East Windsor Education Association

Leadership – Who Are We?

President: Ellen Ogintz – Ellen is an elementary special education teacher, who has taught for almost 40 years! She is a recent recipient of the East Windsor/Hightstown Mayors’ Shining Star Award” for her contributions to the community. She has been an Association Representative, Membnew EO headshotership Chairperson, Negotiations Team member,and Vice President for EWEA. She has been their President for the last ten years. Ellen is also the Corresponding Secretary for the Mercer County Education Association, and represents the County at the NJEA Delegate Assembly . Ellen is proud to represent the over 480 members of the East Windsor Education Association and believes communication is the key…emails, Facebook, and the webpage. She is confident that the more members know about the Association the more they will want to get involved.

 
 
 

1st Vice President: Chris Carpenter – Chris has been a teacher at the Melvin H. Kreps School for seventeen years.  He has served on the Negotiations Committee and has also been an Association Rep. Chris is currently the Mercer County EA Recording Secretary. Chris is the committee chair for various NJEA committees, so his finger is always on the pulse of our union.
 
 
 
 2nd Vice president: Karen Rogers – Karen has been a nurse in our district for almost 30 years! She will be at the Grace Norton Rogers School this year. Karen was the Building Rep at WCB for many years, has been on the Negotiation Team several times, and has co-chaired the Health and Safety Committee. Karen is an extremely passionate and strong advocate for her members and doesn’t “mess around” when it comes to member rights and negotiations.
 
 
 
Treasurer: Kathleen Carvalho – Kathleen has been teaching in the East Windsor Regional School District for the past eighteen years. 
She has worked in both Special and Regular Education and is now a second grade WCB teacher.  Kathleen has been an Association Representative, PRIDE Chairperson, Newsletter Editor, Treasurer, and Negotiations Team Chairperson.   Kathleen believes that education is power and the more you know about your Association, the more you can help members serve students.
 
 
 
 
Secretary: Frances Lavelle– Frances teaches 8th grade social studies and has just completed her eleventh year of teaching. Although she came late to teaching, she has always recognized the importance of a strong union. She is delighted to work alongside the EWEA team to best serve all our members!
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Webmistress : Casey Fox– Casey is an English teacher at HHS who has been itching to get BACK to Association involvement since her son was born and Communications Chairperson is the perfect spot for Casey! Casey is now the webmistress for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,  this webpage and anything out there that is social media. In the past, Casey was a vice president and has never lost her passion for advocacy and member rights.