diseases physician, currently working at Mount Sinai West where she is also the hospital epidemiologist, medical director of infection prevention, and deputy chief medical officer. She has long been passionate about patient education, infection prevention, and patient safety. Krystina was drawn to infectious diseases as it provided an opportunity to work with diverse, and often underserved, patient populations. Recently, along with organizing her hospital's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she also worked with various educational and cultural institutions, as well as businesses, to develop policies for staff, student, and visitor safety. She is an alumna of Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child, New York University, and Ross School of Medicine. Krystina is looking forward to her first term on the Board of Trustees of Dominican Academy.