Kathy Law-Imperato PRESIDENT

Kathy is honored to once again be the President of the John C. Hart Board of Trustees as a returning board member (2012-2022). Kathy is a long term Yorktowner having grown up in the Lakeland School District before moving to California with her family in 1979. As a young girl she loved to read and spent many afternoons choosing books with her mother at the John C. Hart Memorial Library. She returned with her husband, Joe, in 2005 to raise their two children in Yorktown. Kathy’s early career was as an Institutional Equity Sales Trader in Manhattan. She stayed close to home with her children while working in Yorktown schools, visiting John C Hart’s children’s room and furthering her own education to become a triple certified NYS teacher. She is now a Special Education Coordinator and Reading Intervention teacher at City College Magnet School of the Arts in Manhattan, NY.

contact:
klawimperato@yorktownlibrary.org

Jean Zappia
VICE PRESIDENT

Jean Zappia has lived in Yorktown Heights for over 28 years, where she raised 2 children and still resides with her husband, Robert Fahey. She is a veteran of the chemicals industry, with extensive experience in sales, marketing, and commercial leadership roles. She retired from Ashland LLC in 2020, and since then has been pursuing her passions in literacy, business management consulting and financial advising, and promotion of STEM careers for girls in a variety of board and volunteer roles. She is happy to lend support to the John C Hart Library as a member of the Board of Trustees, which has been part of her family’s lives since they arrived in Yorktown.

contact:
jzappia@yorktownlibrary.org

Laura Tropp
SECRETARY

Laura Tropp, Ph.D. is the Director of Academic Affairs & Associate Campus Director and affiliated faculty member in the Department of Digital Media and Design at the University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus. Dr. Tropp is the author of several books, including Grandparenting in a Digital Age: The Third Act and A Womb With a View: America’s Growing Public Interest in Pregnancy. She has been featured in magazines and newspapers discussing technology and popular culture and was an online columnist about work-life balance for Inside Higher Ed. She has always enjoyed spending time at the library with her children.

contact:
ltropp@yorktownlibrary.org

Barry Erenberg
TREASURER

I have been privileged to take my kids to the John C. Hart Memorial Library since our family moved to Yorktown Heights in 1997. The resources the Library provide benefits our community in so many ways. I look forward to helping the library with my experience as NYS licensed architect with my own firm for the last 30 years. My design and project management experience ranges from libraries to state-of-the-art educa­tional facilities to community health centers. I appreciate the importance of the Hart Library and look forward to helping with its mission.

contact:
berenberg@yorktownlibrary.org

Cathleen Bahan
MEMBER AT LARGE

Applying for a Hart Library card was one of the first things I did upon moving to Shrub Oak 18 years ago. Recently retired, my 30-plus years in marketing span full-time experience with Fortune 100, startup and nonprofit organizations, as well as consulting. I have deep respect for the role of reading in lifelong learning and am delighted by the opportunity to assist The Hart as it navigates the community’s ever-changing needs.

contact:
cbahan@yorktownlibrary.org