Roy Tau
President
Roy Tau has been a House Leader at Camphill Village Copake since 2013 when he arrived from South Africa. Previously, Roy worked as a Financial Advisor for a large investment company in South Africa. He graduated from Damelin Business School, South Africa with diplomas in Human Resources Management and Payroll Administration. In 2013 Roy arrived as a social therapist student with The Camphill Academy. In the summer of 2016 Roy became a member of the Village’s Focus Group and Board of Directors. In 2019, Roy also joined the Camphill Ghent board.
Judith Jackson
Vice President
Judith Jackson spent her early years on a dairy farm in southern Vermont. She attended Northfield School for Girls and Wellesley College and received a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Columbia University. She completed horticultural studies at the New York Botanical Garden’s School of Horticulture. Ms. Jackson spent most of her professional life as Director of Communication at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a national laboratory dedicated to research in particle physics, the fundamental physics of the universe. She devoted her career to developing new and innovative ways to communicate with policy makers and the public about physics research. At Fermilab, she formed the Community Task Force, created to learn how community members would like to interact with the laboratory when issues arose that affected both Fermilab and the neighbors. She formed the InterAction collaboration, an international science communication group that began with six laboratories and now includes 25 institutions worldwide.
Barry Lefkowitz
Treasurer
Barry Lefkowitz is President and Chief Executive Officer of Huntington Road Advisors LLC, a real estate investment advisory firm, and Co-Founder of HMC Real Estate Services LLC, an investment management firm focused on value-added industrial flex/office properties. Mr. Lefkowitz served on the Board of Directors of ShopOne Centers REIT Inc. from 2018 to 2022. In 2016, he served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Brixmor Property Group Inc., owner of one of the nation’s largest portfolios of grocery-anchored community and neighborhood shopping centers. Previously, Mr. Lefkowitz was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation from 1997 to 2014, where he oversaw investor relations, strategic financial planning and forecasting, financial reporting, and capital markets activities. Beginning in 2004, he also led the company’s property management and asset management operations. He initially joined Mack-Cali in 1994 as Vice President. Prior to Mack-Cali, Mr. Lefkowitz was a Senior Manager at Deloitte, specializing in real estate. Mr. Lefkowitz is a graduate of Brooklyn College and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Jaime Walker
Secretary
Jaime hails from North Carolina where she graduated from Warren Wilson College with a B.A. in Human Studies and a fire burning within her to contribute to the world in a meaningful way. Through her experience at Warren Wilson, Jaime engaged with the ideals of community, social justice and stewardship of the earth. She discovered the importance of finding commonality and connection that transcends language, culture, ability and economic background. During her first year at Warren Wilson, Jaime met Camphill through a budding friendship with future Heartbeet co-founder Hannah Schwartz, who introduced her to Camphill Kimberton Hills and Camphill Copake. Jaime visited Heartbeet regularly since its beginning, witnessing the community as it grew from one household to its current size. With every visit, she was inspired and encouraged by the relationships she found within the community and the many gifts of life-sharing. Jaime and her son, Taran, moved to Heartbeet in the summer of 2017 seeking the opportunity for them both to grow along with all community members, developing friendship and colleagueship. Jaime has been honored to have been a Householder for 6 years as well as a Crew Leader. Jaime served as the Licensing & Compliance Director for almost three years, a member of the Core Group and Focus Group, the Heartbeet Board, and a Heartbeet trustee for the Camphill Association of North America.
Mary Wildfeuer
Trustee
Mary is the Regional Coordinator for the Camphill Association of North America. For the previous two and a half years Mary had worked as the Coworker Admissions Coordinator for Heartbeet Lifesharing and Triform Camphill communities, respectively. Before that she lived and worked in Camphill Village Kimberton Hills with her family for over 8 years. Mary received a BA in Human Ecology at College of the Atlantic in Maine after growing up in Kimberton Hills and attending the Kimberton Waldorf School. She and her family currently live at Hawthorne Valley Farm where her husband, Todd, is the main vegetable grower. Mary likes to spend time outside and with her family. She is deeply committed to the Camphill impulse and has a special interest in helping bring clarity in social interactions.
Josh Carpenter
Trustee
Josh Carpenter is a counselor, educator and lifelong “connector” who has worked in a number of positions in the field of human services, serving clients in Vermont and throughout the US. He earned a BA in psychology from Oberlin College, an MS in Experiential Education from Lesley College, an MA in Counseling from Johnson State College and a PhD in Counselor Education from the University of Idaho. Josh’s professional work has been far-reaching, ranging from providing support for families through direct casework and case management, instruction for students in higher education, program development, evaluation, and management to overseeing certification and compliance efforts. Josh lives in Vermont with his partner of more than 25 years, Annie Volmer. He has two grown children Abigail, who resides in Sitka Alaska, and Lelia who resides at Heartbeet.
Jon Gleicher
Trustee
Jon Gleicher leads the Game Franchise Analytics organization at Blizzard Entertainment, a premier online game developer based in Southern California; In this capacity Jon’s team supports product development publishing with strategic insights, machine learning, research, and reporting. Prior to his time at Blizzard Jon was a special education teacher in New York City and a Managing Director of Recruitment for Teach For America, the national teacher network, where he led recruitment in Michigan and the Southeast United States. Jon was born and raised in New York City; He earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; He also holds a Masters degree in Childhood Education from the City University of New York and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Jon is the brother of Max Gleicher, a friend at Heartbeet, and is a passionate supporter of Heartbeet and the Camphill Movement. He lives in Orange County, California with his wife Helen and daughter Grace.