Board Members
Sheryl Shafer (President): Sheryl Shafer’s professional background has centered on marketing communications-from writing and editing to leadership experience as vice president of marketing communications of a tech company to managing a consulting practice for the past 11 years. This business experience has well served her current focus as an educational advocate. She has been an active volunteer for Peak to Peak since1998, serving as co-chair of the Hiring, Community Relations, Character Development and Grant Writing committees. She previously served on the parent board of her children’s pre-school and former elementary school. Ms. Shafer has a 9th grade daughter and a 6th grade son who attend Peak to Peak. (303) 665-9631
Don Ferguson (Vice President): Don Ferguson is an I/T Consultant with 20 years' experience in technology services and project management. He recently left his position at IBM as a Certified Executive Project Manager to start a consulting practice, applying his business experience and his passion for the productive use of technology to help small companies realize the promise of their investment in technology. Mr. Ferguson has 7 years' experience as a Board member, strategic planner and I/T Committee chair of a local non-profit school and strategic planner and I/T consultant for a local non-profit arts organization. He has a BA in Mathematics from Colorado College and an MS in theoretical Computer Science from the University of Colorado. Mr. Ferguson lives with his two children in Broomfield. His high school daughter attends Peak to Peak; his son hopes to attend in the future. (303) 679-7345
Tim Jones (Treasurer): Timothy Jones is the President of The Louis and Harold Price Foundation, a private family foundation with offices in New Jersey and Colorado. His responsibilities include oversight of all facets of the foundation including grantmaking activities, investments and administrative and financial operations. Prior to joining the Price Foundation in 1999, Mr. Jones was Senior Vice President for Finance & Administration and Treasurer of the University of Colorado Foundation where he worked for ten years. He began his career with the CPA firm of Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Jones has been actively involved as a volunteer on a variety of nonprofit boards in Boulder County since moving to the area in 1989. A Colorado-licensed Certified Public Accountant, he earned joint undergraduate degrees in Accounting & Business Administration from the University of Kansas. Married to Mrs. Dana Jones, an active volunteer at the school, they have three daughters who attend Peak to Peak – two in high school and one in elementary school. (303) 665-2071
Carolyn Jannsen (Secretary): Carolyn Jannsen’s professional background is in health care ~ specifically patient education and health care management. Before moving to Colorado from Wisconsin in June of 2000 she managed a successful private practice in Counseling and Behavioral Therapy ~ for adults and adolescents. Ms. Jannsen has been an active volunteer at Peak to Peak for the last three years ~ in the classroom, contributing to curriculum development, assisting at fundraising events and Chairing the Secondary Character Development Team. She and her husband Tom have 3 children at Peak to Peak-one in high school and two in elementary school. (303) 439-0985
Tim Carrig: Tim Carrig moved to Lafayette in 1995 after working for several years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Previously, he served briefly as an instructor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University. He is currently Director of Research & Development at Coherent Technologies, Inc. in Louisville where he leads a team developing next-generation laser radar systems. Dr. Carrig holds undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics, has a Cornell doctorate in applied physics, and is a registered patent agent. He enjoys international recognition as an expert in the fields of solid-state lasers and laser remote sensing. He has one son in high school at Peak to Peak. (303) 604-1349
Kitty deKieffer: Kitty L. deKieffer's degree and professional life was in the field of accounting. For the last fifteen years, she has volunteered in the non profit community chairing over thirty events and raising over four million dollars for Boulder County. She has sat on many boards and was the past chair of the Boulder Philharmonic, the Humane Society of Boulder County, Douglass Elementary, and the YWCA of Boulder County. Ms. DeKieffer is the Development and Public Information Director for the Mental Health Center of Boulder County, Inc and is the Executive Director for the Boulder County Mental Health Foundation. She sits on two boards. She is a past winner of the 9 Who Cares Channel 9 award and the Daily Camera Pacesetter award. At Peak to Peak, she sits on the Friends of Peak to Peak board and chairs the upcoming capital campaign. Her son is in 10th grade at Peak to Peak. (303) 673-0192
Ashley Johnson: Ashley Johnson is a certified secondary teacher with a bachelor's degree in history and government from the University of Texas at Austin. Her background includes teaching high school history and geography, working as a litigation legal assistant, and serving as the administrative legal assistant to a committee of the Supreme Court of Texas. After moving to Colorado, she was active in her neighborhood elementary school, serving on the School Improvement Team and as a reading program leader. Ms. Johnson has been an active Peak to Peak volunteer since 1999. She has served as co-chair of Peak to Peak's Hiring committee, has worked on the Assessment and Grounds & Maintenance committees, and as a classroom and health room volunteer. She has two boys, one in the elementary school and one in middle school at Peak to Peak. (303) 465-5099
Anthony Fontana (K-12 Executive Principal)(Ex-Officio): Mr. Fontana has taught English for 13 years. He earned a B.A. in English from Colorado State University and a master's degree in organizational management from the University of Phoenix. Mr. Fontana has coached a wide variety of sports, including volleyball. This past year he was recognized by The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News as 5A Volleyball Coach of the Year.
Donna Newberg-Long (Principal, Elementary Program)(Ex-Officio): Donna Newberg-Long brings a wealth of teaching and administrative experience to the Board. Before joining Peak to Peak, she founded a pre-school through eighth grade school in Hawaii, which included managing the school’s facility construction and developing a full program for 165 students. She is a certified teacher in Colorado, Hawaii and Washington and has taught all academic subjects including math, science, history, English, geography and art. Ms. Newberg-Long brings her energy, experience and insights from 24 years of teaching and school administration to the Peak to Peak community. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in education from Washington State University and a master’s degree in education from Antioch New England Graduate School. She is also the mother of four grown children.
Stephanie Rowe (Director of Operations)(Ex-Officio): Stephanie Rowe has more than 14 years’ experience in the field of finance working as an investment analyst, instructor and as a bookkeeper/treasurer for a non-profit corporation. She received a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, and a master of business administration-finance degree from Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Canada. She is a chartered financial analyst. Ms. Rowe’s two elementary age children attend Peak to Peak.