Kenyon’s Board of Trustees is pleased to welcome four new members who bring with them a multitude of skills and experience as well as a strong commitment to the mission and values of the College.
Three new at-large trustees will have six-year terms: Marian Block ’75, Emily Kunze ’96 and Jeffrey Romph ’97. A new alumni trustee — James Greenwood ’02 — will join the group as well for a four-year term.
The board’s Governance and Nominating Committee recommended the candidates, who were approved by the full board at its April meeting and who include Kenyon graduates from across the years. They joined the board beginning July 1.
Returning to the board in a new capacity is D. Matthew Voorhees ’95, who was unanimously elected as chair by the group in April to succeed Aileen Hefferren ’88 H’12 when her term ended on June 30.
New At-large Trustees
Marian Block ’75
Block is a retired vice president and associate general counsel for Lockheed Martin. Prior to that, she worked in private practice and for the U.S. government.
She received a bachelor’s degree in history from Kenyon, and now is a tri-chair of Kenyon’s first Women’s Conference, which will take place in October.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Block has a master’s degree in European history from Brown University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. She serves on the board of directors of Hero Dogs, a Maryland nonprofit that places service dogs with U.S. military veterans and first-responders with disabilities.
Block also has taught U.S. corporate and benefits law abroad in Lithuania and Poland, and serves on the board of directors of the Bethesda Urban Partnership. She is a past president of the Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association.
Emily Kunze ’96
Kunze is the founder of Fundació Diverse, a nonprofit dedicated to early-intervention literacy programs for children in underserved communities in Barcelona, Spain. Previously, she worked in banking in New York and London and managed Finaves, a Barcelona-based start-up investment fund.
She received a bachelor’s degree in international studies from Kenyon and is serving as a tri-chair of Kenyon’s first Women’s Conference, which will take place in October.
Kunze has a Master of Business Administration from the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Spain. She is a trustee of Riverview School in Massachusetts and a partner of the Via Art Foundation. Over the years, she also has served as board chair of the Benjamin Franklin International School in Barcelona and as an advisor to the nongovernmental organization Oxfam in Spain and the United Kingdom.
Jeffrey Romph ’97
Romph is co-owner and managing partner of Romph Pou Agency, a marketing agency headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, with offices in Louisiana and Texas. The agency serves clients across the country, with a focus on data-driven marketing, media strategy, creative services and casino-industry growth.
He is the creator of SCORPIO Data Services, a proprietary marketing database and analytics platform used by some of the country’s largest casinos. His work bridges data strategy and creative execution to help casinos turn customer insight into revenue growth.
Romph received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Kenyon, where he served as president of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and was publisher and writer for The Kenyon Observer, an editorial journal on campus. He was named to Kenyon’s Fifty Under 50 cohort as part of the Our Path Forward campaign and has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Memphis.
New Alumni Trustee
James Greenwood ’02
Greenwood is the dean of equity and social justice at Northfield Mount Hermon School, a boarding school in Massachusetts where he previously served as the director of multicultural affairs. He has experience at other schools as well, including Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio.
Greenwood graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in American studies with a concentration in African and African American studies at Kenyon. He was an admissions fellow, Community Advisor, Snowden House manager, and part of the fraternity Brothers United and the Black Student Union. He is a class agent who received the Distinguished Service Award in 2021 from Alumni Council, which he served as president and vice president.
Greenwood has a Master of Arts in teaching from Brown University and a Master of Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College. His doctorate in educational leadership and administration is from Boston College. A board member for the Independent School Association of the Central States, he has written and presented extensively on topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Greenwood is a frequent presenter and collaborator with The Association of Boarding Schools and the Association of Independent Schools in New England.