Jennifer Barnard
Chair of the Board
Jennifer Barnard serves as Chair of the Board. She has been an elementary school teacher in New York City, Massachusetts, and Westport, CT. She is currently the Board of Governors chair at Horizons at New Canaan Country School and the Secretary on the board of Child Advocates of SW Connecticut, where she is also a volunteer child advocate. She is a trained Orton Gillingham reading specialist and tutor. Jennifer received a BS in Management from Villanova and holds a Master’s in Elementary Education from Fordham University. She lives in Rowayton, Connecticut and has been a board member since 2019.
Keiley Fuller
Vice Chair of the Board
Board member Keiley Fuller has worked for Kelly Associates and Houlihan Lawrence, and has been a volunteer at the YWCA of Darien, Hindley School, Middlesex School, New Canaan Country School, and Westover School. She is also a successful real estate agent in Darien and one of the founding members of the Darien office of Compass Real Estate. Keiley is a University of Denver graduate and lives in Darien. She has been a board member since 2019.
Kristen Antonopoulos
Treasurer of the Board
Kristen Antonopoulos serves as Treasurer of the Board. She is currently a Finance Vice President at American Express, where she has worked for 17 years. Kristen received her MBA from New York University and holds a bachelor’s degree from Western Connecticut State University. Kristen lives in Stamford, and has been a board member since 2018.
Katherine Samy
Secretary of the Board
Katherine Samy serves as Secretary of the Board. She has coordinated the Annual Push-n-Pull Parade supporting the local VFW and has worked on fundraising events supporting ABC Darien for several years. She is a trained Sexual Assault Crisis Advocate and is pursuing a nursing degree to practice midwifery. Katherine earned an MA in Social and Political Science from the University of Cambridge and a post-graduate diploma in Law. She currently lives in Darien and has been a board member since 2022.
Callie Sullivan
Callie Sullivan was previously Vice President of Sales of HMSDesign, and has been an active volunteer of A Better Chance Darien, Planned Parenthood of Southern Connecticut, and Darien League of Women Voters. She is currently President of Sullivan Property Holdings. She served on the Darien Board of Education and the Darien Board of Selectmen, and she has been honored as a YWCA Woman of Distinction by the YWCA of Darien/Norwalk. She is a graduate of Williams College and lives in Darien. She has been a board member since 2018.
Elizabeth Koldyke Boolbol
Board member Elizabeth Koldyke Boolbol is the Founder and Board Chair of Partnership to End Human Trafficking (PEHT). She is also an active volunteer with World Vision, having served as Co-Chair of its Fairfield County chapter, and has served on the Parent Association Board of Stanwich School, the Board of Trustees of Greens Farms Academy, and the Elder Board of Stanwich Congregational Church in Greenwich. She received a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Business, and she currently lives in Greenwich. She has been a board member since 2019.
Matthew Brodacki
Officer Matthew Brodacki was a member of The Rowan Center Advisory Board for a decade before joining the Board. In his current capacity as Captain in Weston and leader of the Regional Technical Investigations Unit (TIU) for Southwestern Connecticut, he oversees a comprehensive portfolio of approximately 500 cyber cases a year. The unit specializes in protecting victims of sexual assault and Matthew has been deputized by the United States Secret Service. The TIU serves a population exceeding 1.1 million citizens across Judicial districts 1 and 20 in Fairfield County. His stewardship of a budget exceeding $3.1 million and leadership of a team of 18 technical investigators underscores the critical nature of his role, especially given the concentration of major financial institutions in Fairfield County, CT. Matthew currently resides in Trumbull.
Kim Ebbesen
Board member Kim Ebbesen has worked in Sales and Client Development at Equifax, and she opened and curated Dantique Corner, a Westport Danish antiquities shop. She has also successfully chaired numerous fundraising events for Greens Farms Academy, Horizons, and The Rowan Center while volunteering throughout the community. Kim currently serves on the board of Impact Fairfield County and lives in Westport. She graduated from Kent State University and has been a board member since 2021.
Samuelle Jacobs
Samuelle Jacobs spent her career in Finance before pivoting to real estate, where she worked as a Strategic Growth Manager for a real estate startup. She has been active in the Junior League of Greenwich since 2019 and currently serves as Project Director, following her tenure as Director of Communications. She is a native of Greenwich and serves on the Greenwich RTM as well as the board of Round Hill Nursery School. Sammie received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University. She currently resides in Greenwich.
Jennifer Marrone
Board Member Jennifer Marrone is an Ob/gyn MD specializing in Gynecology at Southport Women’s Healthcare. She is also a proud mother of two daughters, a wife, and an advocate for treating people with kindness and empathy. Her work in the sexual violence prevention field started in college, where she was trained as a counselor for RAINN. She volunteered at Albany Rape Crisis Center and in the New City NY Center as a rape crisis counselor.
After graduating residency at Bridgeport Hospital Yale New Haven Healthcare in 2008 as an Ob/gyn MD, Jennifer worked for a nonprofit Community Health Center serving the underprivileged population of Norwalk for 11 years. As a former professor at Quinnipiac Medical School and a current preceptor for the Sacred Heart PA program, Jennifer believes we all have a role in helping to change the world we live in. She currently resides in Westport.
Jennifer McMahon
Board member Jennifer McMahon brings marketing knowledge from a previous career in consumer packaged goods to her current work in real estate with William Raveis. Jennifer is an alumnus of Fairfield University and has held numerous volunteer positions throughout Fairfield County, including as a member of the Easton Racquet Club Board and a member of Impact, serving on the grant review committee. Jennifer has supported The Rowan Center as a member of the Gingerbread event committee in the past few years. She lives in Connecticut and has been a board member since 2022.
Michael O’Neill
Board member Michael O’Neill has over 30 years of experience leading not-for-profit organizations of various sizes in the USA and the United Kingdom. Michael has served on numerous domestic and international boards, including as a founding board member of a Dual Qualified USA/UK Donor Advised Fund and a UK-based law firm structured as a faith-based charity. In 2008, he was part of a team that worked together to create Restore NYC, which serves survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation. He is a graduate of the University of Mount Saint Vincent and has a Certificate in Not-for-Profit Management from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. A native New Yorker, Michael lives in North Stamford.
Lindsay Reed
Board Member Lindsay Reed is currently an associate in Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP’s litigation group. Prior to this role, she worked at Ryan, Ryan Deluca in insurance defense litigation and practiced family law in Stamford, CT. Lindsay serves on the Executive Board of the Fairfield County Bar Association, and she is a member of the CT Bar Association and the New York Bar Association. Lindsay received her BA in Political Science from Loyola University Maryland and her JD from New England Law Boston. She has been a board member since 2020.
Gene Schreiner
Board member Gene Schreiner has over 30 years of experience in commercial banking, lending, and credit, and is currently the Director of Commercial Lending at Housing Development Fund (HDF). Gene received a BS in Economics from Mount St. Mary’s College and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Stamford Chamber of Commerce and also on the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council. He currently lives in Fairfield and has been a board member since 2017.
Jen Weil
Board member Jen Weill spent her early career in San Francisco and Seattle, where she was the Director of Business Development at Oracle. She has been an active member of Impact Fairfield County for five years and has served on various committees, including Grant Review, Membership, Scholarship, and Mentorship. Her volunteer efforts have fueled her desire to help and serve the most underrepresented and impoverished communities in Fairfield County. Jen received her BS in International Relations & Public Affairs from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship, and she currently lives in Westport. She became a board member in 2023.
