President

Craig J. Heimbuch is an award-winning author and journalist, a best-selling ghostwriter, and the Chief Creative Officer at Farm Journal, the leading US agricultural trade and business magazine. He is a husband of one and father of three.

Holly Bull is the President of the Center for Interim Programs, an independent gap-year counseling service in Princeton, NJ. She is one of the original Interim students. When her father, Cornelius Bull, founded the Center for Interim Programs in 1980, she was inspired to take a gap year before college. After two years of college, Holly took a second gap … Read More

Christine Abrahams, Ed.D, NCC, LPC, LMHC, ACS, is a mental health counselor in SW Florida and New Jersey. She is an instructor and mentor at New Jersey Excel Program, and owner of The InSpire Institute, LLC, an educational consulting firm. Dr. Abrahams has a long-standing history of collaborating within school systems and programs in the state of New Jersey, specifically … Read More

Partner in the Hartsough, Kenny, Chase, and Sullivan law firm focusing on real estate law. Chris graduated from Cornell University and Villanova Law School, where he served on the Villanova Law Review. He holds leadership positions in a number of Princeton-area non-profit organizations and serves as counsel to numerous educational organizations.

Derek is the founder and Executive Director of Bridgetown, a leadership coaching and mentoring organization focused on the development of new and emerging leaders of color. Prior to starting Bridgetown, Derek worked at Turnaround for Children as the Chief Program Officer. In this role, Derek led the ongoing development and refinement of Turnaround’s programmatic strategy and model and ensured that … Read More

Jane Fremon grew up in Princeton, attended Princeton High School, and entered Princeton University in 1970 as a member of the second class of women. She launched her career as an educator at a small elementary school in Roosevelt, NJ, while pursuing a master’s degree in education from the Bank Street College of Education, and then spent six years teaching … Read More

A former public school educator of 22 years, Will Richardson has spent the last 15 years developing an international reputation as a leading thinker and writer about the intersection of social online learning networks, education, and systemic change. Most recently, Will is a co-founder of The Big Questions Institute which was created to help educators use “fearless inquiry” to make sense … Read More

Timothy Quinn is marketing and communications director for Princeton Public Library. He has devoted the better part of two decades to volunteer advocacy work for youth, including seven years on the Princeton Board of Education (three as president), where he focused on student wellness and educational equity. Tim is co-chairman of the Anchor House Ride For Runaways, an annual weeklong … Read More

Peter Bergson began his career in 1967 at Synectics, Inc., a consulting firm that specialized in creative group problem solving. Having recently read John Holt’s How Children Fail, he soon realized that what he was doing was teaching adults how to think like toddlers, thereby reversing the effects of conventional schooling. He married Susan Shilcock in 1975, and together they founded a preschool/kindergarten … Read More