The trustees are Kennette Banks, Janice Johnston and Julia Onorato.
Three new trustees were recently appointed to the Moorestown Friends School (MFS) Committee. The trustees are Kennette Banks ’02, Janice Johnston ’88 and Julia Onorato ’04.
Kennette Banks ’02 is employed by Uncommon Schools in New York City; she is director of operations at the campus of Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College, where she majored in linguistics.
After college, she worked in admissions for Swarthmore and then joined First Graduate as a program associate. First Graduate is a college-readiness program in the San Francisco Bay Area for first-generation post-secondary students. Later, she earned her master’s in education from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a member of the MFS Head’s Advisory Board, having served her first term in March 2016.
Janice Johnston ’88 is a senior producer at ABC News Magazines and Specials. She has won multiple Emmy Awards and nominations, two George Foster Peabody Awards and has also been honored with a Salute to Excellence Award by the National Association of Black Journalists. A former practicing attorney, she has been with ABC News since 1998. There she has worked on both 20/20 and Good Morning America.
Johnston is a graduate of Princeton University and earned her law degree from the University of Virginia. Her commitment to MFS has included serving as an alumni class representative, keynoting the Cum Laude and World Languages Banquet in 2003 and Career Day in 2015. She recently hosted an MFS alumnus as a production intern at 20/20.
Julia Onorato ’04 is a tax associate at the New York City law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on executive compensation. She was previously associated with Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP. She is a graduate of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law magna cum laude, where she also was the associate editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and belonged to the Order of the Coif.
Prior to law school, she worked as a management associate at L’Oreal. She has a bachelor’s degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She served in the inaugural class of the MFS Head’s Advisory Board in 2014 and 2015. She was an original at MFS and a member of Cum Laude Society.
