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., Ph.D., is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace and a professor of mathematics teacher education. Her work focuses on equitable teaching practices, multiple representations in mathematics, and supporting underrepresented students in STEM. She has authored many publications and grants for  professional development for teachers, blending her vocation, scholarship, and passion for inclusive education.

Nicole DeFilippi '10 graduated from Dominican Academy in 2010 and earned her Bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Fordham University in 2014. She currently works as an assistant project manager at Judlau Contracting, Inc., assisting with overseeing various construction projects across New York City. Nicole is an active member of the Tunnel to
Towers Young Professionals Board and previously served as co-president of the D.A. Alumnae Association. She is deeply committed to community service and volunteering, and looks forward to contributing her skills, experience, and passion to help preserve and enhance the qualities that make D.A. exceptional.

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, '67 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 First Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She later served on the board of directors
of 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 including as Chair of Newmont Mining
Corporation. Noreen was 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 on the boards of the Sarita Kenedy East Foundation, the Lakeville Journal Foundation and the Berkshire Opera Festival.

Lauren Giron, ’93 is an accomplished R&D, quality and compliance leader with over 28 years of experience driving operational excellence across highly regulated industries, bringing deep expertise in supplier quality management, regulatory compliance, product development, and cross-functional leadership, with a proven track record in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. In addition to her corporate leadership experience, Lauren is a certified yoga teacher and a passionate health and wellness enthusiast, dedicated to promoting balance, resilience, and well-being in both professional and personal settings. Her holistic approach to leadership reflects her belief that sustainable success is built on healthy teams and mindful decision-making. Lauren holds a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, and has led transformative initiatives that improved product integrity, accelerated product innovation, streamlined processes, and strengthened organizational governance. Her collaborative approach and strategic vision have made her a trusted advisor to executive teams and a catalyst for sustainable growth. She brings to the Board a unique blend of technical depth, product innovation expertise, wellness advocacy, and a strong commitment to ethical governance and stakeholder value. She lives in Farmingdale, Long Island with her husband, three daughters, step-son and bunny Oreo. She loves Pilates, hiking, going to the beach and camping. 

Glen Gregorio is a strategic initiatives advisor at St. Ignatius School (SIS), a Nativity-model Jesuit middle school serving students and alumni from underserved areas of the South Bronx. He also served as the advancement director at SIS for two years, responsible for leading development efforts to help sustain the school’s tuition-free model. Before embarking on his educational journey, Glen held a two-decade career in the financial services industry, specializing in corporate credit and equities trading. He received an M.A. in school counseling from NYU Steinhardt, a B.S. from Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business, and is a proud alum of Regis High School. He also received micro credentials and certificates in education leadership from the Boston College Roche Center and Harvard GSE. He has chaired D.A.’s DEIB Committee since inception in 2021, and previously served on D.A.’s Finance and Investments committee.

Sadhvee S. Hansraj, J.D., '86 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.

Martha Hirst retired from her position as Fordham University's senior vice president and chief financial officer in 2023, after 14 years in higher education senior leadership posts both at Fordham and St John’s University. She previously served in New York City government for 32 years, including as the Mayor’s Office Director of Local Legislative Affairs, Deputy Sanitation Commissioner for Solid Waste Management and Planning, and Commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Affairs. Joining the D.A. board in 2024, Martha also serves as Board Chair of St John’s Bread and Life. Based in Brooklyn, it is one of New York City’s largest emergency food and human services organizations. She holds a B.A. and Master’s in Urban Planning from New York University. Parent of two young adult sons and grandparent of three tiny granddaughters, Martha resides in Greenwich Village.

Diane Kenney, '66 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 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.

Jennifer Lancaster, Ph.D., brings more than twenty years of experience in higher education to her role as dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Studies at Adelphi University. With a background in clinical psychology, she values the opportunity to support the growth and success of students, faculty, and staff, and approaches her work with a focus on collaboration, compassion, and integrity. Throughout her career, Jennifer has been privileged to serve in leadership roles across student affairs, academic operations, and strategic planning as well as in clinical settings as director of New York Cognitive Therapy and Wellness Center. She is committed to fostering environments that are inclusive, mission-driven, and attentive to the well-being of the whole person. Jennifer continues to supervise trainees, mentor research projects and teach graduate courses at area universities. Dr. Lancaster is grateful for the opportunity to contribute her experience and views this service as a way to support the school’s mission of academic excellence, faith formation, and service to others.

