Ryan Schofield was born in Hawaii and raised in Bellevue. He graduated from the Bush School during the grunge era and attended Bucknell University. He is the founder/principal of Aedifex, Inc., a boutique real-estate development and construction firm. Ryan was co-chair of the 2015–2016 SCDS Annual Fund and coached his daughters’ SCDS basketball teams from 2012–2019. His daughters, Emma ’18, and Maddie ’21, now attend the Bush School. When not working or volunteering at SCDS, Ryan can be found golfing, skiing, or attempting to keep up with his wife and girls.

A Seattle native, Jane Mills serves as the finance advisor to the board of Tillamook County Creamery and the chair of its finance and audit committee.  After she received a B.A. in history from Whitman College and an MBA in finance/accounting from the University of Chicago, Jane worked for HJ Heinz and PepsiCo and returned to Seattle, where she spent 20 years as the CFO for the Starbucks/Pepsi joint venture. She and her husband, Dan, live in the Green Lake neighborhood with their daughter, Katie (SCDS ’18). Jane has served on various community boards, including the audit committee at the Seattle Foundation and on the board of the Seattle Shakespeare Company; she also volunteers as a math tutor at Seattle World School. 

Catherine Burns Humbert ’91 is an alumna of SCDS and Lakeside School. She received a B.A. in Economics from Pomona College. While studying abroad in Strasbourg, France, she attended the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and met her husband, Olivier. They are the parents of two SCDS students (’22 and ’26). Together, Catherine and Olivier chaired the SCDS Annual Fund in 2018–2019. Catherine has been a longtime member of the investment committee for the Seattle/King County YWCA and several advisory boards for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Catherine is vice president at Goldman Sachs Personal Financial Management. She holds the designations of chartered financial analyst and certified financial planner.

Michael Lapin is a Seattle native but grew up in Tacoma. He spent 14 years at Charles Wright Academy (preschool through 12th grade) and has been a donor for over 30 years. Michael graduated from Williams College (Williams has the oldest alumni association in the world, and Michael has been donating to Williams for over 25 years) in 1993 with a degree in philosophy. Michael graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1996 and also holds an LLM in taxation from the University of Washington, where he met his wife, Karri. He worked for a couple of years at Arthur Andersen in Seattle; then at Graham & Dunn; followed by Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland, where he practiced a mix of tax and business law. In January 2005, Michael joined Philips and has been working with them in Bothell ever since. Michael and Karri’s son Ethan ’19 started at SCDS in kindergarten, as did their daughter, Willa ’21. Michael coached Ethan’s soccer team from K–2 and Willa’s from 1–8. Michael has also coached the Ultimate team in grades 3 and 4 for Ethan and 3–6 for Willa, as well as a couple of SCDS Spring Jam teams. Michael and Karri served as Annual Fund chairs (2016–17), setting records for both dollars raised as well as participation. Michael previously served on the leadership council for the Annual Fund and helped start and run the SCDS Book Swap. He and Karri are also devoted auction attendees — never having missed one!

Nazeema Alli is a parent to two SCDS students in the classes of ’28 and ’31. She has spent the last 10 years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, supporting initiatives that promote equitable educational opportunities and outcomes in the U.S. Prior to that, she spent five years at Microsoft in a finance leadership program. She received a BBA from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and an M.Ed. from Harvard University. 

A child of Guyanese-Muslim immigrants, Nazeema grew up in New York and deeply values diversity, inclusivity, and the intellectual curiosity it requires to participate in a thriving community. She actively participates in DEI efforts in the SCDS community and looks forward to bringing this perspective to her first year on the board.

Sue Belcher is the founding head of The Downtown School: A Lakeside School. She led the research and development of this innovative high school that uniquely equips students to ask important questions, generate creative solutions, and act from a sense of agency to implement their ideas — all key skills to attaining goals in education and in life. With a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Sue has teaching and administrative leadership experience in independent, public, and international schools. Originally from the Midwest, Sue holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s in library and information science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She lives in West Seattle with her husband, Joe, and her two elementary-aged children, Brody, and Charlie.

