Officers
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Chair | Dr. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago
Dr. Santiago is a Distinguished Service Professor at Rutgers University and Director of the Community Leadership Center. She led the efforts to establish LEAP Academy and is a staunch supporter of charter schools statewide. At Rutgers-Camden she teaches in the Graduate Department of Public Policy & Administration. |
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Vice-Chair | Jennifer Perkins Young
Ms. Young is the Vice President for Public Affairs for Verizon New Jersey and is also involved in several community and charitable ventures. |
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Treasurer | Peter Burke
Mr. Burke is the Executive Vice President of Development for Brandywine Senior Living in Moorestown, NJ. Mr. Burke serves as Board Treasurer but is a non-voting member. |
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Secretary | Hector Nieves
Mr. Nieves is a small business owner in Camden City, NJ and is the parent of a current LEAP Academy student and a LEAP graduate who is currently in college at Rutgers-New Brunswick. |
Members |
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Wendell Pritchett, J.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Pritchett is the Chancellor for the Camden campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is a former professor and Associate Dean for the Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School. |
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Danielle N. Askew-Lopez
Ms. Askew-Lopez is a parent representative for the board and is also a Secretary at the Office of Graduate & Undergraduate Admissions at Rutgers University–Camden. |
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Manuel Delgado
Mr. Delgado is the Executive Director of the Cramer Hill Community Development Corporation (CHCDC) in Camden, New Jersey. |
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Luis Garcia, , Ph.D.
Dr. Garcia a retired Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Rutgers–Camden and a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Psychology. |
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Marleen Gonzalez
Ms. Gonzalez is a parent respresentative on the LEAP Board of Trustees. |
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Mira Lalovich-Hand, Ph.D.
Dr. Lalovich-Hand is the Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness & Planning at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. |
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Adam Lorber
Mr. Lorber is the General Manager of the Camden Riversharks, a professional baseball team in Camden, New Jersey. |
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Rory P. Maradona
Mr. Maradona is the Assitant Dean for Off Campus Programs, at Camden campus of Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey. |
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Maria E. Miranda
Ms. Miranda is a parent respresentative who also works as a Practice Administrator for Cooper University Hospital. |
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Brenda Ortiz
Ms. Ortiz is a parent representative and also works as a Business Specialist at the Community Leadership Center- Rutgers University-Camden. |
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Benedetto Piccoli, Ph.D.
Dr. Piccoli is the Joseph and Loretta Lopez Chair Professor of Mathematics and a Senior Research Fellow at the
Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, both at Rutgers University–Camden. |
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David Salas-de la Cruz, Ph.D.
Dr. Salas-de la Cruz is a Senior Application Engineer for Holtec International, a global energy technology company based in Marlton, New Jersey. |
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Mary T. Sheil
Ms. Sheil
is the senior partner at 17 A Joyce Kilmer Associates, a property management firm in New Jersey. |
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Omar Villa
Mr. Villa is District Community Bank Manager/Vice President for Wells Fargo Bank. |
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Dyanne P. Westerberg, D.O., FAAFP
Dr. Westerberg has practiced medicine for over 25 years and is a Medical Chief in Cooper Hospital’s Department of Family Medicine and is also a faculty member at UMDNJ and RWJ Medical School and a Medical Director at the Coriell Institute. She is the chief physician at the Rutgers/LEAP Health Center, a health clinic on-site at LEAP Academy. |
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Raymond Yannuzzi, Ph.D.
Dr. Yannuzzi is the President of Camden County College. |
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Wanda Garcia (Board Liaison)
Ms. Garcia is the Associate Director of the Community Leadership Center at Rutgers University-Camden and serves as liaison to the LEAP Academy Board of Trustees, which is a non-member and non-voting post. |