Kristin Barstow Melley, Ph.D., is the inaugural Executive Director of Dominican Veritas Ministries (DVM). In this role, she supports DVM’s canonical and civil boards, the Sponsorship Staff, 13 sponsored schools, and a broad community of Dominican educators serving in an additional 20 schools, to promote the legacy of the Dominican Sisters and animate Dominican, Catholic education. Her career and research interests are the philosophy of Catholic education, the Dominican tradition, differentiated professional formation, leadership development, cross-school networks of learning, and sponsorship as a charismatic partnership. Catholic education has been the precise focus of Dr. Melley’s work. She was a leading advisor in the promulgation of the National Standards & Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Schools (NSBECS). At Boston College she co-created and directed the Two-Way Immersion Network for Catholic Schools (TWIN-CS) and directed the Emmaus Leadership Series which served over 140 school leaders in 42 dioceses, providing school administrators and board members distinctive formation and training to lead exceptional Catholic schools. She has taught at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels, served as a diocesan Associate Superintendent, directed a national center on Catholic school research, and served as principal of an all girls Catholic high school. Dr. Melley holds a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Boston College. Dr. Melley is an adjunct professor at St Mary’s University, Minnesota and consults on national and international initiatives in Catholic education. She resides in the Greater Boston area.

Russell Quiñones is a mission-driven 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 and Leadership. A career educator, Russell has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, a Teach For America Corps Member in Philadelphia, and as the principal of Brooklyn Jesuit Prep. He is now Director of the REACH Program at Regis High School. REACH is a free summer-and-Saturday enrichment program for middle-school boys designed to enhance students' academic and leadership skills. Through its advanced curriculum, REACH prepares students to win scholarships and financial aid to the most selective Catholic high schools in New York City. He is proud to serve on Dominican Academy’s Board of Trustees.

Alice M. Ramos, Ph.D., '66 was a professor of philosophy at St. John’s University from 1987 until her recent retirement and application for Professor Emerita. For the past three years she has taught Natural Theology in an M.A. Program in Catholic Philosophical Studies at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., and in the winter-spring semester of 2025 she will be teaching Theological Aesthetics in the M.A. Program in Theology at the Seminary. Alice studied at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, where she completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1986 and worked in St. Thomas Aquinas, seeking to give a metaphysical foundation to previous work in semiotics; her revised dissertation was published in EUNSA and is titled Signum: De la semiótica universal a la metafísica del signo. At St. John’s, Alice taught a variety of courses such as metaphysics, medieval philosophy, and early modern philosophy but concentrated in aesthetics and ethics. She has published numerous books and over 70 articles on topics in metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, and Christian anthropology. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants both in the United States and in Europe, a past president of the American Maritain Association (2002-2004), and served on the executive council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association as well as on the executive committee of the Metaphysical Society of America.

Jack Raslowsky is the president of Xavier High School. Prior to his time at Xavier, Jack served in a variety of roles including superintendent of schools in the City of Hoboken, provincial assistant for education and lay formation of the New York Province of the Society of Jesus, and principal of St. Peter’s Prep. He holds degrees from the University of Vermont, Harvard and Seton Hall. In addition to D.A., Jack serves on the boards of Seton Hall University and Cristo Rey New York High School. Jack and his wife, Sarah, have four adult children, John, Christian, Rebecca, and Rachel. Sarah and Jack are parishioners of Ss. Peter and Paul in Hoboken.

Sara Fay Snider is the executive director of the Fournier Family Foundation. Prior to its sunset, she was the executive director of the William E. Simon Foundation. Her activities include overseeing the annual grant portfolio and future pledge commitments and working with the Board of Trustees on the Foundation’s policies and operations. Mrs. Snider earned a B.A. from Colgate University and is a candidate for a M.A from 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). 

Elizabeth Whalen is a second term trustee and is honored to be chair of the finance committee. Elizabeth had a 15+ year career as a structured finance banker for several leading Wall Street Firms before taking a break to raise her twin daughters. She is currently an executive director in Treasury & CIO for JPMorgan. Elizabeth came to D.A. through her niece, Fiona Kern, ’23. While not a D.A. graduate, Elizabeth benefitted from and remains a strong believer in the value of a NYC Catholic girls school education. Elizabeth holds a B.A. in history and philosophy from Mount Holyoke College and a J.D. from New York Law School.

Anna Zhao, ’08 graduated from NYU College of Arts and Science with a major in economics and minor in business in 2012. She began her career in finance at Goldman Sachs and was promoted to vice president in the Securities Division in 2022. During her time at Goldman Sachs, she served on the Women’s Network and the Women’s Career Strategies Initiative. Anna has since transitioned to Bloomberg LP where she now advises buy-side clients on portfolio and risk management. Prior to joining the board of trustees, Anna served on the Building & Grounds Committee, Development Committee and Spring Auction Committee. She is looking forward to serving her first term on the Board of Trustees of Dominican Academy.