Board | Citizens Association of Georgetown

CAG Board

The Association’s Board of Directors is charged with setting the strategic goals that will enforce and maintain CAG’s mission and goals. The Board is comprised of 12 volunteer members, each of whom is a member of CAG and resides in Georgetown.

Executive Board

Tara Sakraida Parker

President

Susan Dabbar

Vice-President

Jerry Libin

Treasurer

Amy Kuhnert

Secretary

Board Members

Stephanie Bothwell

Karen Cruse

Betsy Emes

Pamla Moore

Paige Strawn

John Rentzepis

Jennifer Romm

Karin Wheeler

Cheryl Gray

Past President

Richard Hinds

General Counsel

Committee Chairs

Betsy Eames

Trees for Georgetown

Karin Wheeler

Development

Karen Murphy

Membership

Walter Groszyk

Infrastructure

Stephanie Bothwell

Urban Landscape

Elsa Santoyo

Historic Preservation & Zoning

Paige Strawn

Programming & Events

Karen Cruse

Alcohol Beverage Control

Kevin Kozlowski

Rats, Trash, & Recycling

Cathy Farrell

Oral Histories

John Rentzepis

Public Safety

Richard Hinds

Public Safety

Staff

Christine Nguyen

Executive Director

Christine@cagtown.org

Vacant

Business Manager

Catherine Shaw

Public Safety Coordinator

CatherineShaw@cagtown.org

Tara Sakraida Parker is an experienced real estate attorney, professional gift planner and successful nonprofit fundraiser living in Washington, D.C. For nearly a decade, Tara handled sophisticated real estate finance and land use regulatory issues as a transactional attorney. Before moving to DC, Tara served as Director of Gift Planning and Director of Major Gifts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she helped solicit and close one of the largest gifts to the UCLA College of Letters and Science. Tara serves as a philanthropic advisor and Board member for several nonprofit organizations, including Johns Hopkins’ new Adult Primary Immunodeficiency Center of Excellence. She and her husband Rich Parker, an esteemed antitrust litigator at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, live on Q Street.

Susan’s varied experience includes work at Fortune 100 companies, entrepreneurship, and civic advocacy beginning with her first job as a Naval Architect at a Virginia shipyard and later as a Disney executive in California. As a brand manager for companies like Disney and Nestle, Susan has garnered extensive experience in business strategies, communication, client service, and technology platforms. Currently, as the CEO and founder of AdmissionSmarts, an educational consulting company, Susan advocates for college access and affordability. Susan has served on several non-profits and was recently appointed to the National Council on White House History. She and her husband John, a government affairs expert, live on N Street.

Jerry is a long-time Georgetown resident who has been involved in a number of community activities. Jerry recently served as a Trustee and Treasurer of Tudor Place and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of WETA. He is a tax lawyer with the global firm Eversheds Sutherland. Jerry and his wife June live on P Street in the East Village.

Amy has been a Georgetown resident since 2007. She has worked with numerous Georgetown organizations including Friends of Volta Park, Blue Igloo Playgroup, St John’s Episcopal Church and Preschool, Hyde-Addison Elementary and Georgetown Village. She also enthusiastically served on the committee for CAG Concerts in the Park! Happily raising her two daughters in the neighborhood on Q Street with husband Josh, Amy works as an art advisor and fine art appraiser.

As principal of Stephanie Bothwell Urban and Landscape Design LLC, Stephanie is a nationally recognized contributor to the walkable, mixed-use, healthy and sustainable community development movement. Stephanie is a city planner and landscape architect and was recently appointed to the first class of Fellows of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) the national organization rediscovering traditional urbanism for the 21st century. She established the American Institute of Architects’ Center for Livable Communities. She was Senior Landscape Architect for the City of Boston and faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the board chair of CNUDC. Lecturing, teaching and designing gardens and public spaces across the country, she lives with her husband James Warren, a tax attorney, on Reservoir Road.

A CAG board member for over 20 years, Karen is co-chair of the Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Committee, working diligently to create a balance between the residential and commercial sectors. She coordinates with businesses and residents to modify and answer concerns regarding liquor licenses — known as settlement agreements. “Cookie” is a key liaison person with Georgetown University on town-gown matters, serving on the Safety and Student Life Committee of the Georgetown Community Partnership. She also assists with editing the CAG newsletter and is a regular volunteer for Meals on Wheels. She and her husband Jim live on 35th Street.

