Board of Trustees

Jon Gordon, President

Jon Gordon joined the WDS Board in December 2021. He lives in Woodstock with his wife and their children who attend WDS. Jon is Managing General Partner at HC9 Ventures, a venture fund that provides deep healthcare expertise to emerging healthcare companies. Jon previously served as Senior Vice President for Innovation at Commonwealth Care Alliance, a non-profit health plan focused on caring for vulnerable populations. Prior to CCA, Jon spent a decade at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, first in their Office of Strategy and then as founder and head of their corporate venture investment program. Jon has held other positions in finance, non-profit fundraising and healthcare. Jon is an adjunct faculty member for the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and serves as a board member of Costs of Care. He is a competitive cyclist and an avid hiker; he is also a guide for the Catskill 3500 Club. Jon holds a BA cum laude from Princeton University and an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School.

Michelle Hughes, Vice President

Michelle Hughes has been a teacher and teacher leader in a variety of educational settings for more than thirty years. A graduate of Bank Street College of Education in Elementary and Museum Education, she began her career in museums, but soon fell in love with the classroom. Michelle joined the public school teaching corps, where progressive-constructivist practices formed the foundation of her teaching. For twelve years she co-taught in a collaborative inclusive learning environment.

In her twelfth year of teaching she was recruited to found a middle school program at the progressive independent school, High Meadow School in Stone Ridge, where she eventually became Head of School for ten years. In her sixteenth year at High Meadow, she was ready for a new challenge. Michelle had become interested in the different ways boys and girls learn, and took the opportunity to join The Albany Academies where she served as director of early childhood, lower and middle schools for five years. 

Michelle launched Learning Arts Coaching and Consulting, LLC (LARC), an education coaching and professional development consultancy, in 2022. She tutors and coaches learners from ages six to 60 and provides professional development to schools. She is an adjunct professor of visual art at SUNY New Paltz and an instructor for Mid-Hudson Teachers Centers and Rehabilitation Through the Arts. She lives with her husband in Rosendale, and they have two daughters in their twenties and a young grandson who is the best thing ever.

Tia Cameron, Secretary

Tia joined the WDS Board of Trustees in 2024 and is a parent of a WDS student. A native of southern Oregon, Tia’s youthful curiosity propelled her to NYC where she eventually stumbled into office management and accounting, all while navigating the intensely rewarding and challenging experiences of a major cultural adaptation. Immersed in start-up environments, she was an early employee at a tech business incubator (Tipping Point Partners), as well as a financial risk analytics firm (RapidRatings International). Prior to that Tia worked in childcare, schlepping kids all over Brooklyn and wondering how she herself could ever raise a child in her 950 square foot yardless apartment. An inexperienced, enthusiastic and ‘creative’ gardener, Tia now happily lives in Woodstock with her husband, their son and their two country cats.

Bill Bullitt, Treasurer

Bill Bullitt retired in 2016 after practicing law in Philadelphia for 45 years with Drinker Biddle & Reath. LLP.  For most of those years, his practice centered around representation of individuals, families, and nonprofit entities.  He has served on the boards of numerous charitable corporations and foundations, as well as advising operating charities on fiduciary and tax matters.  As a director or trustee, he often found himself on the Finance and Development committees of those entities, and he brings that experience to his service to Woodstock Day School as Treasurer.  Bill still lives outside Philadelphia, but was drawn to the WDS board by his family connection to the school.

Ava Mateo ’16, Trustee

Ava Mateo joined the Board in June 2022. Ava is the Executive Director of 18by Vote, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that inspires and empowers our nation’s youngest eligible voters. At 18by Vote, Ava leads an entirely youth-led team in the development and execution of hyper localized youth voter outreach programming. This programming supports paid youth participants in becoming catalysts for civic action within their own communities. 

Having joined the WDS community as a 7th grader, Ava graduated from Woodstock Day School in 2016. She went on to attend Sarah Lawrence College, exploring the philosophy and practice of progressive education, education policy, and the social sciences. Ava holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology and Education with a concentration in Education Policy from Columbia University, Teachers College. Her expertise includes the influence of peer-to-peer educational programs on youth sociopolitical development, culturally responsive & sustaining education, and civic/democratic education. Ava believes deeply in the power of youth and finds it her mission to spread opportunity for meaningful civic engagement among teens and young adults.

Eve Fox, Trustee

Eve is the Digital Director for Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit campaign that aims to end plastic pollution that is based at Bennington College in Vermont. She served as a Vice President of M+R Strategic Services’ digital team – of which she was a founding member – for 12 years. She lives in Woodstock, NY with her husband, their two sons, two cats, and a big garden.

Eve Fox attended the Woodstock Children Center from Kindergarten through Second Grade in the early 1980s — three fantastic, formative years of her early education for which she is forever grateful. The mom of two boys who’ve been at WDS since nursery school, she joined the WDS board in 2018 as Secretary and became President in June 2022. Prior to that she had served as a volunteer member of the Annual Fund committee and a class parent for several years – both roles that she continues to play. 

Wendy Erikson, Trustee

Wendy joined the WDS Board of Trustees in 2024 and is the parent of three WDS Alumni Students. Originally from Michigan, Wendy followed her nomadic parents around the country growing up calling Michigan, New York, Florida, Louisiana and California home. Music has always been an integral part of Wendy’s life. As a child, moving from place to place, she always gravitated toward those who shared her love of music. In her late teens, Wendy moved to Los Angeles, CA. After years of living there, eating up the local music scene, photographing up-and-coming bands and actors, and working for several record labels, Wendy was thrilled to land in Woodstock, NY, the famous little town synonymous with Music and Art, where she has been privileged to raise her family. 

Giving back to the community she loves is important to Wendy.  While she was a parent at WDS, Wendy volunteered for countless school events, as well as serving as class parent and Head of the Parent Association and chairing the Annual School Auction.  Wendy has also been involved in coordinating and helping produce many events for local organizations and charities.  She currently works as an independent contractor and is a Real Estate Agent. As an alumni parent, WDS is near and dear to her heart and she feels that serving on the WDS Board of Trustees is the perfect way to continue her role in this wonderful community.