* denotes Alumni Trustee elected for four-year term
Jonathan D. Albert ’79
J. Hord Armstrong III ’59
Drummond C. Bell III ’63
Henry G. Brauer ’74
Jennifer L. Burns ’93*
Irene Chu
John W. Dayton ’64
Holcombe T. Green III ’87
Jonathan M. Harris ’90
Sarkis D. Izmirlian ’90
James A. Jacobson ’62
Jay F. Krehbiel ’97
Karin B. Kukral
Leslie H. Lanahan ’73
Leslie B. Littlejohn
William R. MacMullen ’78, Headmaster
George B. Moore ’87
Rodman W. Moorhead III ’62, Board Chair
Nancy N. O’Neill
Donald Pascal, Parents’ Fund Chair
Maris Pascal, Parents’ Fund Chair
E. Marc Pinto ’79
Grant A. Porter ’69
Lexi Brownell Reese ’92*
G. Carter Sednaoui
Dylan T. Simonds ’89, Annual Fund Chair
Karen L. Stevenson ’75*
Hank L. Torbert ’90
Steven B. Turner ’86*
Archbold D. van Beuren ’75
Abra Prentice Wilkin
John P. Wold ’71
Ivy Kwok Wu
Yi-ming Yang ’87
Joanne K. Ziesing ’78
Taft Alumni Trustee
Jennifer L. Burns '93
Jennifer followed her siblings Christine, Gregory and Timothy to Taft. Arriving as a mid, she quickly began dividing her time between classroom, rink and the offices of the Taft Papyrus. She remembers Bill Nicholson's honors English class as the place she first learned the craft of writing, and credits Lance Odden, Mike Maher and Bob Boothby with sparking a lifelong love of history. Jennifer played defense for the three-time New England Championship ice hockey team and was co-editor of the Papyrus during her senior year. She graduated magna cum laude and was awarded the Bourne Medal in history.
At Harvard, she put her Taft education to good use as a history major, writer and editor for the Let's Go series of travel books and star of her dorm's intramural hockey team. After graduating, Jennifer worked at Harvard Business School, writing cases on Nike's global labor practices, Chevron and environmental regulation and the DeBeers diamond cartel.
Pursuing her own scholarly interests full time, Jennifer began a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and wrote a dissertation about the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. After two years of post-doctoral teaching at Berkeley and a one-year fellowship at Stanford, Jennifer became an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on modern American political, cultural and intellectual history.
At UVA, Jennifer served as a resident faculty fellow in an undergraduate dorm, a member of her department's graduate committee and as an informal mentor to graduate students.
In 2009, she published her first book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, which received rave reviews in the New Yorker, Time and the Washington Post, among other publications. She appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and on NPR and was named a Top Young Historian by the History News Network. In 2010, she was appointed a distinguished lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. She maintains free podcasts of her history lectures on iTunes.
Jennifer lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband, Nick Cizek, a physicist. In their free time, she and Nick enjoy salsa dancing, biking and skiing.
Each year, Taft alumni elect a member of their own to serve a four-year term on the school’s board of trustees.
Ballots are mailed in March and votes are due two weeks before Alumni Weekend, when the results are announced at the Alumni Luncheon.
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