Brent Binge is general counsel and chief compliance officer at Steelhead Partners, LLC, an investment adviser and private fund manager. Prior to joining Steelhead, he was a director in the legal department of BlackRock, Inc. (formerly Quellos Group LLC), where he started as an associate general counsel in 2004. He began his legal career at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he focused on securities and investment adviser regulatory advice, private placements, and corporate legal matters. Brent graduated from the University of Puget Sound and received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. For SCDS, he co-chaired the school’s carnival in 2017 and 2018. He lives in the Eastlake neighborhood in Seattle with his wife, Tara, and their son, Henry ’22.

Kirsten has served in almost every independent school role — from teacher, to administrator, to student, to parent, to volunteer — and continues to synthesize her prior experience and apply it to SCDS. Kirsten spent her K–12 school years in two independent schools. She graduated from Brown University with a dual concentration in educational studies and philosophy. Kirsten holds an M.Ed. in early childhood and elementary education from Bank Street College of Education, and she worked at her alma mater, The Chapin School, as an assistant kindergarten teacher (three years) and later as a head kindergarten teacher (four years). While at Chapin, she also spent two years as director of lower school admissions. She is now the managing director of Harvard Avenue School (a local preschool), where she has worked from July 2007 to the present. Kirsten has been an active SCDS parent volunteer over the years. In addition to volunteering often at the classroom level, she chaired the New Family Committee for several years and served as Parent Council president for two years. Kirsten was the vice president of the board for the 2017–2018 school year, chaired the Advancement Committee for two years, co-chaired the Head of School Search Committee, and served as board president from 2018–2020. Kirsten's daughters are members of the SCDS classes of ’19 and ’21.  

A native of Seattle, Washington, and current resident of Queen Anne, John Cerqui majored in business at Pepperdine University before obtaining a law degree from Fordham University and a master’s in Tax Law (an LL.M.) from New York University. After clerking for a judge and working in the private sector at a Seattle law firm, he joined the in-house legal department at Seattle Public Schools in 1997. In his role as deputy general counsel, he is responsible for advising the school board, superintendent, and administrative staff on a range of educational and administrative issues, including budget, curriculum adoption, department reviews, employment matters, student discipline, facilities and operations, contracts, and litigation management. He has also been elected to other nonprofit boards, most recently the Network for Excellence in Washington Schools’ board, the group that coordinated the landmark lawsuit against the State of Washington for underfunding public education. John is the parent of an SCDS graduate (Andrew ’17) and served as the chair and co-chair of the SCDS Adopt-a-Street Committee for three years.

Madhu (sudan Hosaagrahara) grew up in Hyderabad, India, and received his B.Tech (Hon.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, in Kharagpur, India. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Drexel University in Philadelphia. He has lived in Seattle since 2006 and loves it here. His professional career has taken him to several companies, including Google, Facebook, and, more recently, the TradeDesk, with work spanning search, ads, Android, and infrastructure tools, with an emphasis on leading teams and helping organizations and processes adapt. His two children, Aadi ’28 and Aadhya ’30, are thriving and eagerly look forward to attending school every day. Madhu has served as a Parent Council representative, a Camp Orkila circle leader, a member of the Annual Fund team, and a parent ambassador, and he has helped with a number of other community-building events.

Andrew Hwangbo received his M.S. in civil engineering and his MBA from the University of Washington and Seattle University, respectively. Andrew spent the last 17 years with the Microsoft Corporation and currently leads a technical PM team in Azure. He has served, with his wife Yoo-Lee, as class representatives for the school’s Annual Fund for multiple years. The Hwangbo family lives in Madison Park with their children AJ, ’21 and Alex, ’25. 

