Jennifer Price-Wallin Named Chair of the Board of Trustees

Rowland Hall is thrilled to announce the Board of Trustees has named Jennifer Price-Wallin chair of the board, effective August 12, 2024. 

This change in board leadership follows Sarah Lehman’s decision to resign as chair to move to California, where her youngest son is attending school. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Sarah for her years of service, and especially for her work around our strategic priorities and capital campaign. Sarah will continue to be a strong advocate and ambassador for the school, and we wish her and her family the very best.

Jennifer has assumed leadership of the board through the end of Sarah’s term (June 30, 2026). She is an ideal successor to Sarah, bringing to the role a breadth of professional experience as well as deep understanding of our board, school, community, and vision for what’s possible in education. Jennifer has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2006 and has held a number of committee leadership positions during her tenure, including chair of the Building Committee, co-chair of the Head Support and Evaluation Committee, and chair of the Development Committee. She also served as chair of the Board of Trustees from 2016 to 2020, bringing to the position her extraordinary combination of insight, compassion, and dedication, as well as her unwavering commitment to student success and to the school’s inclusion and equity work.

“Jennifer is a tireless champion of Rowland Hall and has greatly contributed to positioning us as the school we are today,” said Head of School Mick Gee.

We are grateful to Jennifer for stepping into the board chair role for a second time, and confident in and excited about her ability to steadfastly and seamlessly lead Rowland Hall at this pivotal moment.

Four New Trustees Join Rowland Hall in 2024–2025 School Year

On July 1, 2024, Rowland Hall welcomed four new members to our Board of Trustees.

Connie Dooley

Connie Dooley grew up in Baltimore and graduated from Grinnell College (Iowa) with bachelor of arts degrees in biology and French. She earned her PhD in cell biology and anatomy from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one at the Eppley Cancer Center (Omaha, NE) and one in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah, where she studied embryonic brain development.

Connie stepped away from biomedical research after having her two children and has since pursued volunteer work as a board member at the Community Cooperative Nursery School and as a board member of the air quality nonprofit Breathe Utah. Connie volunteered as a reading tutor in the Granite School District for several years, working with elementary school students learning English as a second language. She has also served on the McCarthey Campus and Lincoln Street Campus Home & School boards in various roles. In her spare time, Connie plays cello in the University Medical Orchestra at the University of Utah.

Connie and her husband, Rod Miles, live in Salt Lake City with their two children, Rebecca (12th) and Andrew (9th).

Josh Kanter

Josh Kanter started his career as a lawyer focusing on corporate and securities law. After his father’s death in 2001, Josh left private practice to run the family’s single-family office where, for the past 20-plus years, he has been responsible for multigenerational, multibranch communication; governance and education; family meeting design and facilitation; tax and estate planning; business and investment structuring; risk management; and more. Josh also works with other families on many of these same issues.

Recently, Josh founded leafplanner, a digital information platform designed to replicate his family’s “owner’s manual”—a tool to identify, collect, organize, and communicate information from the disparate parts of a family’s ecosystem in order to identify blind spots, share information, educate family members and advisors, and provide a more holistic succession of information for families.

Josh is a member of various family office groups and has been a frequent author and panelist on family and family office topics. He is a director and vice president of the Kanter Family Foundation and has served on the boards of numerous for-profit and nonprofit organizations. This board work includes a previous term on the Rowland Hall Board of Trustees (2011–2017), where Josh was the founding chair of the Investment Committee and co-chair of the Capital Campaign Steering Committee.

Josh received his JD from the University of Chicago in 1987. He earned a BA/BS in economics and political science from Emory University in 1984. Josh and his wife, Catherine, are parents of two Rowland Hall alumni.

Mikelle Moore

Mikelle Moore is a nationally recognized health executive with more than 25 years of experience leading the change necessary to improve health outcomes with sustainable and equitable solutions.

