Board of Trustees

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Executive Committee

List of 6 members.

Theresa Theresa Robison

Chair
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Theresa Robison serves as the chair of the board at High Meadows, now in her second year in the role. Her family has been part of the High Meadows community since 2016, and this is her seventh year serving on the Board of Trustees. Her two younger sons, William and Alex, attend High Meadows School and Camp (4th and 8th grades), and her oldest son, Zach, is a High Meadows School and Camp graduate, now in 10th grade.

Professionally, Theresa is head of information security at Lattice, an AI-powered people platform. She earned her BS and MS in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech. Theresa lives in Roswell with her husband, their three boys, and their two dogs, Luna and Mabel. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and trail running, arts and crafts, reading, and learning new things.
Leigh Leigh Borda

Vice Chair
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Leigh Borda joined the Board of Trustees in 2024 and currently serves as the Vice Chair and the Chair of the Governance Committee. Her family joined the High Meadows community in 2018. Her son, Ace, is in 5th grade at High Meadows and is also a High Meadows camper. Before joining the Board, Leigh was active with the High Meadows Fund, serving as the chair and as a grade-chair. She has also been a Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 2/3 room parent.

Leigh is Executive Director, Customer Success & Development at Amplify, where she focuses on strategy, special projects, and operations. Previously, she was Vice President of People at Fullmind, and before that she led the Corps Member Selection Team and the Professional Recruitment Team at Teach For America. She holds a degree from Columbia University.
Tanya Tanya Squire

Treasurer
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Tanya Squire is the treasurer for the board and a member of the Finance Committee as well as the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Committee. Tanya and her family have been part of the High Meadows community since 2020 when her daughter, London '24, started 5th grade. Tanya is a finance and accounting executive currently serving as chief financial officer of Rat Race Management. Her experience spans public accounting, financial management, and business strategy and insights, predominantly in the quick service restaurant industry.

Tanya grew up in New Jersey and graduated from NC Agricultural & Technical State University. Tanya enjoys going to the movies with her family and playing tennis. She and her family currently reside in Sandy Springs.
Carolyne Carolyne Hilton

Secretary
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Carolyne Hilton and her family have been part of the High Meadows School community since 2021, and her daughter Shelton is in fourth grade. She joined the Board of Trustees in May 2025 and currently serves as the Board Secretary. Prior to joining the Board, Carolyne volunteered in a variety of capacities at High Meadows, including room representative, Chair of the 50th Anniversary Projects Committee, and member of the Advancement and Marketing Committee. Carolyne is an attorney by trade. She is currently Senior Counsel at JAS Worldwide Management, Inc. Prior to working at JAS, she was an attorney at The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., and Miller & Martin, PLLC.
John John Monahan

Member at Large
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John Monahan joined the High Meadows board in 2024 and serves as a member-at-large for the Executive Committee. His family has been part of our community since 2020, and John's two boys are in 3rd and 6th grade this year.

John is an educational professional with 20 years of experience. He has served in numerous roles, including classroom teacher, coach, advisor, administrative board member, grade chair, dean, and director of a program on civil dialogue. He is currently the Dean of Academics at Westminster School.

John graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in history and government. He has master's degrees from Columbia University in teaching and Georgia State in policy with a finance concentration.
John lives in East Cobb with his wife, Lily, and their kids. He enjoys listening to audiobooks and podcasts and helping around the yard
Margaret Margaret Lamb

Member at Large
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Margaret is a member-at-large for the Executive Committee of the board. She has been a member of the High Meadows community since 2014, when her son Frank started 1st grade. Frank graduated HMS in 2022, so Margaret serves on the board as a parent of an alumnus. Her career started in the study of evolutionary ecology, but her interest in education led her to a path of instructional design. She worked at higher education institutions from New Zealand to the northeastern United States, designing innovative curricula that specifically used educational technology. Margaret is currently combining her love of nature, the outdoors, and educating at the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell.

Margaret grew up in New Jersey and has a BS in biology from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. She studied zoology at the University of Rhode Island and moved to New Zealand when she was 24. After six years and a life-changing experience, she decided it was time to come home in 2000. Margaret moved to Atlanta in 2010 to be closer to her family and enjoys the beautiful mountains, gardening (when it's not hot!), fishing, progressive dinners on the Beltline, and all her pets.

Board Members

List of 7 members.

Jared Jared Austin
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Jared Austin's family has been part of the High Meadows community since 2019. His two sons, Samuel (5th grade) and Zachary (2nd grade), have attended High Meadows since Pre-K. Prior to joining the board, Jared was actively engaged in both the 50th Anniversary Campaign and the Annual Fund. He was drawn to High Meadows for its approach to learning, its focus on emotional intelligence, and the beauty and teaching opportunities of the campus.

Professionally, Jared is a senior enterprise IT leader with more than 20 years of experience, having held senior leadership positions within Fortune 500 companies managing technology footprints, engineering teams, and both project and operational budgets. His expertise spans cloud transformation, large-scale migrations, modern software delivery, and IT architecture. He currently serves as Head of Client Delivery at Root Velocity Partners and was previously Vice President of Cloud & Engineering Enablement at Global Payments. He holds a BS in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems from the University of Louisville.