Sarah Leung ’90 is an SCDS alumna, a parent of an SCDS alumnus (’21), and a parent of an SCDS intermediate student (’26). She chairs the board’s Governance Committee, and has served in a number of roles, including vice president and secretary. She is also a member of the SCDS Alumni Council. Previously, Sarah served for eight years on the board of directors of the Denise Louie Education Center, a multicultural early learning and family support organization for low-income families. She is general counsel at Wyze Labs, Inc., and received her J.D. from Duke University and her B.A. in American studies from Williams College.

Danna Redmond is a start-up advisor and strategy consultant with Mohair Consulting. Danna is an entrepreneur at heart, having started multiple companies after a 17-year career at Microsoft that spanned a variety of leadership roles in online advertising, customer services and support, information technology, and human resources. Danna is mom to an SCDS alumnus, Cole ’20. She has been active in the SCDS community as chair of the 2017 “World of Pure Imagination” Auction, as a parent grade representative, as a member of the leadership council for the Annual Fund, and as chair of the Book Swap. She also coached FLL (First Lego League) teams for two years. Danna’s nonprofit involvement includes serving as board chair and board secretary for Home Step, now part of Compass Housing, and serving on a Children’s Hospital guild. Danna currently serves on the board of trustees for Chi Omega Foundation, is on the national alumnae connections team for Chi Omega and is an advisor to the collegiate chapter at the University of Washington. She holds a bachelor’s degree in human resource management from Utah State University and an MBA from Seattle University.

Zahlen Titcomb ’96 is an SCDS alumnus and possesses degrees from the University of Chicago in economics, Italian literature, and international studies. After a brief stint in finance and healthcare consulting in Beijing, he and his siblings founded Five Ultimate, a sports apparel company serving the Ultimate frisbee community. The siblings later started several other businesses in the Ultimate sphere, including the All-Star Ultimate Tour, the Seattle Cascades, and ARIA Discs. Zahlen serves as CEO of Regenerated Textiles, building distributed technology for clothing recycling. He has served on the board of several foundations and has completed studies at THNK.org, the Amsterdam School for Creative Leadership. 

Yi Jenny Xiao is a social psychologist by training. She received a B.A. in psychology and a B.A. in biology from Bard College in New York in 2010 and completed a Ph.D. in social psychology at New York University in 2016. Since then, Jenny has been a faculty member at several colleges/universities, including Macalester College (Minnesota), Hofstra University (New York), and now the University of Washington, Tacoma. Jenny is broadly interested in how identities shape our perception, attitudes, and behaviors, and has been designing/offering courses in stereotyping prejudice and discrimination, attitudes and persuasion, and Asian American psychology. Jenny’s family has been part of the SCDS community since 2020, when her daughter Amber started as a kindergartener. In the past two years, Jenny has been actively engaged in the school community, volunteering in various roles such as class rep, speaker for the RIPPLES series, and so on. Jenny is passionate about education, particularly educational equity. She has been serving on the executive committee, as well as volunteering as a mentor, for Minds Matter Seattle — an organization preparing accomplished high-school students from low-income families for college success. Jenny lives with her family in Bellevue and is an avid reader in her spare time.

Kimberly A. Zaidberg has been the head of Seattle Country Day School since July 2018. In this time, she has launched a new-teacher training program and an electives program in the Middle School, introduced a band program for grades 4–8, and created an associate and junior associate teacher program in the Lower School.

At present, Ms. Zaidberg is leading a multi-year strategic plan to attract and retain families and faculty of color in the SCDS community and has advanced inquiry-based and DEI-focused learning for the gifted children the school serves.

Ms. Zaidberg has more than 25 years of experience in education. She began her career teaching English and history at her alma mater, on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She then served as the principal of two girls’ middle schools in New York City. Before coming to Seattle, Ms. Zaidberg was the head of an independent school in the Hudson Valley of New York that served children from pre-K through 12^th grade. She received a B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College and a master’s degree in education (curriculum and teaching) from Teachers College, Columbia University.