Board of Trustees Welcomes New Members
Members of the Durham Academy's Board of Trustees serve as stewards of the school who hold in trust its mission and reputation. The Board of Trustees represents a wide range of professions and broad representation across gender, race, age and geography. Trustees bring with them a variety of perspectives — as current and former Durham Academy parents, alumni and members of the broader Triangle community.
The board will welcome four new members — as well as an existing member who will serve in a new capacity — in the 2024–2025 school year. Read on to learn more about these new members, and visit url.da.org/board to check out bios for all active board members.
Dr. Ronnie Chatterji
Chatterji is a professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Sanford School of Public Policy. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-author of the 2018 book Can Business Save the Earth? Innovating our Way to Sustainability.
Chatterji has served in senior economic policy positions in the Biden and Obama administrations. He recently served as the White House CHIPS coordinator, overseeing the implementation of the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act, one of the largest industrial policy initiatives in a generation. He also served as acting deputy director of the White House National Economic Council.
Chatterji has additionally served as the senior economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisors, a visiting associate professor at Harvard Business School and a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs.
Chatterji has served on the Durham Academy Finance Committee for two years. Chatterji and his wife, Neely, live in Durham. They are the parents of Lower and Middle School students.
Andy Crawford ’97
Crawford, a resident of New York City, will serve as the board’s first-ever remote member, although he plans to attend the board’s retreat and several other meetings in person each year. He has worked with private equity firm General Atlantic for more than 10 years.
Crawford and his wife, Mimi, have three sons who attend the Collegiate School in New York City. His brother, Matt Crawford ’99, is a DA parent, and their mother, the late Beth Crawford, served as Lower School administrative assistant for nearly 20 years.
Andy Crawford was honored with DA’s Distinguished Alumni Award this spring.
Meredith White Howell ’97
The trusteeship committee appointed Howell for a regular term of service on the Board of Trustees, following two years of ex officio service as president of the DA Alumni Board. She is a residential realtor with Peak, Swirles & Cavallito Properties, and she also serves on the board of directors at Westminster Preschool and Hope Valley Country Club. Howell has been an active volunteer with DA Family Association, having co-chaired the 2022–2023 Dine with DA program.
Howell and her husband, Jason, live in Durham and have three children enrolled in DA Preschool and Middle School.
Dr. Jill Moore
In her role as 2024–2025 president of Durham Academy Family Association, Moore is serving on the Board of Trustees in an ex officio capacity.
Having served as a gastroenterologist for more than two decades, Moore is now an assistant professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, with a joint appointment at Durham’s Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She and her husband, Dr. Oren Gottfried, are the parents of a DA alumna, a Middle Schooler and an Upper Schooler.
David Peters ’13
In his role as president of the Durham Academy Alumni Board, Peters is serving on the Board of Trustees in an ex officio capacity.
Peters — who lives in Raleigh with his girlfriend, Emily Sharpe — now works as a Senior Portfolio Analyst with the Bank of California. He has previous professional experience at MapleMark Bank and Northwestern Mutual and served as a senior counselor and golf chief at YMCA Camp Sea Gull and YMCA Camp Seafarer. Peters served as 2023–2024 DA Alumni Board vice president.