School Governance
The Board of Trustees is comprised primarily of parents and guardians of students enrolled at The GreenMount School. Board meetings are held monthly at the school and are open to all families. The Board runs three all-school meetings per year: parent orientation in August, a mid-year status meeting in January, and a meeting in May with information about the coming year.
Much of the Board’s work is carried out through committees who report back to the full board: The contracts committee, the finance committee, the strategic planning committee, and the executive committee are among the committees currently in operation.
Most of the day-to-day decision-making is delegated to The GreenMount Head of School, who oversees the teaching and administrative staff.
Members of the Board of Trustees 2018-2019
| Angelo Otterbein: President |
| Angelo and his wife Lauren Calia have been GreenMount parents for 8 years. Angelo is Chief Innovation Officer for Finalsite, which provides design and software to independent schools around the country. Angelo is in his sixth year on the GMS Board, having served as President for the past two. |
| Jean DuBose: Vice President |
| Jean DuBose has served the GMS community as a Board member since 2009. Jean is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board and the Chair of the Development Committee. Jean is currently the Chief of Staff of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, an affiliate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has over twenty years of experience in nonprofit management, resource and program development, special event planning, and communications. |
| Desmond Stinnie: Treasurer |
| Desmond Stinnie is the Founder and President of Opulent Cloud, a Baltimore-based provider of managed cloud services. Desmond joined the board of GreenMount in 2017. Desmond and his wife Colleen and their children have lived in Mt. Washington for 14 years. |
| Tracy Pietrzak: Secretary |
| Tracy Kuniega Pietrzak is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. She works as an attending physician for the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt. Originally from northeastern Pennsylvania, she and her husband have lived in Baltimore for over 15 years. |
| Paul Adams: Community Board Member |
| Paul Adams is a media relations and communications manager for Exelon, a Fortune 150 energy company headquartered in Chicago and owner of Baltimore Gas and Electric. Since becoming involved at GreenMount, Paul has served on the Marketing and Communications committee. |
| Kristen Brown: Community Board Member |
| Kristen Brown lives in Cedarcroft with her husband Justin, and their two children. She has had a 17-year nursing career devoted to the care of critically-ill children at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as an Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. |
| Brad Cohen: Community Board Member |
| Brad Cohen works as the Director of Education at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, a liberal Reform Synagogue in Baltimore. He loves to spend time outdoors hiking, reading, and going on adventures with his family. |
| Matt Hankins: Community Board Member |
| Matthew Hankins was born in Baltimore and raised in Carroll County, Maryland. Trained as a historic restoration carpenter, he manages the millshop for Worcester Eisenbrandt, Inc., an historic preservation contractor in south Baltimore. Matt chairs the Building and Grounds Committee. |
| Johns Hopkins: Community Board Member |
| Johns Hopkins is the executive director of Baltimore Heritage, a historic preservation and neighborhood revitalization organization in Baltimore. Johns joined the board of GreenMount in 2010 and serves as the board secretary. |
| Steve Klepper: Community Board Member |
| Steve Klepper and his wife, Meredith, live in Charles Village. Steve is the outgoing president of the Goucher College alumni association, and he served for six years on the board of the Contemporary Museum. He works as an appellate litigator at Kramon & Graham, P.A., in downtown Baltimore. |
| Emily Levenson: Community Board Member |
| Emily Levenson is a Partner at the law firm of Brown, Goldstein & Levy. She serves on the boards of the Homeless Persons Representation Project and Bolton Hill Nursery. She and her husband Jon have two children and a dog and live in Bolton Hill. |
| Katie Morris: Community Board Member |
| Katie Morris is a faculty member in the Masters of Arts in Teaching department and the Coordinator for Undergraduate Art Education at MICA. She has 20 years of teaching experience at various academic levels. She maintains an active studio practice in printmaking, having exhibited her work in Baltimore, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. |
| Colm O’Comartun: Community Board Member |
| Colm O’Comartun is a founding partner of the firm 50 State, a consulting firm for political process in business. Colm serves on the Development Committee at GreenMount. |
| Farooq Sadiq: Community Board Member |
| Farooq Sadiq is a software engineer for Johns Hopkins Libraries and has over 20 years of experience in open source technologies. Farooq leads the Technology Committee at GreenMount. |
| Shannon Snow: Community Board Member |
| Shannon Snow works as Projects Director at Episcopal Housing Corporation, a nonprofit real estate developer specializing in the development of affordable housing and community facilities. |
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