Betsy moved from southeastern North Carolina to Washington in 1971 to join the World Bank where she worked for almost 30 years. Upon retirement, she obtained her Master Gardener’s Certificate and volunteered at the US Botanic Garden, tending their vast orchid collection. She also became a Citizen Forester at Casey Trees. Betsy has chaired Trees for Georgetown for over 15 years. She has lived in Georgetown since 1976 and currently resides on N Street with her husband, Edward, and their two Jack Russell terriers, Picotee and Happy.

Pam has lived in Georgetown on Dumbarton Street since 1992. She has served as Chairman of the Board of Georgetown Heritage, the non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing the 1-mile stretch of the C & O Canal National Park that flows through Georgetown and is currently a board member. Pam came to Washington in 1989 to direct the Peace Corps’ Office of Private Sector Relations. Leaving the Peace Corps, she was founder and president of The P. H. Prochnow group with offices at 1010 Wisconsin Avenue. While living in Georgetown she took an interest in the rehabilitation of Rose Park and was a founder and president of Friends of Rose Park for ten years. During that time, she joined the Citizens Association of Georgetown, moving on to chairing the Historic Preservation & Zoning committee. She later served as CAG president for two different terms. When a change of pace calls, she heads to Vail, Colorado.

Paige has lived in Washington, DC since attending college and in Georgetown for five years. She currently works at Imagenet, LLC, a healthcare technology company. Paige has experience managing over 70 clients and the operations of nine offices. Paige made it a priority to hire a diverse team of managers and has led recruiting efforts at various levels of the company. Prior to joining Imagenet, Paige gained valuable client relations and marketing experience at several startups, a small business, and a think tank in Washington, DC. Paige graduated from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where she completed the Entrepreneurship Fellows Program and received an award for academic excellence in Management studies. Paige is thrilled to be back in Georgetown as a first-time homeowner on 29th Street.

John has lived in Georgetown since 2000 and has been Co-Chair of the Public Safety Committee since 2014. For many years, he has been involved with Friends of Book Hill Park serving as a volunteer and board member. He works in alternative investments and resides on P Street with his wife Virginia Poole and their two daughters.

Jennifer was raised in the Washington DC area and graduated from Georgetown University. Currently, she is an event planner at the Library of Congress. She is a former president of CAG and currently is a co-chair of the CAG Development Committee and the Alcohol Beverage Control Committee. She is the CAG representative on the Steering Committee of the Georgetown Community Partnership and Board Chair of Georgetown Heritage. A Georgetown resident for over 30 years, she and her husband David Romm live on 30th Street.

Karin is a Georgetown enthusiast who moved to Water Street over four years ago after spending time as a CPA for Deloitte & Touche and starting her own Financial Consulting firm. She is a leader and fundraiser, raising money for CAG, National Charity League (NCL), International Justice Mission, and Susan G Komen’s Orange County affiliate, for which she was Board Treasurer for five years. She has chaired numerous fundraising events including Komen’s Pink Tie Ball and NCL’s Annual Fashion Show (twice). Karin enjoys golf and fitness and is still trying to get used to being an empty nester, as she and her husband Scott (CFO of CoStar Group) raised their three children and sent them off into the wide, wide world

Cheryl has lived in Georgetown for 11 years and in the DC area for 36 years. She served as past president of CAG and has been active in CAG’s historic preservation and community programming activities. Cheryl studied economics at Stanford and law and public policy at Harvard, and she recently retired from a career in international development at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. She is married and has 3 grown children (and a new puppy).

Richard serves as CAG’s legal counsel and also co-chairs the Public Safety Committee. Richard is Senior Counsel in Cleary Gottlieb’s Washington, D.C. office, where he focuses on litigation. His litigation practice encompasses international trade matters, product liability, environmental and land use regulatory issues. Richard joined Cleary Gottlieb in 1973 and became a partner in 1977. Prior to joining the firm, he served as special assistant to the Assistant Sectary of Trade Affairs in the U. S. Treasury Department and clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Columbia Law School, LLB, cum laude; Editor, Columbia Law Review; Tufts University, B.A., magnum cum laude.