Your Important Vote is needed!
Posted by Jacqui MudreDear Parents,
Your individual input is requested and greatly appreciated…
The terms of our current Unquowa Board of Governors members as the Class of 2026 are coming to an end. We are pleased to share that five members have agreed to continue their service for an additional three-year term, transitioning them into the new Class of 2029. The Board has successfully voted to approve this action.
Each of our parents are considered part of the Unquowa Association and are requested to also vote to help ratify the recent action taken by the BOG to reappoint the following five members.
Please take a moment to vote on the Board of Governors Class of 2029.
- Jenah Yeung
- Robin Pompa
- Hilary Tanner
- Trisha Sorrells Doyle
- Nick Alexander
Please submit your important vote by May 30, 2026. Your participation is essential. Without sufficient parent votes to ratify this Board of Governors slate, the board will be unable to conduct official business in the upcoming 2026-2027 school year.
Get to know the Class of 2029:
Jenah Yeung
Jenah Yeung was born in a small town in the Philippines and immigrated to the USA at the age of 10. She lived in Queens, NY for 12 years, and at the age of 22, she graduated from St. John’s University with a Doctorate in Pharmacy, making her one of the youngest doctoral graduates in the University’s history at the time. She moved to Branford, Connecticut after graduation and worked as a staff pharmacist for Walgreens Co. for 8 years in various locations before acquiring Reliant Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy, in 2013 with her husband Dr. Jack Yeung. In 2022, they purchased Compounded Solutions Pharmacy in Monroe. Jack and Jenah’s dedication to serving their community led them to open a new venture closer to home. Reliant Compounded Solutions has been open in Southport since May 2023. Jenah lives in Fairfield with her husband, four children (Jax ‘25, an Unquowa graduate and currently a freshman at Hopkins, Alysa ‘27, Charlie ‘30, Kenzo ’32) and their three beloved dogs Stitch, Moji, & Cosmo. During the school year, Jenah enjoys volunteering as a room rep for multiple grades and being part of the auction committee, and tries to plan as many playdates for the kids (and parents!) as possible. In her spare time, Jenah loves dining out, watching movies, planning adventures, and traveling with her family.
Robin Pompa
Robin is a writer with a biology and psychology background, and the proud parent of four Unquowa students. Robin graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Neuroscience and Behavior and pursued a PhD in Neural Science from NYU before shifting gears to travel and write. She worked in Indonesia, Cambodia, Jordan, Iraq and Sudan, for companies doing development work and pursuing her own projects. Coming back to the States, she took journalism classes at Harvard and began working as a health and science journalist, covering breakthroughs in neuroscience, medicine, and psychology for the lay public. In this vein, she published the book Allergy-Free Kids; The Science-based Approach to Preventing Food Allergies with Harper Collins. More recently, she has been studying fiction writing at Yale. While American, more than half of Robin’s parenting experience has been in England. Upon moving her family back to the US, she struggled at first to find a community and a culture to replace the wholesome feeling of the small rural school her kids attended abroad. Unquowa arrived on the scene like a beacon of hope, and it has more than delivered.
Hilary Tanner
Hilary grew up in Wilton, where she had first-hand experience in both public and private school settings. She graduated magna cum laude from Colgate University with a BA in Economics. After school, Hilary pursued a career in finance and investment management, having worked in multiple roles at Bridgewater Associates over 20 years (most recently Chief of Staff to the CFO) and, prior to that, Rede d’Or in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hilary is passionate about education and building strong economic and social communities and has served as Board Secretary for Children’s Community Development Center in Westport and was a member of the Partnership for Community Development in Hamilton, NY. Hilary, her husband Greg and their boys Henry (‘21) and William (’24) currently live in Westport with their beloved rescue pup, Dak.
Trisha Sorrells Doyle
Trisha is the Co-Founder of Upper West Side Media, a research and development company focused on non-fiction programming. Over the past ten years, UWS Media has contributed to hundreds of hours of television and presentation content for all four major television networks, CNN, PBS, and streaming platforms such as Hulu, Paramount , and Discovery , as well as for organizations including The Rockefeller Foundation and The Ford Foundation. Prior to founding UWS Media, Trisha was an award-winning producer of documentaries for network and cable outlets including 60 Minutes, ESPN’s E:60, and 20/20. Trisha also served as a guest adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism. She began her journalism career as an unpaid intern at ABC News after completing her law degree at Columbia Law School. Prior to law school, Trisha worked in the Congressional Affairs section at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana University with a double major in Political Science and East Asian Language and Literature. Trisha and her husband Mark are the proud parents of Weston ’25 and reside in Redding, CT.
Nick Alexander
Nick grew up in Arizona, earning his BA from Arizona State University and going on to earn graduate degrees in law at the University of San Francisco, and business at the Thunderbird School of Management. While a trained lawyer, Nick has spent his professional life in finance. This includes leading the U.S. rail practice for a European bank as well as work structuring renewable energy financings before moving permanently into CFO roles for venture and growth businesses with a focus on sustainability. Nick also started a local recycling company in Fairfield focused on hard to recycle electronic items (batteries, lightbulbs, etc.). Nick and his wife Lindsay moved to Fairfield in 2020 and were thrilled to join the Unquowa community in 2023. Their household includes two children (Ines ’26 and Ellie ’28) as well as a loveable pit/linebacker mix named Gabe.
You can also – Cast Your Vote Here!
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Official Bylaws:
2026-2027 NOTICE
ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Under the existing Bylaws of The Unquowa School Association, Incorporated (the “Association”), the Board of Governors (the “Board”) consists of up to nineteen (19) Members, eighteen of whom are elected by the Board (subject to ratification by the Members of the Association) and one of whom is a Member of the Board by virtue of holding the position of President of the Unquowa Parents’Association. The 18 members of the Board who are elected by the Board are elected to 3-year terms, which are staggered so that only one-third of the Board is elected each year. One group of six (6) governors (or “Class”) is elected each year by the Board at the April Board meeting [unless the Board pursuant to the Bylaws determines to reduce the size of the Board] and the governors so elected are subject to ratification by the Members of the Association. All current parents at Unquowa School and all members of the Board are Members of the Association and ratification of the newly elected governors requires a majority vote of the members of the Association in person, by proxy, or by email. Governors in each Class hold office for a term of three (3) years or until their respective successors are elected. At this year’s May Board meeting, six (6) nominees have been elected by the Board as Members of the Board of Governors to serve, if ratified, for three (3) year terms expiring in June, 2029. The Board will elect its officers for the 2026/2027 year by the end of the 2025-2026 academic year.
The Board of Governors may also fill vacancies on the Board, which are created through the departure of previously elected and ratified Board Members and the persons so appointed hold office until the expiration of the term they were appointed to fill. The Bylaws do not require appointments to vacancies be ratified by the Membership of the Association.
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