Board of Directors
Josh Jones-Dilworth
Josh is an entrepreneur, marketing leader and teacher driven by the transformative experience he had at McDonogh School in Baltimore. In his entrepreneurial work, he founded JDI and leads the firm today as CEO. It is an integrated marketing firm that helps make precedent-setting science and emerging tech companies well known and understood. At JDI he is currently leading a team to create a new community called Penrose. They are convening 150 of the most consequential people in the science world — researchers, inventors, funders, nonprofit and government leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and storytellers. The goal: to be with each other at the edge of our thinking, against a backdrop of wicked interdisciplinary problems.
Along the way he has also co-founded Litmus Health (infrastructure for real-world evidence), The Daily Dot (the internet’s hometown newspaper), Culturati (the leading conference and community of company culture leaders) and New Civic (a project to catalyze American civic and philanthropic engagement). He is a co-owner of the science magazine Nautilus and proudly serves on its Board. His nonprofit and education work is extensive. He is the outgoing Board Chair of DivInc. He was an Advisor to Mayor Steve Adler for all 8 years of his time in office. He teaches part-time in the MBA in Entrepreneurship program at the Acton School of Business. He serves on the McDonogh School Board of Trustees.
Josh Jones-Dilworth, Board Chair
Julie is an experienced marketer with over a decade of senior executive experience in helping high-growth companies build positioning, products, organizations, and cultures that scale. She was most recently the CMO of GoNoodle, a kids media and technology company, where she helped parents and educators find new ways to keep kids physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy during COVID-19. Prior to that, Julie spent nearly two decades in agency PR culminating in her founding Inner Circle Labs, a marketing communications company focused on frontier technology, which was sold to Highwire PR in Jan. 2018.
Julie is deeply invested in creating strategies and stories that help the startups and organizations that are working to change the world. Outside of her advisory work, Julie spends her time mentoring women in business and working with organizations involved in fighting for immigrant detainee rights, equality in education, and the environment.
Julie Crabill
Dave Farace
Dave Farace, currently Head of School at McDonogh School, has dedicated his entire career to independent schools. His professional life started at McDonogh where, over the course of more than a decade, he held various positions including Director of Upper School Admissions, Director of Alumni Relations, and Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving. He also taught and coached middle and upper school students. In 2007, Dave moved to Alabama to be Director of Advancement and External Affairs at Randolph School in Huntsville. From there he went on to serve as Head of School at Montgomery Academy in Alabama and The Bolles School in Florida.
Dave holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree from Washington and Lee University and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree from Johns Hopkins University. He is also a NAIS/E.E. Ford Fellow, which is granted to individuals who successfully complete this distinguished leadership development program for independent school leaders. Dave and his wife, Becky, have three children who graduated McDonogh.
Dave Farace
Linda Haitani
Linda Haitani is an experienced business leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience working with private schools. As the Chief Innovation Officer at Clarity, she focuses on revolutionizing financial aid processes for K-12 schools. Linda also co-founded Ravenna Solutions, a groundbreaking admission software that has transformed the landscape of school admissions.
Her recent contributions include her active participation in the Future of Independent Schools committee at the National Association of Independent Schools. Linda holds an engineering degree from Princeton University and lives by the mantra “spreadsheets solve problems!”, a testament to her belief in the power of data-driven decision-making and innovation in solving challenges.
Linda Haitani
Michelle Lipkowitz
Michelle N. Lipkowitz is the Washington D.C. Office Managing Member and a Member of the Equity Advisory Council for Mintz. She focuses her practice on commercial litigation, white collar defense, and government investigations. Michelle has a breadth of litigation experience, including traditional criminal experience; and extensive experience with highly sensitive matters and crisis management, including handling the press. Her practice includes internal and external investigations, shareholder disputes, class actions, construction, and contractual disputes. She also has significant experience defending colleges and universities, and advising educational institutions.
Michelle has extensive experience before administrative bodies, and in state and federal courts throughout the country. She represents clients from a broad range of industries, including pharmaceutical, manufacturing, education, financial services, construction, and retail and telecommunications; as well as governmental entities and nonprofits. Michelle earned her J.D. from Georgetown Law, and her B.A. from Harvard University.
Michelle Lipkowitz
Paul T. Mumma
Paul is an experienced early stage startup executive, lecturer, strategy consultant and lawyer. He served as COO and CEO at Cerego (a leading adaptive learning tool used by universities and organizations around the world) for many years, and today works at Universe (the first website builder designed for iPhones). In these roles Paul has built products used by millions of people, and scaled and led teams of passionate people looking to improve education and work with software.
Paul frequently advises private equity firms with investment diligence issues across industries. He has taught at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania since 2017 and is a licensed attorney. He lives in the Boston area with his three sons and his wife Kirsten (an education policy researcher).
Paul T. Mumma
Ann Teaff
Ann began her career in education as a middle and upper school history teacher at University School of Nashville. Ann was Head of School at Harpeth Hall in Nashville from 1998-2014. In that role, she was responsible for the total management of the School (670 students, 150 faculty and staff) including support and selection of the faculty and administration, the admission and counseling of students, the financial viability of the School and subsequent fundraising, and the governance of the School through the work of the Board of Trustees. Before that, she was Head of Upper School from 1988-1998, and Assistant Head of School from 1991-1998 at the Garrison Forest School in Owings Mills, Maryland.
She is a member of National Coalition of Girls’ Schools, The Head Mistresses Association of the East, as well as the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls. In her association with these organizations, she has served as a leader, initiating conferences and chairing committees. Ann graduated from Fontbonne College with a Bachelors in history in 1969. She earned her Masters in the Art of Teaching from Vanderbilt University in 1971 and her Masters in Educational Administration from Columbia in 2000. In her studies, Ann conducted research, including design of the instrument, for a Geraldine Dodge Foundation study to determine the factors that attract and retain teachers.