Graduate Trustee Ballot 2024

Bio

Drew grew up seven minutes away from Nobles in South Brookline and started Nobles as a Sixie. Under the tutelage of John Gifford ’86, he thrived as the backup quarterback of the middle school football team, entering the game only when the best athlete was laid out flat by the other team. Drew eventually opted for gentler extracurriculars, serving as co-class president for three years, vice president of the student body, opinions editor for the Nobleman, tour guide, prefect, captain of the JV basketball team, and, finally, a varsity tennis player. He also earned the Trustees’ Prize for Scholarship and the Headmaster’s Prize, but far more important to Drew (and much more memorable), is that he made the best friends of his life while at Nobles.

After graduating from Nobles, and with thanks to his college counselor Michael Denning, Drew attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude in 2006 with majors in English and History. He then went on to NYU Law School, graduating in 2009.

Drew returned to Boston to join the law firm WilmerHale after law school. Today, he is a partner in the firm’s commercial litigation group, representing companies (from nonprofits to the Fortune 100) and individuals (founders, directors, officers) in complex business disputes. He also maintains a significant pro bono practice and has successfully represented veterans, juvenile offenders, a pet rescue organization, and a death row inmate.

Drew lives in Wellesley with his wife, Rachel; their kids, Aidan (8) and Chloe (6); and a Bernese Mountain Dog. When not lawyering or parenting, Drew can be found skiing, reading, or revisiting favorite restaurants in the South End. Drew has served on the Annual Nobles Fund (ANF) Executive Committee for many years, on his Class Reunion Committee, and is a member of the Campaign Leadership Committee for a nonprofit called Believe in a Cure, which is dedicated to developing treatments for rare genetic diseases impacting children.

Throughout all of this, Drew has been guided by two pieces of advice he gained from mentors at Nobles. First, from English teacher Dick Baker, character is what you do when nobody is watching. And second, from classics teacher Dan Matlack, semper ubi sub ubi (“always where under where”)!

Personal Statement

I’ll start with a confession: since graduating from Nobles more than 20 years ago, I’ve always wanted to appear on this ballot. The reason is simple. Nobles gave me so much that I think it’s only fair to return the favor. Nobles changed my trajectory. It exposed me to people, places, ideas, and opportunities I never would have encountered. It gave me forever friends, which are the best kind. When I visit campus now, it looks very different from the school I attended, but the sense of purpose and mission remain unchanged. It’s still home.

As a lawyer, I’ve had the opportunity to advise clients—including colleges and universities, CEOs and boards, industry leaders and nonprofits—in their most challenging times. In the years ahead, Nobles will confront new challenges and face difficult decisions in the context of almost limitless possibilities. It would be the honor of a lifetime to serve as a graduate trustee and contribute to the incredible team that will lead Nobles into the future.

Bio

David had two stints at Nobles, first as a student and then as a faculty member from 2009–2014. David played varsity soccer, was a senior prefect, and was a member of the Multicultural Student Association, Brother 2 Brother (Nobles’ affinity group for male students of color), and the Peer Help Program. After earning his Bachelor of Arts in political science from the College of the Holy Cross, he returned to Nobles as the assistant director of diversity initiatives and directed the strategy and implementation of Nobles’ diversity, equity and inclusion programming. He also taught in the history department and coached soccer, basketball, and lacrosse.

David earned a Master of Arts in international security from George Washington University in 2016. Since then, he has dedicated more than five years to combating transnational human trafficking in Colombia, Mexico, Central America, Thailand and Southeast Asia, and the continental United States. He has worked with numerous nonprofits in those countries to develop mitigation strategies, close policy loopholes, and improve service provision to survivors. Currently, he is a cyber threat intelligence consultant at Recorded Future, the world’s largest threat intelligence company. Before that, he was at Booz Allen Hamilton as a federal government program manager and at Polaris, a Washington D.C.-based global nonprofit combatting transnational human trafficking. He was an intelligence analyst and a research and engagement manager. David has also worked at Univision, World Bank Group, and Espacios de Mujer.

