Board of Trustees

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Sonja de Groot Kim

Sonja de Groot Kim was a Randolph School parent for 15 years, from 1976-1991. Her three children, Saskia, Roeland and Sander all graduated from Randolph School. She has spent her career as an early childhood educator, specializing in children from birth –grade 2. She received her Ph.D. from NYU and is currently teaching at Pace University where she also coordinates the masters program in Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Administration. Her areas of interest and expertise are the development of children’s play, children’s development of friendship inclusive settings, early childhood literacy, mixed-age groupings, the Reggio Emilia approach to education, and the development of integrated curricula.

Ken Lerner

Ken Lerner has been closely involved with The Randolph School in one capacity or another for over fifteen years. His two children are Randolph alums; between them he has accumulated over 17 parent-years at the school. Ken has participated in a variety of school projects, including: Erecting basketball hoops, building shelves, hanging easels, raking leaves, painting stairs, adopting Guinea Pigs and chaperoning school trips to Sturbridge Village, Belleayre Ski Area, and Great Adventure. He has guest lectured on the history of The Titanic disaster, and (with his son) taught an elective Introduction to Programming class. In his career as a professional student, Ken has accumulated a B.A. in English, and a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science. He is gainfully employed by the IBM Corporation. Ken has been a Randolph board member since 2002.

In June, 2006, Randolph School parent and board member, Ken Lerner, gave the commencement speech at our first High School graduation. Read his eloquent perspective on Randolph School's philosophy here.

Tom Peck

Tom Peck became involved with the Randolph School when their oldest daughter started school in 1977. Two years later their second daughter also joined the school. Over the eight years of involvement with the school the family enjoyed raking leaves, potluck dinners, painting, making repairs, and maple syrup before moving to Colorado. During this time he was involved in the design and construction of the shop and library additions to the main building.

Tom has a BS degree in Fisheries Science from Colorado State University and an MS degree in Fisheries from the University of Washington. He and his wife spent two years with Peace Corps in Uganda and he worked eight years in conjunction with fisheries in the Hudson River. Tom joined the Randolph School board in 2006 and is a member of the Building Committee.

Kitama Seeger Jackson

Kitama Seeger Jackson is a documentary filmmaker who has worked on 25 documentaries for the Travel Channel, History Channel, PBS and theatrical release over the past seven years. His credits include Associate Producer on “Pete Seeger: Power of Song” and as Assistant Editor on Martin Scorsese’s series “The Blues.”

In 2005 he started his own production company, Black Wasp Productions. He is currently producing, directing and shooting a feature documentary, “Children of Prisoners,” which looks at how incarceration is affecting children and families throughout the United States. He is also working on a Travel Channel show on Super Yachts and is freelancing as a Cinematographer for various non-profit organizations, for-profit corperations, individuals and independent filmmakers. In the Spring of 2006 he donated his time to Randolph by filming a promotional video for the school.

Kitama started a film production program for the Fresh Air Fund in 2002 and is currently starting a film program at SEBCO, a settlement house and community center in the South Bronx. He also teaches filmmaking to third graders at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side.

Kitama attended Randolph School from Kindergarden through sixth grade (1986 to 1993). He then attended Poughkeepsie Day School, Oakwood Friends School and then Poughkeepsie Day School again. He graduated from Hampshire College in 2003. Randolph has always been a big part of his family's life. His cousin Tao attended the school in the late 70's and his sister Moraya attended the school in the mid-nineties. He is most proud of the fact that three of his closest friends to this day he met twenty years ago at Randolph - Gerald DeLisser, Evan Chadwick and Laura Hughes.

He has been involved in the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater for his entire life in various capacities. He currently serves on their board and his girlfriend Jeannine Cahill is their Onboard Educator. Kitama and Jeannine live in Harlem.

As a board member Kitama is most interested in racial and socio-economic diversity amongst the students and raising staff salaries.

Kate Stover

She was one of the first students at the Randolph Avenue School location in Poughkeepsie and moved with the school to Wappingers Falls, leaving at the end of 6th grade when the school didn't go any higher. Her family has been connected to the school since the beginning. Her mother worked to set up the school and create the library. Kate's brothers attended the school; one brother, Lanse, is a current board member.

Today she lives in Philadelphia and her children attend a large urban Quaker school. She is currently the Chair of the Parents' Association where she is the liaison for 740 families, raises funds, troubleshoots, manages ten committees, and oversees a budget. Her goal for her time on the board is to raise money for Randolph School scholarships and increase teacher salaries.

Lanse Stover

He attended the Randolph School from its first year in 1963 until 1966. After graduating from the Putney School in Putney, VT in 1971, he attended Goddard College in Vermont and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1976. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado in 1982, and then worked in construction until setting up his ceramics studio in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1985, where he resides. He has been active as a studio artist since then, with some teaching stints at art centers and colleges. His work has been exhibited in numerous shows around the United States. He is married with two daughters, 17 and 20 years old.

Lanse's father, Robert Stover, was a trustee of the Randolph School for many years until his death in 1984, and Lanse joined the board shortly thereafter. He has always believed that the Randolph School is a unique and precious educational institution, practicing a truly child-centered approach to learning long before it became popular to pay lip service to that ideal. He has watched the growth and maturity of the school with pleasure and looks forward to celebrating many more anniversaries with Randolph.

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