The Board of Trustees is responsible for the long-term financial health of the School. The Board sets broad policy of the School based on the principles of progressive education and consistent with the objectives of the School and our founder, Caroline Pratt. Voting membership includes representatives from the teachers, alumni, parent body, and friends of the School. Committees reporting to the Board are listed at the bottom of this page.

Lakshman Achuthan joined the Board of Trustees in January of 2014. He began studying recessions in the early 1990s at Columbia University and then co-founded the Economic Cycle Research Institute in 1996. Lakshman also serves on the Putney School board, among others. He and his wife, Tracy White, have three children (’22, ’26 and ’29) at the School.

Sheelah A. Feinberg '85, a C&C alum, grew up in Greenwich Village. She has served as Chair of the Alumni Annual Fund and as a Group Rep for two years. Sheelah and her husband, Michael Rutkoski, have a daughter at C&C (’27). She is currently the Deputy Commissioner of NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Prior to her current position, she served as Executive Director of the Coalition for a Smoke-Free City, and conducted advocacy campaigns covering a range of policy areas including economic self-sufficiency, parks development, and public health. She holds an M.S.A. from Saint Michael’s College and a B.A. from Goddard College.

Gee Roldan has been at C&C since 2006, teaching the IXs for five years, serving a one-year interim administrative role as the Associate Director of Middle/Upper School, followed by a two-year interim administrative role as the Director for Specials Program and Integration, and is currently in her seventh year teaching the Xs. After completing her degree in Elementary Education and Art at Northeastern University in Boston, she headed out to the classroom. Her first nine years were spent working in public schools across the country (New York, Massachusetts, and California), where she taught grades 1-4. Gee has been actively involved in C&C’s program discussions and community endeavors, including serving as the Equity Committee Co-Chair (six years) and the Educational Committee Chair (two years), as well as co-facilitating the school-wide Social Justice Integration Initiative (2014–2017). Gee served one year on the Board of Trustees in 2015–2016 and is excited to resume her duties as Teacher Representative to the Board for the 2020–2021 school year.

Todd Triller joined the board in 2020 and has also previously served on the Audit Committee. Todd and his wife, Mimi Lee, have two daughters at the school (’24 and ’26). Todd is a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, where he is co-head of portfolio management and workouts for the global credit platform. He is also co-head of energy credit. Prior to joining The Carlyle Group, Todd was a partner at an international law firm with a focus on complex finance transactions. He has a B.S in finance from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and a J.D from the University of Virginia Law School, where he also served on the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review.

Crystal Wald joined the Board in 2020. She shares time between NYC and Minneapolis, where she grew up. A Parsons School of Design graduate, it was fashion that initially brought her to the city. Ultimately, social justice initiatives, the importance of narratives from underserved communities, and the awareness of the power of entertainment led her to co-found nonprofit “2 Brass Brads,” which has evolved to become the socially-relevant production company, Level Forward. She is a current parent of two children at C&C (‘26 & ‘27), and she previously served as Co-President of the Parents Association (2018-2020), Vice President of the Parents Association (2016-2018), and a Group Parent Representative every year since her family’s entry.

Stuart Gold joined C&C’s Board in 1992 and served as its Chair from 1999–2005. Stuart was a litigating partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP until his retirement in 2014. He is the parent of two City and Country alumnae (’01, ’04). He is currently an advisor to the Strategic Planning Committee. Virginia Josephian served on the Board from 1988–2011. She received her undergraduate degree from University of California at Berkeley and did graduate work at the University of Chicago and overseas, where she received a doctorate in demography at the Australian National University. Her professional experience includes work in West Africa for the U.S. Agency for International Development in the U.S. Department of State, for the United Nations as editor of the UN Demographic Yearbook in New York, and as an economic affairs officer at the World Food Council in Rome.

Frederick J. Knecht is the father of two alumni ('07, '11), and was Board Chair from 2006–2015. Fred is retired after a legal career in banking and the securities industry. Before his retirement in 2020, he was Deputy General Counsel of BNY Mellon. Prior to that he was a partner at the law firm Covington & Burling, and also served as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. He received his law degree from Stanford Law School and a bachelor's degree from Tufts University.