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Current Term: July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2026
Email Michael Ciriello: mciriello@mw.k12.ny.us

Michael Ciriello is serving his second term on the Monroe-Woodbury Board of Education. He is serving as Vice President of the Board for the 2024-2025 school year. Previously, he served as President of the Board for the 2023-2024 and 2022-2023 school years, as well as Vice President in 2021-2022.  He has worked in the financial services industry for over 35 years.  Michael is an experienced leader and business strategist who holds a BBA in business administration and an Executive MBA from St. Joseph’s College.  He has resided in Central Valley with his wife Susan and two children for over the past 11 years.

Current Term: July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025
Email Suzanne Donahue: sdonahue@mw.k12.ny.us

Suzanne Donahue is serving her fourth term on the Monroe-Woodbury Board of Education. She is a retired New York City High School math teacher. During her teaching years, she served in various leadership roles including testing coordinator, program chair, and executive board member of the school’s United Federation of Teachers chapter and taught at the Walton Campus Young Adult Borough Center Program as well as a TOC GRE Prep class on Saturdays, working with teaching interns and the Summer Bridge Program for the Lehman College Research Foundation’s TRiOS program. She is still serving as scheduling consultant at the Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music and was elected to serve as a delegate for the UFT's Retired Teachers Chapter. Suzanne earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in mathematics education, both from Lehman College, Bronx, NY. She is a widow with two grown children and six grandsons, two of whom graduated from M-W High School. Suzanne has a 10-year-old grandson who is attending CV Elementary School and will be in the 5th grade in the fall. She lives in Highland Mills.

Current Term: July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2026
Email Sergey Koyfman: skoyfman@mw.k12.ny.us

Dr. Sergey Koyfman is serving his second term on the Monroe-Woodbury Board of Education. Dr. Koyfman practices Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery with ENT and Allergy Associates. He serves at Orange Regional Medical Center as Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology as well as Medical Director of Head and Neck Oncology, and is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Koyfman and his wife have two sons, one who graduated from M-W high school, and the other who is a member of the Class of 2024.

Current Term: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027
Email: cnovack@mw.k12.ny.us

Candice Novack is serving her first term on the Board of Education. She and her husband have been residents of Monroe for 12 years and their two sons attend M-W schools. Candice earned bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Chemistry from the University of Rhode Island and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. She has 15+ years experience in research and development of consumer goods. Candice has led and participated in community outreach with Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson, Pittsburgh Public Schools, and has also volunteered as a guest lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Manhattan College. 

Current Term: July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025
Email Staci McCleary: smccleary@mw.k12.ny.us

Staci McCleary is serving her third term as a member of the Monroe-Woodbury Board of Education. She served as President of the Board for the 2021-2022 and 2020-2021 school years. Staci and her family have lived in Monroe since 2006 and moved here because of the school district's great reputation. She earned a bachelor's degree in education from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, and a master's degree in school counseling from St. John's University, Queens, NY. Staci worked for the NYC Board of Education as an elementary school counselor. She and her husband have four children, three that have graduated from Monroe-Woodbury and a senior graduating in 2025.

Term: July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025
Email Jeff Reynolds: jereynolds@mw.k12.ny.us

Jeff Reynolds is serving his first term as a member of the Monroe-Woodbury Board of Education. He has served at the United States Military Academy, West Point for more than 20 years in multiple positions and currently serves as the 31st Chief of Protocol and as a Designated Federal Officer for the Academy. In the private sector Jeff provides Strategic Communications and VIP consulting work with dozens of professional sport teams and leagues. Reynolds earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Mount Saint Mary College and received his Master of Science degree in School Counseling from Long Island University. Jeff and Michelle have lived in Monroe/ Highland Mills for over 12 years and have 3 children in the Monroe-Woodbury Central School district and 2 recent Monroe-Woodbury graduates. 

Term: July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2026
Email: Norise Robinson: nrobinson@mw.k12.ny.us

Norise Robinson is serving her first term on the Monroe-Woodbury Board of Education. Norise moved to Monroe with her husband in 2006 and now has 2 young boys in the school district. Norise achieved her Bachelors in Sociology and Psychology from New York University and continued her education in Physiology at New York Medical College. After achieving her Masters in Science and conducting research for 5 years on Group B Strep, she found there to be a lack of qualified science educators in her local school district in NYC. She went on to achieve her Masters in Science Education and began teaching middle school science in the Bronx, where she has remained a middle school educator for 12 years. She is excited to begin her work on the school board and not only learn about the education system from a different perspective, but use her knowledge as an educator to help serve the Monroe-Woodbury School District.

Current Term: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027
ksimmons@mw.k12.ny.us

Kaytlin Simmons is serving her first term as a member of the Monroe-Woodbury Board of Education. She and her husband have lived in Monroe for nearly 14 years and are the proud parents of 10-year-old twin daughters who will be attending MWMS in the fall. Professionally, Kaytlin is the Deputy Commissioner of Operations & Chief Diversity Officer at the Department of Investigation, one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country. She graduated cum laude from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and received her J.D. from New York Law School.

Term: July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2027
Email Dawn Tauber: dtauber@mw.k12.ny.us

Dawn Tauber is currently serving her third term on the Board of Education and is the President of the Board for the 2024-2025 school year. She has been a resident of the Monroe-Woodbury community for over 20 years. Dawn's son, Jaden, graduated from Monroe-Woodbury High School in 2021 and is now attending Cornell University. Her other son, Jace, graduated from Monroe-Woodbury High School in 2023 and is attending SUNY Stony Brook.

Term July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025

Each year, the Board of Education selects a student to serve as an ex officio, non-voting member, in accordance with the provisions of Section 1702 of the Education Law, as approved by public vote in May 2016. The student member of the Board of Education serves as the voice of the students by providing brief reports sharing issues of importance to the student body.