Board of Trustees

Leslie Agard-Jones
Leslie Agard-Jones

Former Dean, College of Education, William Paterson University.

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Mohamed el-Filali

Outreach Director, Islamic Center of Passaic County.

Danforth Ely
B. Danforth Ely

Vice President, The 1772 Foundation. The foundation works to restore America's historical treasures. Dan is a retired, long-time Citibank executive, and a descendant of three Paterson industrialists: John Ryle, William Strange, and Charles Danforth. He is a lifelong New Jersey resident.

Diane Haines

Journalist. Member of the family who founded and owned newspapers in Paterson. Edward B. Haines started publishing the Paterson Morning Call in 1886.

Professor Jerold S. Kayden
Professor Jerold S. Kayden

Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Design, Harvard University. Professor Kayden is co-author of Landmark Justice, an analysis of the historic preservation and land-use opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., who began his judicial career as a superior court judge in Paterson.

 

Lawrence F. Kramer
Lawrence F. Kramer

Executive Vice President, V. Paulius & Associates. Former mayor who, along with his late wife Mary Ellen, began efforts to preserve the Great Falls Historic District. Former N.J. Commissioner of Community Affairs. He is a lifelong resident of Paterson.

Richard Polton
Richard Polton

Partner, Value Research Group. Richard is a city planner and real estate expert at Value Research Group, a real estate consulting firm based in New Jersey. He is an Eastside High School graduate.

Arlene Petronzi Sarappo
Arlene Petronzi Sarappo

Trustee, Ridgewood Public Library/ Pease Memorial Library. Arlene is a former educator and education consultant. She is a graduate of Eastside High School.

Adele Chatfield Taylor
Adele Chatfield Taylor

President and CEO, American Academy in Rome. A resident of New York City, she studied Paterson while a student in the historic preservation program at Columbia University where she worked with local officials in early planning for what would become the Paterson Great Falls National Historic Landmark District.

Martin Vergara
Martin Vergara

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. After living in New York, he recently moved back to Paterson, where his grandfather had settled after leaving Puerto Rico and where his parents now live. Drafted by the Cleveland Indians out of high school, he chose to go to college instead, and he now spends his weekends and vacations running a youth program he created that engages younger Patersonians in baseball at Larry Doby Field.

Leonard A. Zax

President, Hamilton Partnership for Paterson. Leonard is a lawyer and a city planner with more than thirty years of experience in community development and historic preservation projects throughout the United States. A former partner in the law firm of Latham & Watkins, he has taught a course on Historic Preservation and Urban Revitalization at Harvard University. He is a graduate of Eastside High School.