Welcome New Trustees

The Bryn Mawr School Board of Trustees is pleased to welcome four new members who begin three-year terms this year: Sara Burch Khairallah ’94, Christopher Lenox P’35, Cheryl Mickel P’22, ’25 and Paola Sansur M.D. ’91 P’25. Additionally, Little School teacher Sumayyah Honeyblue will serve as a new faculty representative and Jenny German Nugent ’92 P’24 as President of the Alumnae Association. Read more about them below. 

 

Sara Burch Khairallah ’94 earned a B.A. in economics from Dartmouth College and is completing her M.Sc. from The London School of Economics in International Strategy and Diplomacy. Sara’s academic work focuses on foreign direct investment and economic statecraft. Sara is a Senior Advisor to the Association of Marshall Scholars where she was most recently Director of British Affairs. She is a Fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. Sara worked as Counsellor for the US and Americas Programme at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. She advised the private equity and alternatives sectors as a senior associate at Campbell Lutyens, London. Prior to this, Sara oversaw direct and fund investments in the U.S., Europe and China as an Associate at Guggenheim Partners in New York. Sara started her career in Investment Banking at JP Morgan and subsequently at Goldman Sachs in New York. Sara is on Dartmouth’s regional campaign committee for Europe, Middle East and Africa, which has raised over $3.5bn to meet a range of objectives, including the provision of need-blind admissions to international student applicants. 

 

Christopher Lenox P’35 is the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Johns Hopkins University.  In this role, Chris helps oversee all aspects of the investment program for endowment and other investment assets for the University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and affiliated organizations.  Before coming to Johns Hopkins University, Chris worked in the investment offices of Princeton University and Brandeis University.  Prior to that, Chris worked at Millgate Capital, an international long-short equity fund manager and Goldman Sachs, most recently in the Principal Strategies group. Chris holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and received a B.S. in Economics from Duke University.  Chris and his wife, Karyn, are the parents of Sera ’35 and Andrew (Gilman ’34).

Cheryl Mickel P’22, ’25 is head of the Low Duration team and a co-portfolio manager of the US Short Duration Income and Stable Value Intermediate Term Strategies in the Fixed Income Division. She is president and an Investment Advisory Committee member of the Short-Term Bond Fund, and a vice president and Investment Advisory Committee member of the Government Money and Tax-Exempt Money Funds. She is a member of the Board of Directors of T. Rowe Price Trust Company; the chair of the T. Rowe Price Trust Company Investment Committee; a member of the Fixed Income Steering, Multi-Asset Steering, and Valuation Committees; and a trustee of the T. Rowe Price Foundation. Cheryl is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Trust Company. Cheryl has been with T. Rowe Price since 1989, beginning in the Fixed Income Division. In 1997, she became a taxable portfolio manager, and in 2015, she assumed her current role. Cheryl earned a B.S. in economics from the University of Baltimore and an M.B.A. from Loyola University Maryland.

Paola Sansur M.D. ’91 P’25 is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1991 and received her B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University with a major in public health. After studying Medicine at the American University of the Caribbean, she completed both her Adult Psychiatry residency and Child Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Maryland-Sheppard Pratt Hospitals where she earned the John Talbott Award for clinical excellence. She has served as the Medical Director for an outpatient community mental health clinic in Baltimore City for six years before establishing her full-time private practice with a focus on depression, anxiety and ADHD. She and her husband, Frank Sifakis, are the parents of Penelope ’25 and George (Gilman ’28).

Additionally, we welcome to the Board of Trustees Jenny German Nugent ’92 P’24, as President of the Alumnae Association and Sumayyah Honeyblue as the Faculty Representative.

Jenny German Nugent ’92 P’24 serves as the Chief of the Development Review Division at the Baltimore County Department of Planning. She’s been working with the County for 20 years and is responsible for managing the Planning Board, Design Review Panel and Landmarks Preservation Commissions. 

Jenny was a star athlete at Bryn Mawr. She earned 12 varsity letters in field hockey, soccer and lacrosse and served in several officer positions with the Athletic Association. After graduating from Bryn Mawr, Jenny attended the University of Maryland where she received a B.A. in art history, a B.S. in landscape architecture and certificates in archaeology and historic preservation. She continued her athletic career at Maryland and was a member of two NCAA National Championship Teams for Women’s Lacrosse in 1995 and 1996. 

Sumayyah Honeyblue joined the Bryn Mawr School in June 2021 and an educator since 2019. Her teaching philosophy begins with creating a safe place for her students and ensuring they have what they need. Sumayyah believes that by being an aura of peace, children thrive and grow in a space that is welcoming and warm. She is currently working towards obtaining her degree in Early Childhood Education. She also has credentials at a Level 4 through the Maryland State Department of Education.She is an entrepreneur In her spare time, runnings a small cookie business called The Cookie Chemist.