Meet the Board

Katherine Kanaga- PRESIDENT

Katherine moved to Columbia County in 2010 after visiting the county for many years. Katherine holds a BA, MA, and M. Phil from Columbia University. Her background includes 24 years at Marsh & McLennan, from which she retired as the Property Practice for the International Division at the end of 2009 shortly after returning from 5 years in London. While in New York, Katherine mentored girls at a NYC public high school as part of a Financial Women’s Association program. She is active in the Columbia County and Hudson communities as Vice-Chair of Art Omi in Ghent, NY, and co-Chair of the Friends of the Public Square in Hudson, NY

Philip Forman, Co-Founder 

Philip has been a board member since its inception. He has served as treasurer and  senior advisor. Prior to moving to Hudson in 2008, Phil was a founding partner of  Mitchell Madison, a global consulting firm. He currently chairs Hudson’s Historic  Preservation Commission, a post he has held since 2015. He also serves as  Treasurer of Hudson Development Corp.  

Don Moore- treasurer 

Don Moore is a Hudson activist, for its families, for the breadth of its diverse cultures and for its future.   After retiring from higher education administration, Don spent over a decade as an elected official and full-time volunteer in economic development, the performing arts and community building.  He is a former three-term President of the Hudson Common Council who made it a signature of his time in office to open the responsibilities of committee chairs and assignments to include all communities represented on the Council, who provided leadership and advocacy for anchor building projects like the renovation of Washington Hose and the construction of Hudson’s Police and Court Center.  He co-chaired the 2016 Fair and Equal campaign to equalize the voting power of the City’s five Wards and served for one term as a Columbia County Supervisor representing Hudson’s Third Ward and as the Mayor’s deputy for part of 2019.  Don has volunteered in leadership roles on the boards of a number of Hudson nonprofit organizations including the Hudson Development Corporation, Christ Episcopal Church, Classics on Hudson, Operation Unite New York and Friends of the Historic Presbyterian Church.  With his two children and two grandchildren, Hudson is now home to three generations of Moores.

JEFFREY ZEILER - Secretary

Jeffrey had a long career in advertising in New York and now works part time at Columbia University helping administer a community service program that provides free GED and ESOL classes to low income adults in Harlem. She's in Hudson most weekends and champions the idea of helping Perfect Ten Girls imagine a larger world and see themselves thriving in it

AMY ADLER

Amy settled in Hudson for four years ago to be near her daughter, Tamar Adler. She holds a Ph.D. from the Ferkauf School of Psychology, Yeshiva University and has spent most of her professional life, both as a children’s summer camp owner and co-director and a developmental psychologist, working with children and their parents. Amy worked at the Early Child Development Center at Albert Einstein College of Medical School providing dyadic therapy for parents and foster parents and their 2-7 year old children who had experienced trauma, language disabilities, and pervasive developmental disorders. Amy has been a faithful volunteer at Perfect Ten, teaching baking and cooking classes and providing home-made lunch once a week.

NICK BENNETT

Nick has spent the last 20 years as a leader and advocate for innovative digital marketing technologies helping to reshape how marketers approach consumer engagement. He is an expert in in his field with a deep understanding of how data and technology can intersect to drive marketing outcomes. Nick has been an executive leader for businesses across the globe, leading high-performing teams and business units in many regions. He has held senior positions within large corporate businesses such as Twitter, Yahoo and innovative start-ups such as BrightRoll, Place Exchange.  Nick's career has taken him around the world living in Perth, Melbourne, San Francisco and New York before now settling in upstate, New York.

Debbi Calton

Debbi Calton-Roberts is a seasoned radio broadcaster who began her career at Guilford College, Greensboro, NC. She has worked all over the country. Her career includes thirty seven years on Philadelphia radio and she continues to do a weekly online radio show for OutsideFM.com which she writes, records and produces at home. She is an ongoing host for American Public Television/ PBS music shows. Debbi was also part of a Grammy Award winning project for ALL ABOUT BULLIES BIG AND SMALL. Debbi now lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband Chip Roberts, a musician, and they have an adult son. Debbi has a stained glass studio at home and is also on the Albert B. Roberts Foundation Board. Debbi hopes that her involvement with Perfect Ten will allow her to leave a mark on young women to believe in themselves and to never settle for less 

Krisiti Sangster

Kristi Sangster was born in Ithaca, New York, to Canadian parents. She lived in New York until age three and then moved to Canada with her family where she was raised and educated. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at Saint Mary’s University followed by the French immersion program at L’Universite´ Sainte-Anne.  Several years later, she moved to Chonju, South Korea where she taught ESL to students ranging in age from 5 to 65 years of age. She returned to Nova Scotia and received her Bachelor of Design and Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University. In 2004, Kristi left Canada once again and moved to New York City where she spent a decade working in product design. She relocated to Hudson in 2014. As a full time resident of Hudson, she has been involved in the Hudson art community participating in several exhibitions at Circle 46 Gallery and TSL. She also volunteers for Precious Pounds Pet Rescue, an organization based out of New York and Georgia that rescues animals from high intake shelters. 

Jackie Salvatore

Jackie is a life-long Columbia County resident and a proud graduate of Hudson High School. She attended Columbia-Greene Community College and earned an Associate’s Degree in Biblical Studies from Vision Christian Bible College & Seminary. Jackie worked for NYS for 33 years, starting at the NYS Crime Victims Board, OMRDD, now Office for Persons with Developmental Differences and the Development Disabilities Planning Council, where wages were negotiated for persons providing direct care. Jackie served 28 years as a New York State Trooper where she held the titles of Trooper, Investigator, Regional Coordinator and retired as a Senior Investigator and the Director/Detail Commander of the NYS Police Employee Assistance Program. Jackie spent more than 20 years building and managing a family contracting business. She started a career in Aviation with DGS in 2016 as a Ramp Agent and after a promotion to Supervisor, was once again promoted, in 2018, to Station Manager and oversaw full handling of Operations for United Airlines at Albany Airport. She left the Aviation Industry in 2019 to accept a position as the Chief Administrative Officer for the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency. On January 1, 2022, she became the first female and person of color to assume the position of Undersheriff in Columbia County.

Shanatia Bygrave

Shanatia “Tia” Bygrave is the Branch Manager of Greylock Federal Credit Union Greenport/Hudson branch. She has nearly 20 years in banking industry and is a certified financial coach with the National Credit Union Association (CUNA), a recent graduated of the AACUC DEI Leadership academy for financial professionals and a recipient of the 40 under 40 awards 2022. Tia is a Rotarian and also has the role as Treasurer of the Hudson Rotary Club. She is also a long-standing member of the board and also Treasurer of FOHY (Friends of Hudson Youth). Shanatia also sits on the board of Columbia County Chambers and CREATE Council of the Arts.  Shanatia is passionate about financial wellness for all and works with many local organizations to provide seminars for their employees on topics like budgeting, credit, building savings, homeownership and many more. Tia believes that having financial freedom and stability is an important key to a better life. If our low to moderate income families don’t know how to have this, it will continue the cycle of feeling bound to living paycheck to paycheck. She also feels educating our youth at a young age is very important to help break that cycle and will not stop until our youth learn all they need to learn to reach this goal.