Mikelle is the co-creator of Multiplier Advisors, the country’s first impact consulting firm founded to support health-focused impact investors, bringing unparalleled expertise in aligning investments and other assets with social determinants of health to create healthy communities. She is also strategy advisor to the Healthcare Anchor Network, a fellow at Health Evolution, and an executive in residence at the Health Management Academy and the Scottsdale Institute. 

Mikelle was named one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Women Leaders in 2021, and appeared on the publication’s Women to Watch list in 2019. During her tenure at Intermountain Health, she served as senior vice president, chief community health officer, president of the Intermountain Community Care Foundation, and the first female CEO of the system’s flagship hospital. Mikelle has served as board chair and continues to serve on several nonprofit boards and as an advisor to business and the state of Utah at the intersection of health and public-private partnership.

Mikelle and her husband are the proud parents of four teenagers (including two Winged Lions) and a pet therapy sheepadoodle.

Zachary Smith

Utah natives Zachary Smith and his wife, Janelle, have been part of the Rowland Hall community since 2006, along with their three children, Zander ’19, Ozzie ’22, and Zakrie ’24. 

Zach’s career spans over 25 years in banking and investment management. He is currently managing director for Morgan Stanley's private markets distribution team, focused on scaling institutional assets invested across the Morgan Stanley private credit and equity platform. Zach is former strategic advisor and founding investor in Redemption Holding Company, an African American–led minority depository institution, to be headquartered in his hometown, Salt Lake City.

Zach was most recently a managing director at Crescent Capital Group on the investor relations team, building strategic partnerships with insurance companies, US public pensions, and their consultants. Previously, Zach spent 20 years at Wells Fargo Asset Management in a variety of roles, including investor relations and portfolio management. He began his career at Zions Bancorporation while earning a finance degree from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.

Zach is an impassioned ambassador for creating opportunity within the Black community. He serves on the Board of Directors for the National Black Bank Foundation and is a founding board member of the University of Utah’s HBCU IMPACT Program, an internship program focused on post-graduate education and employment with HBCUs (historically Black colleges and universities) nationwide.

In Memory of Wood Moyle ’90

Our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Rowland Hall parent, alumnus, and trustee Wood Moyle ’90, who passed away on May 19 following surgical complications.

In addition to being an engaged and active parent to his children, Ocky (11th) and Emma (kindergarten), Wood was a devoted Rowland Hall alumnus and volunteer. Over his 11-year tenure on the Board of Trustees, he served as chair of the Nominating Committee and the Capital Campaign Committee, led the Headmaster’s Council, and contributed significantly to the Governance Task Force. Wood’s unwavering commitment to Rowland Hall has been immeasurable and his impact will undoubtedly be felt for many years.

In Memory of Cary Jones

Our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Rowland Hall trustee, alumnae parent, and former board chair Cary Jones, who passed away unexpectedly on September 14.

Over the last 28 years, Cary has had a profound impact on our school community. A proud Rowland Hall parent to Molly Jones ’07 and Megan Jones-Shiotani ’05, Cary first joined the Board of Trustees in 1996, serving for 13 years, including a term as board chair (2001–2004). During these years, Cary shared his knowledge as a real estate transactional attorney to negotiate the sale of the former Avenues Campus and the acquisition of the McCarthey Campus. He was also instrumental in fundraising for the McCarthey Campus.

In July 2020, Cary rejoined the board to assist with the Richard R. Steiner Campus capital campaign and campus plans; this included serving as chair of the Campus Planning Committee. Cary also played a crucial role in negotiating the agreement for the mountain expansion project at Utah Olympic Park, a training facility for Rowmark Ski Academy, in 2019.

Perhaps the top testament of Cary’s contributions to the Rowland Hall community is the Cary Jones Faculty Mentor Award, established through an anonymous gift in honor of Cary’s dedication to the faculty when he was chair of the board. For more than 20 years, this award has recognized outstanding Rowland Hall faculty, and it will continue to keep his memory alive in our school community.

RSVP for Cary’s upcoming celebration of life.

Banner photo: Jennifer Price-Wallin, far left, with community members—including members of the Steiner family and school trustees—at the Richard R. Steiner Campus groundbreaking in April 2024.

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