BOARD MEMBERS
Gillespie Forum Chair, Board Member since 2008,
Professor of History, History Department Chair and Honors Coordinator at Dutchess Community College, Handel Foundation Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2008-2013, President of the Dutchess County Historical Society from 2003 to 2007.
Gillespie Forum Co-Chair, Gillespie Forum Board Member since 2010,
Associate Professor and Chair of Communications and Media Arts, Dutchess Community College, Director, Eli Jaffe Film Competition,Chairman of the Board of Public Access Northern Dutchess Area.
Secretary, Gillespie Board Member since 2011, Marketing & Communications professional with a background in regional workforce development.
Treasurer, Founding Member of the Gillespie Forum,
Retired Dentist, Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Mid-Hudson Valley,
Asst. Treasurer of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie.
Gillespie Board Member since 2011,
Professional Lecturer of Media Arts, Avid Certified
Instructor, Marist College.
Gillespie Forum Board Member,
Vice President of Organizational Development and Human Resources at Ulster Savings Bank. She was the
founder and managing member of RSK Compliance Consulting Services, LLC
and is an attorney admitted in New York State. She is a graduate of
Dutchess Community College, Vassar College and Pace University School of
Law.
Gillespie Board Member,
Former Dean of Academic Affairs, Dutchess Community College, Former Executive Vice President Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka AK, Former Interim Vice President Academic and Student Affairs, Adirondeck Community College, member of the World Affairs Council for the Mid-Hudson Valley.
Gillespie Forum Board Member since 1994,
Professor Emeritus of Government, Dutchess Community College,
Adjunct professor, Political Science, Vassar College,
President, Board of Directors of the National Collegiate Conference Association
sponsor of the Model UN in New York City, Washington, D.C., China, Ecuador, and the Czech Republic,
Director, BOCES Summer Scholars Program at Vassar for Dutchess County High School
Seniors, author of The New Dynamics of Multilateralism (Westview Press 2011).
Gillespie Board Member since 2007,
Vice-President for Communications at Vassar College,
Member of the Board of Dutchess County Tourism.
Gillespie Forum Board Member since 1998,
Retired, Marist College, School of Management, Associate Dean and Associate Professor,Author of Statistical Methods for Researchers Made Very Simple (2000) and It’ s Great: Oops No It Isn’ t: Why Clinical Research Can’ t Guarantee the Right Medical Answers (2009); Faculty member, Center for Lifetime Study.
Gillespie Forum Board Member,
Professor of Management Studies, Marist College.
Gillespie Forum Board Member, President of the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley, Professor Emeritus, Vassar College, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of Political Science and International Relations, founding Director of the International Studies Program, former Dean of Freshmen, and Assistant to the President, Acting President of Vassar College in 1997 and again in 2003,
Fulbright scholar in India, Director of the American Studies Research Centre in Hyderabad from 1990-93, Distinguished Visiting Professor and Executive Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Gillespie Forum member since 2011,
Student of Political Science,Vassar College; Undergraduate Fellow, Fund for Theological Education
Gillespie Board Member since 2013,
Assistant Professor of Economics,Dutchess Community College.
Gillespie Board Member since 2013, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, History, Marist college.
Gillespie Board Member since 2013,
Director of International Services & Assistant Dean for Campus Life , Vassar College.
Gillespie Board Member since 2013,
Honors program at Dutchess Community College, A.S. Liberal Arts '14, has traveled to China three times with Dr. Joseph Norton's study abroad course.
