Board Of Directors / Governance
JOIN THE LFNO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The LFNO Board of Directors is currently accepting applications for new board members. If you are interested in shaping the future of Lycée, we encourage you to check out the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools’ website. You will find FAQs, highlights of the past year, videos and even a 10-point “I’m Ready” checklist to help guide your decision to apply for a position on the board. Interested candidates need to fill out The TOP Shelf application. Please specify your interest in participating on the Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans Board of Directors in the application section entitled “Your Motivation” or in the section beginning “Please share anything else…” Thank you in advance for your time and commitment to Lycée.
For public records request, please contact Marina Schoen, CEO & Custodian of Public Records. Email: mschoen@lfno.org . Phone: 504.620.5500.
Articles of Incorporation | Original Charter | Charter Renewal
Conflict of Interest Policy
Matthew Moreland, Chair mmoreland@lfno.org – phone: 504-832-3000
Caroline Borderlon, Vice-Chair cborderlon@lfno.org
Lauren Knight, Secretary lknight@lfno.org
Brett Long, Treasurer, blong@lfno.org
Ann Meese, Board Member ameese@lfno.org
Adrienne Warren, Board Member awarren@lfno.org
Erik Jungbacker, Board Member ejungbacker@lfno.org
Dr. J.C. Wagner Romero, Board Member jwagnerromero@lfno.org
Shearon Roberts, Board Member, sroberts@lfno.org
Damon Carraby, Board Member dcarraby@lfno.org
Graham Bosworth, Board Member, gbosworth@lfno.org
David Amoss, Board Member damoss@lfno.org
Anitra Walker, Board Member awalker@lfno.org
Caroline Bordelon
Vice Chair
Caroline Bordelon is an attorney with the New Orleans office of Deutsch Kerrigan, LLP, where she is a member of both its civil litigation and construction departments. Prior to joining Deutsch Kerrigan, Ms. Bordelon primarily worked defending insurance companies litigating complex insurance coverage cases. Ms. Bordelon received her Juris Doctorate from Tulane University, where she was named to the Order of the Barristers. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Bordelon was a middle school mathematics teacher on the island of O’ahu in Hawai’i. During her time as a mathematics teacher, she also served as head of the mathematics department at ‘Aiea Intermediate School. Ms. Bordelon is a native New Orleanian and attended New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts before graduating from the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts.
Lauren Knight
Secretary
Lauren Knight is Chief Operating Officer of School Food Solutions and owner of Pelican Playgrounds. She is passionate about providing opportunities for students and their families to live active, healthy, choice-filled lives. She was previously a school operations manager and secondary special education teacher who taught at KIPP New Orleans. Lauren is an experienced leader in school operations who has dedicated her career to supporting charter schools.
Brett Long
Treasurer
Brett Long is a New Orleans native and Certified Public Accountant with experience across the private, public, and non-profit sectors. As an auditor with the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, he helped to conduct audits and data-driven analyses in healthcare, education, criminal justice, and public finance. In the business world, he has helped to found or consulted with several startups in food, healthcare, education, and energy. A graduate of Tulane and Harvard, he currently directs sales and operations for a local energy startup while also practicing as a CPA and consultant. He is honored by the opportunity to serve the students and community of Lycee Francais.
Dr. J.C. Wagner Romero
Dr. J.C. Wagner Romero is a native New Orleanian whose family immigrated to Louisiana from Nicaragua. He currently serves as Chief of Staff at Einstein Schools, a network of four public schools in New Orleans East, as well Adjunct Professor of Education at Delgado Community College. As a multicultural education scholar, Dr. Romero’s research focuses on immigrant, Latinx youth experiences in schooling and their communities. Dr. Romero remains actively engaged in New Orleans by serving on the Board of Directors for Living School and the Center for Racial Justice at Dillard University. Dr. Romero earned his doctorate in education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He also earned his master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Northeastern University and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Northwestern State University.
Adrienne Warren
Board member
Adrienne Warren is the Director of Health Grants at Baptist Community Ministries, and brings over 10 years of administrative, fiscal and programming expertise in the health services arena. She has served in varying roles, providing strategic direction and oversight to public health programs located in Louisiana as well as Africa, the Caribbean and South America.
Adrienne and her husband, Lionel, are proud parents of two Lycee students. She is honored to serve on the Board and is excited to contribute toward LFNO’s ongoing growth and success.
