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The Board of Directors

What Does the Board Do?
Raleigh Charter High School, Inc. is a non-profit corporation run by a Board of Directors made up of business professionals, experienced educators, and college professors.
Who Are They?
Dr. Susan Arrendell has been involved at RCHS since 1999 and is a past member of the PASTA Board. Her sons graduated from RCHS in 2003 and 2007.
Susan holds a Ph.D. from NC State University in plant breeding.
Dana Barrow, current president of PASTA, has been at RCHS since 2005. She served as a PASTA VP of Fundraising from 2006 - 2008. She has a B.S. in Mathematics from Wake Forest University. Her daughter is a member of the RCHS class of 2009.
Mary K. Brown holds an M.A. Honours degree from St. Andrews University in St. Andrews, Scotland. She is an editor, helping academics and professionals — especially those whose first language is not English — improve journal and article submissions, reports, proposals, and similar documents. Mary K. served as editor of the RCHS Phoenix News from 2005-07. She is married and has three children, a son at NCSU, a daughter in the RCHS class of 2007 and now at UNC Asheville, and a son in the class of 2011.
Debra Tabb DeCamillis is a qualitative market research consultant based in Raleigh. She is a Past President of PASTA and the mother of two RCHS graduates. She earned a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a M.Ed. from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Thomas E. Humble is Principal of Raleigh Charter High School. Tom has been a junior-high teacher in Durham County and a high-school English teacher in Wake County. He has a B.A. in History from UNC-Charlotte, a Master of Arts in Teaching in English Education from Duke, a Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill, and both Principal's and Superintendent's licenses from North Carolina State University. Tom has taught in the Duke TIP Summer Residential Program and has been an AP English Language consultant with Duke TIP and the College Board.
Vidya Iyer is a Specialty Banker at Wachovia. She has a B.S. in Business Management from North Carolina State University. Her daughter is a member of the RCHS class of 2009.
Mike Jordanis an award-winning, retired Wake County Schools principal, having been principal of Lead Mine Elementary, Daniels Middle School, and East Wake High School. He was the founding principal of The Magellan Charter School, and he has been the director of Sterling Montessori Charter School. He has a BA in English from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an MA in Education from East Carolina University.
Mary Krawiec teaches Spanish at Raleigh Charter High School.
Hilarie Nickerson, Board Chair, holds the position of associate director with the UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative, which offers professional development initiatives that emphasize appropriate and effective uses of technology to enhance instruction. Hilarie has a BS in Engineering Sciences from Yale University, a MS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a MID in Industrial Design from North Carolina State University. Her daughter is a member of the RCHS class of 2008.
Scott Saylor is President of the North Carolina Railroad Company, which owns the primary freight and passenger railroad line through North Carolina. Scott is also an attorney, and holds a B. S. in Business Administration from UNC-Chapel Hill and a J. D. from North Carolina Central University. Scott and his wife Fran are the parents of two sons, both of whom are students at RCHS.
Martha Tempest is the publisher of Kidsville News! of the Triangle, a local monthly kids' newspaper with a literacy mission. Martha has a BA in Classics from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She has been a La Leche League Leader for 26 years, and is currently Area Coordinator of Leaders for North Carolina. Martha is a parent of four, among them a 2003 RCHS graduate and a current student.
Sam Whitt is the Executive Director of Cherokee Gives Back and the father of two students at Raleigh Charter High School.
Danny Zweigart, past president of the Parent, Administrator, Student, Teacher, Association (PASTA), is a Computer LAN Administrator. In his previous lives, Danny has been a youth director for the YMCA of Raleigh as well as a high school Physics Teacher for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Danny and his wife Sandra have two children, one at RCHS (class of 2009) and one at Brooks Museums Magnet Elementary.