Bronxville Non-Partisan Committee Invites Community Input on Applicants for School Board Trustees
By Bronxville NPC
March 27, 2024: The Bronxville Non-Partisan Committee (“NPC”) has received two applications from individuals who seek to be nominated by the NPC as candidates for School Board Trustee of The Bronxville School. These candidates are also current School Board Trustees finishing up their 1st term as board members.
-Susan Conniff
-Miki Kapoor
The NPC invites members of the Bronxville community to submit insights regarding the candidates’ qualifications to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or to contact your NPC district representative (listed on our website). Anonymous feedback will be discarded in accordance with NPC rules of procedure. Please provide feedback by the end of the day April 8th. Feedback will be confidential and shared only within the NPC to help with our deliberations.
NPC CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES:
Susan Conniff
Susan and her family have been residents of Bronxville since 2013. She and her husband, Chris, have two daughters in college who graduated from the Bronxville School in 2021 and 2023. Susan will complete three years of service on the school board at the end of this year.
Susan has been a committed parent and active community member, serving as PTA Treasurer, PTA rep to the District Safety Committee, Community Fund Treasurer and Secretary, Reformed Church Nursery School Treasurer, Chapel School PTO Treasurer and Golf Outing Chair, and Bronxville Derby Secretary.
Professionally, Susan started her career as a CPA, investment banker for JP Morgan and later as VP for Finance at Loyola School in Manhattan where she worked with their Finance Committee and Board of Trustees. Following Loyola, Susan served as a Board member and Finance Committee chair for Xavier High School in Manhattan while consulting for other private schools and presenting at a conference on secondary school governance at the University of San Francisco. Most recently she co-founded a foundation focused on improving college access for first-generation, Pell-eligible students.
Originally from Massachusetts, Susan attended public schools before receiving her BS in Accounting from the University of Virginia, followed by an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and an MA in Journalism from Columbia University.
Susan has been grateful for the opportunity to serve on the Bronxville Board of Education during the past three years, including two years as Board President. She has served on the finance, audit, negotiations, and curriculum committees, and as liaison to the Bronxville School Foundation. Working together with her colleagues and the Superintendent, accomplishments include:
-A successful superintendent search during 2022-23 resulting in the appointment of 28-year district veteran Dr. Rachel Kelly
-Improved communications with the community, meeting recaps, issue-focused workshops and website updates including updated curriculum timelines
-An update of the District’s Bronxville Promise to strengthen language around belonging, technology and civil discourse
-Strong financial stewardship with budgets delivered under the tax cap while supporting improvements in programming
Miki Kapoor
Miki Kapoor and his wife, Heidi, are the parents of three children at the Bronxville School (aged 12, 10, and 6) and have been Bronxville residents for ten years. Miki is an active member of the community and has served on the Bronxville school board for 2.5 years and the Bronxville Police Community Relations Committee. He has also served on several other for-profit and not-for-profit boards in the past.
Professionally, Miki is a healthcare operational executive for healthcare data and technology companies. He is an operating partner at Linden Capital Partners, a private equity fund based in Chicago. In 2017, Miki co-founded and served as the CEO of Verana Health, a healthcare technology company that assembles clinical datasets to enable faster research and development of medicines. Prior to Verana Health, Miki was the CEO of Tea Leaves Health (leading to an acquisition), President of the publicly-traded Everyday Health (also leading to an acquisition), and ran a division of a healthcare data company called IQVIA (leading to an IPO). Miki has also served as Executive Vice President for the Clinton Foundation while living in India and leading healthcare operations for Africa and India.
Miki attended graduate school at Yale University, where he received an MBA in Finance and an MPH in Health Policy. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Washington University in Saint Louis. Miki is a Fulbright Fellow, formerly a visiting professor at two universities, and has served on the boards of several healthcare organizations.
As a Board of Education member, during the past three years, Miki has served on the facilities committee of the board for two years, the health & safety committee during the pandemic, the strategy & curriculum committee, and he has served as liaison to the Bronxville School Foundation and the PTA. Details below:
-2021: Facilities, PTA liaison, Health & Safety,
-2022: Finance, Strategy & Curriculum
-2023: Foundation liaison, Facilities
What does the NPC do?
The NPC was formed in 1936 to:
-Foster the election of Trustees of the Bronxville School on a non-partisan basis.
-Seek qualified Bronxville residents who are interested in serving on the school board. Nomination by the NPC is not a requirement to run for the school board.
-Actively solicit community input about all applicants, then nominate a candidate for each open position, being as transparent as possible to the Bronxville community in its process.
-Be representative - with twenty one members elected by Bronxville residents, three from each election district.
To learn more, visit www.bronxvillenpc.org, and follow us on Instagram @bronxvillenpc. We welcome any feedback on the NPC or its Rules at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please note that the Bronxville NPC is a volunteer organization. Donations are greatly appreciated and may be made through the link on our website.
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Bronxville is a quaint village (one square mile) located just 16 miles north of midtown Manhattan (roughly 30 minutes on the train) and has a population of approximately 6,500. It is known as a premier community with an excellent public school (K-12) and easy access to Manhattan. Bronxville offers many amenities including an attractive business district, a hospital (Lawrence Hospital), public paddle and tennis courts, fine dining at local restaurants, two private country clubs and a community library.
While the earliest settlers of Bronxville date back to the first half of the 18th century, the history of the modern suburb of Bronxville began in 1890 when William Van Duzer Lawrence purchased a farm and commissioned the architect, William A. Bates, to design a planned community of houses for well-known artists and professionals that became a thriving art colony. This community, now called Lawrence Park, is listed on the National register of Historic Places and many of the homes still have artists’ studios. A neighborhood association within Lawrence Park called “The Hilltop Association” keeps this heritage alive with art shows and other events for neighbors.
Bronxville offers many charming neighborhoods as well as a variety of living options for residents including single family homes, town houses, cooperatives and condominiums. One of the chief benefits of living in “the village” is that your children can attend the Bronxville School.
The Bronxville postal zone (10708, known as “Bronxville PO”) includes the village of Bronxville as well as the Chester Heights section of Eastchester, parts of Tuckahoe and the Lawrence Park West, Cedar Knolls, Armour Villa and Longvale sections of Yonkers. Many of these areas have their own distinct character. For instance, the Armour Villa section has many historic homes and even has its own newsletter called “The Villa Voice” which reports on neighborhood news.
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