Goucher Welcomes Six New Members to the Board of Trustees

Reese Finnigan ’25 is the newest recent graduate trustee of Goucher College, from which she graduated summa cum laude with honors in history and a minor in visual and material cultures. She is currently attending UMBC, working toward a master’s degree in history with a focus on the Soviet Union. She has held roles in research, historic preservation, and gallery management and worked with several nonprofits, demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence and community engagement.

Gretchen Gilliland ’03 graduated from Goucher College with a B.A. in psychology and a minor in art and earned her M.A. in higher education philanthropy from Regis College. She currently serves as the president of the Alumnae & Alumni of Goucher College and was a recipient of the Jenifer Mitchell Reed ’86 Young Alumnae/i Award. Gilliland has worked with several universities and nonprofits in fundraising and development, utilizing skills she learned as a student while working in Goucher Phonathon at the Alumnae/i House and as an active member of the SGA exec team. She currently leads the major gifts team for the Colorado School of Mines Foundation and volunteers regularly in the Denver community around human services causes.

Thomas Queenan is a graduate of Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. He also has a master’s degree in architecture and city planning from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Queenan is the chief executive officer & president of Mission First Housing Group, a nonprofit affordable housing company that provides safe homes to nearly 6,700 people in over 4,800 apartments. Mission First develops, constructs, and manages properties that coordinate non-clinical supportive services, literacy, nutritional, and other living resources to their many residents. Before joining Mission First, Queenan served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, which built on his more than 30 years of diverse finance and business operations experience, including as CFO of the Milton Hershey School and Trust, VP of finance and administration at Dickinson College, AVP of treasury operations at Temple University Health System, and city treasurer for Philadelphia.

Ellen Rosenblum Rubesin ’78 serves as an alumna trustee who graduated from Goucher with a B.A. in English before going on to earn her master’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her work with the American Heart Association and American Cancer Society, Rubesin’s 40-year career in fundraising included executive positions at Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the Media-Providence Friends School, and, most recently, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), where she was the executive director of the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter until her retirement in 2019. Since retiring, Rubesin has continued to volunteer for both JDRF and LLS.

Jeremy Singer earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Singer currently serves as president of the College Board and oversees Advanced Placement, SAT, all related instructional and assessment programs, BigFuture, finance, technology, operations, international, risk management, legal, and global strategy and talent. In 2024, Singer took a temporary leave of absence to serve as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) executive advisor in the Office of Federal Student Aid to lead the successful launch of the 2025-26 FAFSA and put the work on a stable and positive long-term trajectory. Singer has extensive leadership experience in both not-for-profit and for-profit education organizations, having served as president of Kaplan Test Prep’s graduate, pre-college, and K–12 divisions; president of digital products for McGraw-Hill Higher Education; CFO and COO of the Grow Network; and executive director of Partners in School Innovation.

Dr. Sofia Teferi ’93 earned her bachelor’s degree from Goucher and her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine. Teferi started her career as a community pediatrician in an underserved health center. She was the only pediatrician in the entire county serving a very vulnerable population. In 2007, she started working as a pediatric hospitalist in a community hospital in Richmond. In 2014, she became chief of pediatrics, broadening her supervision over the pediatric emergency room, NICU, nursery, pediatric floor, and pediatric ICU. Working in a community hospital, she had the opportunity to participate in many aspects of hospital administration, such as EMR, safety and quality, recruitment and strategic planning, physician development, and medical student and resident education. Teferi has also had the privilege of being involved with some of the most vulnerable pediatric populations as medical director of the pediatric forensic medicine program and as a volunteer on mission trips to Ethiopia and Peru. Currently, Teferi is working as a principal investigator, conducting clinical trials in the vaccine and therapeutic space.