Shearon Roberts
Board member
Shearon Roberts, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Mass Communication and a faculty member in African American and Diaspora Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University, a Masters in Mass Communication from LSU and a B.A. from Dillard University. She currently serves as the director of Xavier’s honors program. She is a past president of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication and serves on the board of the Louisiana Communication Association. She is a co-author/author of three books and a former award-winning journalist.
Graham Bosworth
Board member
Graham is an attorney and the founder and Principle of Bosworth Legal, LLC. He was raised in
New Orleans and is a graduate of the Orleans Parish Public School System. Since returning to New Orleans after law school, Graham spent five years in the District Attorney’s Office. In 2010, he formed his own private practice handling criminal defense and civil litigation. In 2016, Graham was appointed judge, pro tempore, of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, Section “D.”
Graham also serves on a number of boards and committees, including serving as the Chair of the Louisiana Bar Association Criminal Justice Committee and President of the Board of the Southeastern Louisiana Adult Soccer Association, as well as serving as a member of the Broad Community Connections Board of Directors and the Lift, Louisiana Advisory Board. Graham is also the former Chair and President of the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization Board of Directors.
Graham and his wife, Amy, are raising two children in New Orleans. His eldest daughter attends Lycée Français. He is committed to the continued improvement of public education in New Orleans, and the growth and success of Lycée specifically, and is honored to be serving on the Lycée board.
Ann Meese
Board member
Ann Meese is a retired educator who moved to New Orleans in July 2005 from Columbia, Missouri. She received her PhD in General School Administration from the University of Missouri in 1996 with a secondary emphasis in African American Studies. Her undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Cincinnati were in American History. After teaching social studies in the West Lafayette and Columbia Public Schools, she served as curriculum director and then elementary principal for the Roselle V School District in suburban Chicago, Superintendent of the Bosworth R-V School District in rural northwestern Missouri and ended her career in the inner city as elementary principal of Jefferson School for the St. Louis Public School district. In New Orleans she served three years on the Lycee School Board beginning in its second year. She currently is a long time member of Rayne United Methodist Church’s Early Childhood Program Advisory Board and also a member of both the finance committee and the mission committee. She is dedicated to the expansion of the Zero to Three Early Childhood System under the Louisiana Department of Education.
Damon Carraby
Board member
Damon P. Carraby is the Senior Manager of Foundations and Major Gifts at St. Augustine High School. Damon has a B.A. in Urban Studies with a focus in Public Policy from Dillard University. He is excited to serve on the board for Lycee Francias because he sees how important it is to connect individuals and community partners to create meaningful opportunities for the students, staff, and parents of Lycee.
Anitra Walker
Board Member
Anitra Walker currently serves as a high school administrator, student/teacher mentor, professional development facilitator, and author. Ms. Walker has a passion for education and enjoys working with students, teachers, and parents. She received her B.A. in English and her Ed.S. in gifted education from Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge. In addition, she received her M.Ed in secondary education from Southern University, and she is currently working on her Ed.D in educational leadership at Nova Southeastern University. She is extremely excited about her new roles with Lycée Français, and she is committed to doing her best to serve its parents, students, and teachers.
Erik Jungbacker
Board member
Erik is a commercial real estate developer and the general counsel of a commercial real estate company. He holds a Bachelors from the University of Wisconsin, a Masters in Finance from Tulane’s Freeman School of Business, and a J.D. from Tulane Law. He has also served as a New Orleans public school teacher and public school volunteer soccer coach for over ten years. Erik is passionate about French-immersion education and ensuring that all kids in New Orleans have access to globally-competitive, eye-opening, and awesome schools.
David Amoss
Board Member
David Amoss, CFA is an Equity Research Analyst covering the Midstream and Upstream energy sectors with Heikkinen Energy Advisors. Prior to joining Heikkinen, Mr. Amoss covered the Upstream energy sector at Howard Weil and Iberia Capital Partners. He previously worked as an economic consultant for AECOM in both Chicago and Sydney Australia, specializing in front-end traffic and revenue forecasting for transportation and energy projects. Mr. Amoss is a CFA Charterholder and currently serves on the Board of CFA Society of Louisiana where he has held the positions of President and Treasurer previously. He has been a member of the Finance Committee at LFNO since 2014 and was Chair of the Marketing Committee for the Board of Crimestoppers New Orleans. David lives in Lakeview with his wife Missy and their three children.
RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS & AGENDAS
BOARD MEETING MINUTES
October 2020 | September 2020 | August 2020| July 27, 2020 | July 20, 2020| May 2020 | April 2020 | February 2020 | January 2020 | December 2019| 11.18 November 2019 | 11.4 November 2019 | October 2019 | September 2019 | August 2019 | June 2019 | March 2019| February 2019 | January 2019|December 2018 |October 2018 |September 2018 | August 2018 | July 2018 | May 2018 |March 2018 | March 2018 |January 2018 |November 2017 | September 2017 | August 2017 |February 2017 | December 2016 | October 2016 | September 2016 | August 2016 | June 2016 | May 2016 | April 2016 | February 2016 | January 2016 | November 2015 | October 2015 | September 2015 | September 2015 Retreat | July 2015 | June 2015 | May 2015 1 | May 2015 2 | April 2015 1 | April 2015 2 | March 2015 | February 2015 | January 2015 | December 2014 | November 2014 | October 2014 | September 2014 | August 2014 1 | August 2014 2 | July 2014 | May 2013-April 2014
Facilities Committee:
to provide optimal learning environment that is efficiently managed both operationally and financially in the short and long term.
Governance Committee:
to oversee governance structures and practices of Lycée and report findings and make recommendations to the Board of Directors.
Ann Meese
Brett Long
Academics Committee:
to provide a holistic academic environment that combines French language immersion with a rigorous curriculum which prepares students to live choice-filled lives.
Dr. Ann Meese, Chair
Lauren Knight, Co-Chair
Karin Barbee
Heather Knight
Dr. Kelley Morel
Theresa Outlaw
Anitra Walker
Dr. Jancarlos Wagner-Romero
Ex-Officio: Sophie Capmartin
Ex-Officio: Marina Schoen
Ex-Officio: Danielle Dufauchard
Ex-Officio: Chana Benenson
Finance Committee: To provide an optimal learning environment that is efficiently managed both operationally and financially in the short and long term.
Brett Long
Erik Jungbacker
David Amoss
Catherine MacPhaille
Jeffray Teague
Bernard Guste
Ex-Officio: Marina Schoen
Ex-Officio: Keeanya Chenier
Athletics Committee:
To grow the school program into competitive and attractive LHAA program with complementary Middle and High School teams
Graham Bosworth
Brett Long
Holly Kymes
Kier McGuire
Krystal Oliveira
Brett Patron
Lilly Schmidt
Erik Jungbacker
Ex-Officio: Mary-Devon Dupuy
Ex-Officio: Chana Benenson
Community & Culture Committee:
to integrate our French learning and community with our evolving youth culture encompassing a comprehensive policy with regards to inclusion, race, sexuality, religion and socio-economic background
Davis Robinson-Morris
Shearon Roberts
Adrienne Warren
Matthew Moreland
Ayodele Theard-Lewis
Ex-Officio: Marina Schoen
Ex-Officio: Jethro Celestin
Ex-Officio: Chana Benenson
Ex-Officio: Danielle Dufauchard
FACILITIES COMMITTEE MINUTES
September 18, 2020 | August 20, 2020 | June 6, 2020 | August 2, 2019 | May 14, 2018 | March 8, 2017 | February 2, 2017 | January 11, 2017 | January 3, 2017 | December 16, 2016 | December 8, 2016 | November 14, 2016 | September 7, 2016 | July 19, 2017 & June 20, 2016 | June 29, 2016 | June 20, 2016 | April 19, 2016 & April 12, 2016 | November 15, 2015
FINANCE COMMITTEE MINUTES
LFNO BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETINGS
12.21.20 - Board Meeting Documents
11.16.20 - Board Meeting Documents
10.19.20 - Board Meeting Documents
10.8.20 - Board Meeting Documents
9.28.20 - Board Meeting Documents
9.8.20 - Board Meeting Documents
8.24.20 - Board Meeting Documents
FACILITIES COMMITTEE MEETINGS
12.18.20 - Facilities Meeting Documents
11.3.20 - Facilities Meeting Documents
9.18.20 - Facilities Meeting Documents
8.20.20 - Facilities Meeting Documents
FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING DOCUMENTS
12.15.20 - Finance Meeting Documents
10.26.20 - Finance Meeting Documents
9.1.20 - Finance Meeting Documents
ACADEMIC COMMITTEE MEETINGS
12.11.20 - Academic Meeting Documents
11.4.20 - Academic Meeting Documents
9.1.20 - Academic Meeting Documents
GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETINGS
12.16.20 - Governance Meeting Documents
11.13.20 - Governance Meeting Documents
Updated Jan. 13, 2021