Jared and his wife, Amanda, are also multi-unit franchisees for three different beauty brands, operating five locations around the Atlanta area. They live in Roswell with their family.
Susan Susan Cuellar
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Susan Cuellar joined the High Meadows Board of Trustees in 2026. She has been part of the High Meadows community since 2014, when her oldest child began Pre-K. Susan has a 7th grader and a 5th grader at High Meadows as well as a High Meadows graduate who is a sophomore at Roswell High School. Susan has been an active volunteer at High Meadows over the last 12 years, serving in positions including Room Parent, Library volunteer, Staff Appreciation chair, Communications chair, Gala Auction donations lead, Fall Festival chair, band parent volunteer, and President of FAHMS. She is also the VP of Hospitality and Events for the Roswell Theater Company Boosters.

Susan has over a decade of human resources experience in industries including not-for-profit healthcare and financial services. She earned both her Professional Human Resources certification and Certified Health Care Recruiter designation in 2008. Susan also served on the leadership board of the Texas Association of Health Care Recruiters and was a committee member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council. She holds a BA from Texas Lutheran University in history and English.

Susan and her husband, Silver, relocated to Roswell from Texas in 2012. They stay busy with their three children and very large dog, Waffles. Susan is an avid baker and active member of her book club.
Javier Javier Estrella
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Javier Estrella has served the High Meadows Board of Trustees for many years, including five years as Board Chair. His family has been a part of the High Meadows community since 2016. Ariana is in 8th grade, and Isabel is an alumna.

Javier works for SCW.AI as vice president of customer success. Javier was born and raised in Puerto Rico and holds a bachelor's in industrial engineering and a master's in operations research from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He lives with his family in Marietta.
Richard Rich McCraw
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Rich McCraw joined the High Meadows School Board of Trustees in 2025. His family has been part of the High Meadows community since 2020, with one son currently in 6th grade and another who graduated from HMS and now attends Milton High School. Rich brings more than 20 years of experience helping organizations harness emerging and established technologies to build robust, scalable enterprise platforms. He is currently Vice President of Technology at *Improving*, a modern technology services firm committed to transforming the perception of the IT profession.
Throughout his career, Rich has guided clients across diverse industries—including healthcare, financial services, distribution, law enforcement, and consumer services—in adopting cloud technologies, developing secure hybrid environments, and building agile IT capabilities aligned with business needs. Rich holds both a BS and ME in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina and earned his MBA from the University of Georgia. He lives in Milton with his wife, Jessica, and their two sons, Conor, a High Meadows Class of 2025 graduate, and Henry, a fifth grader. A self-described reformed hipster, Rich enjoys playing guitar, listening to live music, and his ridiculous Lego collection.
Mital Mital Patel
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Mital Patel was born and raised in Mississippi. She went to Louisiana State University for her bachelor of science, then moved to Chicago to complete her doctorate in optometry from Illinois College of Optometry. She moved to Atlanta where she finished a residency program in ocular disease. Mital bought her first practice in 2012 and has grown to three different locations. Being an entrepreneur has kept Mital on her feet and always learning and growing from new challenges.

Mital currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees. Her family has been a part of High Meadows since 2018. Her son is in 7th grade, and her daughter is in 4th grade. She enjoys outdoor yoga, riding on her Peloton, traveling, and hiking with their goldendoodle dog named Odi. Her favorite guilty pleasure is chocolate chip cookies and ice cream. Mital and her husband enjoy the High Meadows approach to learning and the loving atmosphere.
Zachary Zack Prescott
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Zachary Prescott joined the High Meadows community in 2020 when his son Charles began attending the school. Before joining the board, Zachary was chair of the High Meadows Fund for the 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 school years. His sons, Charles and Henry, are now in the 7th and 5th grades. His wife, Julia, has previously served in FAHMS leadership, including as Treasurer and Library Liaison.

Zachary is from the Florida Panhandle and currently lives in Roswell with his family. He graduated from the University of West Florida with a bachelor's degree in accounting. In 2004, he received his Certified Financial Planner Certification. He has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry in Atlanta, with the past 18 years at Goldman Sachs Ayco.
Marcia Marcia Spiller
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Marcia Prewitt Spiller is a search consultant with RG175 and has assisted approximately 20 schools in the process of securing administrative leadership. She joined the High Meadows board in May 2025. Marcia is the former Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Life at Woodward Academy in College Park, GA. Prior to being appointed to this position, Spiller was Head of The Children’s School in Atlanta a position she held for more than two decades.

From 2009-2012, Spiller was chair of the board of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). Spiller has also served on the boards of the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS), the Elementary School Heads Association (ESHA) and many other organizations. Currently she is on the board of Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio. Marcia is a current member and past president of the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA). She has served on or chaired more than thirty accreditation teams for AdvancEd (SACS) and/or SAIS.

Marcia was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a graduate of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. and received her graduate degree from Georgia State University. Marcia is a ten-year veteran of the /I/D/E/A/ Fellows summer institute for distinguished educators and is a 1993 graduate of Leadership Atlanta and a 1998 graduate of Leadership Midtown.

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Board of Trustees

Meet the Board

Executive Committee

List of 6 members.

Theresa Theresa Robison

Leigh Leigh Borda

Tanya Tanya Squire

Carolyne Carolyne Hilton

John John Monahan

Margaret Margaret Lamb

Board Members

List of 7 members.

Jared Jared Austin

Susan Susan Cuellar

Javier Javier Estrella

Richard Rich McCraw

Mital Mital Patel

Zachary Zack Prescott

Marcia Marcia Spiller