Board of Trustees

Alf Blitzer, a long-standing Trustee and son of a C&C alum, serves as the Chair of the Board’s Audit and Risk Committee. Previously, he served as the Chair of the Board’s Development Committee from 2006 until 2011. He has been an IT executive for over 25 years and had roles on the national board of City at Peace and the board of directors of the Greenwich Village Little League. Alf’s son attended City and Country from the 2s–3s, graduating in 2009.

Kate Bostock-Shefferman, who joined the Board in 2014, serves as the Board’s Secretary and chairs the Development Committee and the Committee on Trustees. She and her husband, Jesse Shefferman, are the Parent Chairs of the School’s Annual Fund. Kate is engaged in many community and philanthropic interests. She has a B.A. in History from Duke University and received her M.B.A. from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. She and her husband have two daughters at City and Country School (’21 and ’24).

Josh Cender joined the Board in 2016 and is the Board Chair. He also serves as the Chair of the Communications and Finance Committees, and Vice-Chair of the Development Committee. He previously served as Co-President of the Parents Association (2014–16), and has been a Group Representative and Annual Fund Representative multiple times. Josh and his wife, Laura Raicovich, have a son at C&C (’23). Josh is a family office executive experienced in finance, law, and operations, and began his career as a transactional attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He has a law degree from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

Kevin Gillespie is the father of a current C&C student (’26) and joined the Board of Trustees in 2021. He has volunteered for several events and school committees at City and Country since 2017. Kevin, a native New Yorker, has spent years working in different artistic fields. He is currently an art director at Newell Brands.

Megan Holland joined the Board as a Teacher Representative in 2021. Megan has been a Group Teacher for 8 years, teaching the Xs and now the IXsM. Megan also facilitates the White Anti-racist Affinity Gathering for C&C faculty and staff and the children’s LGBTQIA+ affinity group, and is a member of the Equity Committee. Megan holds her MsEd in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education and is certified to teach childhood education. In addition to teaching at City and Country, Megan has worked as an educator in various NYC museums and is a certified yoga teacher. She has a background in archaeology and dance from Barnard College.

Susan Kane and her family joined the City and Country School community in 2018, and she is the parent of two daughters who attend the School (‘24 and ‘27). She has served as an Admissions guide and interviewer, a Group Parent, and an Annual Fund Representative at C&C. Susan has varied and wide-ranging board experience, and currently sits on the Board and chairs the Nominating Committee of The City, a digital non-profit newsroom for New York. She is the founder of Kane & Co. which provides strategic consulting for non-profits. Susan began her career as a commercial litigation attorney, and was most recently with Latham & Watkins. She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

John Kolz joined the Board in 2012 and served as Board Chair until June 2021. Formerly, he served as the Finance Committee Chair, Development Committee Chair, and Chair of the Annual Fund. John is a Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets and is Head of US Equity Capital Markets. John has his undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University. John and his wife, Amy, have two sons (’20 and ’22).

Megan Lau joined the Board as a Teacher Representative in 2022. Megan has been a teacher at C&C for eight years, working as a student teacher, Associate Teacher, and now as a IIIs Group Teacher. Previously she taught for two years in South Korea as part of a Fulbright grant. Megan received her BA from Vassar College and her MsEd in Early Childhood General Education from Bank Street College of Education. She holds a teaching certificate in early childhood education. Megan is the parent to a current C&C student (’32).

Scott Moran is Principal of City and Country School. He started his career as a student teacher at C&C in 2000. He was then VIIIs Group Teacher, IXs Group Teacher, the Math Specialist and Specials Coordinator, and Director of the Middle/Upper School (2007–2012). Scott was the Head of School at Westland School in Los Angeles from 2012–2017. Scott holds a B.A. in Psychology, and a Business Management Certificate, from the University of Rochester. He holds an M.S.Ed. from Bank Street College in Early Childhood and Elementary Education and is a permanently certified teacher in New York State. Scott and his wife, Jennifer, are parents of two C&C alums (’20 and ’24).

Tracey Mumford is the parent of three C&C students (‘28, ‘30, ‘33) and has been part of the C&C community since 2018. She joined the Board of Trustees in 2022 after serving on the Spring Benefit Committee and the Parent Working Group, and as a Group rep and Admissions volunteer. Following graduation from Bucknell University and starting a career in investment banking, she transitioned to a job at The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, where she served as Director of Research Partnerships. After the birth of her first child, she decided to be home full-time and became actively involved in her children’s school communities. 

Barry Munger, a photographer, is a parent of two City and Country alums (’11 and ’14). A native of Los Angeles, he attended Stanford University, and worked as a newspaper and magazine writer and editor in Los Angeles before moving to NYC in 1990.

Caterina Peters is the parent of a current C&C student (‘28) and joined the Board of Trustees in 2022. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Caterina attended New York City public schools and received her BA from Hunter College. Following a brief teaching career, she has worked in real estate for 20 years. Caterina is an advocate for her community in Jersey City, and is a founding board member of the Lincoln Park North Neighborhood Association. She also works with Hope House Women’s Shelter and Saint Lucy’s Shelter. At C&C, Caterina has served as a Group parent, co-chaired the Spring Benefit, created the C&C Community Cookbook, and helped create and facilitate the Affinity Group for Black and Latinx Parents and Parental Figures.

Jennifer Sage ’70, a C&C alum, was born and raised in Greenwich Village and she attended the School with her sister and five cousins, and her three children (’04, ’07, ’11) also attended C&C. After earning degrees from the High School of Music and Art, Harvard College, and the Yale School of Architecture, she pursued her architectural career with I.M. Pei. & Partners before opening her own office, Sage and Coombe Architects, with partner and fellow C&C parent Peter Coombe. As chair of the Board’s Facilities Committee, Jennifer has supported all aspects of the School’s physical plant improvements, campus expansion, and ongoing renovation.

Paul Salmon first joined the Board as the Parent Trustee Representative, serving two years. He rejoined as an At-Large Trustee in 2008, and has previously served as the Board’s Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee. In addition to operating restaurants in New York, Paul is the founder and chair of Rockhouse Hotel in Negril, Jamaica. He founded and runs Rockhouse Foundation, building and supporting elementary schools and libraries in Jamaica. Paul is the parent of two C&C alums (’13 and ’18) and one current student (’25).

Namita Tolia joined the Board of C&C in 2018 as an outside educator. She has been a classroom teacher and school leader since 1994. She has served as an elementary school teacher at The San Francisco School in California, as Lower School Principal at Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York City, as Head of School at Montclair Cooperative School in New Jersey, and is currently serving as Lower School Principal at Rutgers Preparatory School in New Jersey. She holds a B.S. from Georgetown University, a teaching credential from the University of San Francisco, an M.A. from Stanford University, and an M.A. from the Klingenstein Center at Columbia University.

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.

Adam Winkel joined the Board in 2021 after several years in the C&C community as father to two daughters (’25 and ’28), Annual Fund Representative, and regular member of the Spring Fair barbecue pit crew. A native of southwest Michigan, Adam has lived in NYC since 2003. He holds a BA in Math with Computer Science from MIT and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He has worked in technology at Jane Street Capital since 2004.