Meet our Team
Founder
Paula is the Founder of Perfect Ten. In her former life, she had a long and successful career in advertising and ultimately was President of Wells Rich Greene BDDP, the New York headquarters of a large global communications network. She and her husband Philip have lived in Hudson full time for over a decade.
Paula Forman
Executive Director
Tina worked at Perfect Ten during its infancy and returned to the organization in June 2019. Having grown up in Hudson, Tina understands the need for after school activities and appreciates the opportunity and experience Perfect Ten has brought into the community, especially for girls. Watching the girls succeed is the most rewarding aspect of her work. Her joyful and quirky attitude are an immediate uplift whenever she is around
Tina’s journey has led her to many interesting and challenging careers - a dancer at Walt Disney World, AFA Union Representative, and a flight attendant to name a few.
Tina Dipper
Program Coordinator
Whitney was drawn to the organization back in 2012, after seeing the lack of resources and inspiration the young girls in her community faced. She enjoys leading and participating in creative workshops, broadening the girls’ experiences, and helping to develop their creative identity. Exploring and learning alongside the girls is one of Whitney's most treasured aspects of working with Perfect Ten. Meeting and getting to know other women in the community is one of her favorite perks of the job
Whitney has been a full-time resident of Hudson over a decade.
Whitney Wilkins
RESET Coordinator
Bernadette moved to Hudson in 2012 and immediately began working in the field of youth development. Bernadette's passion for education is indisputable. She understands that education is the gateway to success and strives to help the girls exceed their academic goals. Bernadette’s sense of community is evident in all she does.
Bernadette Martin
Meet Our 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.
Amy Adler
Amy settled in Hudson four years ago to be near her daughter, Tamar Adler. Amy holds a Ph.D. from the Ferkauf School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She has spent most of her professional life as a children’s summer camp owner, co-director, and developmental psychologist, working with children and their parents. Amy worked at the Early Child Development Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, providing dyadic therapy for parents and foster parents and their 2- to 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 homemade lunch once a week.
Frances Grace
Frances Grace was raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia, but spent all her summers in New England to appease her Mainer mother. Passionate about the arts, theatre, and gardening from a young age, Frances has always walked a creative, non-conformist path. Educated at a Friends high school in Virginia and then at Colorado College, she studied Religion and Gender Studies, volunteered with Planned Parenthood and for Obama’s 2008 campaign, and spent extracurricular time skiing and recreating in the mountains, working on organic farms, and studying yoga and meditation. After college, she completed multiple training programs in the healing arts and various yoga methods. She worked in those fields and volunteered with The Boys and Girls Club in Charlottesville, teaching yoga to elementary school children. Most of her professional career was spent in the events industry in Colorado, where she ran a floral design and styling company called Prema from 2015-2021, designing for luxury weddings in the Rocky Mountains and working as an editorial prop stylist. After closing her business and spending the past few years traveling and focusing on being a full-time mother, she moved to a historic farm in Copake in 2023 with her young son and partner. She is currently focused on transitioning the entire property to organic farming methods, selling cut flowers, and creating a range of botanical distillates and other products, but most of all, she is just enjoying connecting with the land and community of the Hudson Valley.
Cathline Marshall
Cathline Marshall’s career began in Paris while living in Japan, where she sold handmade washi (Japanese rice paper) for gift wrapping. Her unique designs earned her a gallery show in Milan and led to a role styling the iconic windows of Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.
Cathline expanded her expertise by studying graphic arts at Parsons School of Design and internet technologies at Pace University. She later founded her own design business, leading teams of designers, programmers, and copywriters to deliver innovative solutions.
Her corporate career includes serving as Principal Designer at Elsevier, a global publishing company, and leading design initiatives at Edward Jones, Ernst & Young’s innovation studio, and two AI-driven medical startups.
In May 2023, Cathline moved from Brooklyn to Hudson, New York. Since then, she has been collaborating with Perfect Ten on its website and has developed a keen interest in contributing to the organization. She believes her expertise can add significant value to the board.
Currently, as a User Experience Researcher with the IRS, Cathline combines her design, technology, and research expertise to enhance user experiences at scale. Her work reflects a passion for thoughtful, human-centered solutions.
Philip Forman Co-Founder
Since its inception, Philip has been a board member, serving 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.
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 his field and deeply understands 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 companies such as Twitter and Yahoo and innovative start-ups like BrightRoll and 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-Roberts
Debbi Calton-Roberts is a seasoned radio broadcaster who began her career at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. She has worked all over the country. Her career includes thirty-seven years in 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 her involvement with Perfect Ten will allow her to leave a mark on young women, believing in themselves and never settling for less.
Kristi 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’Université 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. 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 in New York and Georgia that rescues animals from high-intake shelters.
Liz Novine
Elizabeth Novine retired after 20 years as a school counselor within the Hudson, NY school district, a Title IX school with 100% of students qualifying for free and reduced lunch. She has extensive experience across all grade levels, working for eight years in grades 2-8, eight years at the high school, and three years in middle school. She excelled at working with high school students, particularly in the area of career counseling, and specialized in finding financial avenues for first-generation college students to access resources for higher education. She values creating relationships with children of all ages, especially those coming from families with little experience in higher education pursuits. Elizabeth excelled in network building with all the stakeholders needed to support each student’s individual post-graduation plan. She takes every child's case individually, creating relationships not only with the child but also with school and career opportunities. Many of her greatest successes were with those students in temporary or unstable housing. Liz has a master's degree in education with a concentration in school counseling from St. Rose in Albany, NY.
Don Moore- Treasurer
Don Moore is a Hudson activist for its families, the breadth of its diverse cultures, and 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. He served 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.
Kendall Turner
Kendall is the Director of the Fund for Alternative Journalism and a professor with the Bard Prison Initiative, where she teaches classes on constitutional law to people earning their college degrees in prison. She also writes about gender and the law for various publications, including The Stranger. Kendall previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and then-Chief Judge Merrick Garland, taught at Stanford Law School and the University of Washington, and argued successfully before the Supreme Court and other federal and state courts. She focused on free speech, reproductive rights, and criminal justice litigation in her practice. Kendall is a graduate of Princeton and Stanford Law School, and she was recognized by Forbes' 30 Under 30 for her work in law.
Jackie Salvatore
Jackie is a lifelong 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 the Office for Persons with Developmental Differences, and the Developmental 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, and 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 to station manager in 2018. She oversaw the 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.