With fall semester classes beginning today (Aug. 30), Â鶹´«Ã½ announces the appointment of three distinguished alumni to its Board of Trustees. Susan Gerardo Dunn ’84, David L. Nunes ’83 and MacKenzie Teymouri ’09 took office this summer on the board of one of the world’s leading liberal arts colleges, named by The New York Times as one of the top higher education institutions “doing the most for the American dream.â€
Susan Gerardo Dunn ’84
Susan Gerardo Dunn ’84 is a writer, editor, publisher and founder of Indicia Media, which produces the local daily news website Baltimore Fishbowl and publishes an annual print guide to local schools. She serves as general manager, editorial director, director of digital strategy and product manager. She previously founded a local print magazine for women in Baltimore and, prior to that, was a freelance writer and education reporter. Early in her career, she served as communications director at Advocates for Children and Youth, a nonprofit that focuses on children’s issues. At Pomona, she was an English major and editor-in-chief of The Student Life. She also serves as a board member of the Walters Art Museum, Gilman School, the Thomas Wilson Foundation and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center’s Women’s Hospital Foundation.
David L. Nunes ’83
David L. Nunes ’83 has more than three decades of forest products industry experience. For the past seven years, he has served as president and chief executive officer of Rayonier Inc. (NYSE: RYN), a leading international real estate investment trust that owns, leases or manages approximately 2.7 million acres of high-quality timberland in the U.S. South, U.S. Pacific Northwest and New Zealand. Prior to that, he served for 12 years as president and CEO of Pope Resources, which owned timberland in the Pacific Northwest and built a successful private equity timber fund business. His prior experience also includes stints at the Weyerhaeuser Company, a leading international forest products company, and Seattle-Snohomish Mill Company, a family-owned sawmill in Washington state started by his grandfather and great-grandfather. At Pomona, he earned his bachelor’s degree in economics, and also holds a master’s degree in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
MacKenzie Teymouri ’09
MacKenzie Teymouri ’09 is a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County. Currently, she manages a caseload focusing on the prosecution of serious and violent felony offenses. Prior to attending law school at the University of Southern California (USC), she was a clinical research associate at City of Hope National Medical Center, as well as a volunteer counselor advocate for the Los Angeles Rape and Battering Hotline. She is a published author in the Southern California Law Review, the Psycho-Oncology journal and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. At Pomona, she graduated magna cum laude, with a major in anthropology and a minor in psychology. While captain of the varsity softball team, she earned the Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.