In 2020, David received the Ohtli Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Government of Mexico to an individual outside of Mexico, for helping to inform and pass national and international policy results to combat transnational human trafficking. He was also awarded the Presidential Service Award in 2016 for successful work with the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and U.S. Department of State Office to monitor and combat trafficking in persons to counter transnational criminal organizations.

Personal Statement

From my first Assembly as a Sixie, to the writing of these words, the Latin phrase inscribed on the school’s emblem, Spes Sibi Quisque, has been my life’s true north. To me, it inculcated the importance of taking the reins of your life, the duty to own every facet of it. It has led me to live a life with purpose and mission.

Nobles’ history, culture, academic rigor, people, and mission have profoundly shaped me. Every arena of the school (classroom, Assembly, the court, alcoves) was a learning moment that challenged, supported, and helped me grow in meaningful ways. My ability and comfort in communicating complex information to large audiences are rooted in multiple instances where I pursued and built confidence speaking in front of groups in Assembly or an engaging classroom discussion. I’ll highlight Nick Marinaro’s mentally demanding, funny, epic, and formative public speaking class.

Most importantly, the collection of mentors and lifelong friends that serve on my life’s personal board of trustees is predominantly from Nobles.

Bio

Hil is the co-founder and CEO of VivorCare, the first virtual survivorship clinic delivering comprehensive, whole-person care to cancer survivors. Co-developed alongside the clinical and survivor communities, VivorCare is building a new model for survivorship care that empowers survivors to manage the mental and physical health impacts of cancer treatment and navigate the journey ahead. Before founding VivorCare, Hil worked with various healthcare companies, including Hologic, LUCA Biologics, Thrive Earlier Detection, OncoHealth, and Amwell.

A young breast cancer survivor (diagnosed at 28), Hil is also an active patient advocate, mentor, and writer (published in outlets such as New York Magazine, STAT, and Cell Press) in the cancer community. She dedicates her time to raising awareness around cancer survivorship and to being a female entrepreneur in healthcare.

While at Nobles, Hil was fully immersed in the arts and theater communities. She actively participated in the Nobles Theater Collective, Greensleeves, and chorus. No matter how much time passes, Hil still feels a strong sense of pride in being a Nobles “theater kid.”

After Nobles, Hil received her bachelor’s in history of art and archaeology from Princeton University. She also holds a Master of Business Administration and Master of Public Health from Yale University, where she was the co-chair of the 2022 Yale Healthcare Conference and a Solomon Center Fellow at Yale Law School.

Before transitioning into the healthcare space, Hil was the associate director of strategy and innovation at New York-based consultancy LaPlaca Cohen, advising the nation’s leading arts and culture organizations on planning for the future. She currently sits on the board of trustees of the Princeton Triangle Club, the oldest collegiate musical theater organization in the United States that takes an entirely student-produced original musical comedy on an annual national tour.

She now lives in Somerville. Outside of her wild life as a startup founder, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing the daily NYTimes puzzles, and playing with her dog, Levi.

Personal Statement
Since graduating from Nobles in 2008, I’ve had the chance to follow along with the evolution of the school—whether through catch-ups with former teachers (now friends), families of current students, or even one of my best Nobles buddies, who now works on the faculty. It has been remarkable to see the ways that the school has continued to evolve and push itself—and that what made the experience so special (namely, the relationships between teachers and students) has remained the same. I moved out of the Boston area for a decade and only returned when I kicked off breast cancer treatment at Dana Farber in 2018. I was floored by the way the Nobles community—former teachers, friends, and others that I reconnected with or met for the first time—welcomed me back to the area and supported me during that difficult period. It has been a treat to re-engage with Nobles and learn about what the school looks like in 2024—and its aspirations moving forward. It would be a privilege to return the favor and be helpful to the Nobles community in whatever way I can be!