The Island School Board of Directors

Francesca is a post-doctoral associate at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami and has a Ph.D in Marine Biology and Fisheries and an MSc. in Marine Affairs and Policy. She attended The Island School in Fall 1999 and returned to work as a SCUBA instructor in Fall 2001. She served on the Cape Eleuthera Foundation Board from 2004 until she joined the CEIS board in 2012. Francesca lives in Miami with her husband Ian.

Mr. Fields served as Senior Vice President of Retail Services and Public Affairs for Atlantis from 1998-2020 and continues to serve as General Manager of Ocean Club Residences and Marina. He is the Principal of EF consulting with clients such as Atlantis, Lyford Cay Club and Global Ports Holdings. A well-known radio host with a diverse background, he serves as Director of the Bahamas Airport Authority, Catholic Board of Education and Downtown Nassau Partnership. Mr. Fields is the Founder and Chairman of the non-partisan, non-profit organization ‘We the People’. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Government from St. John’s University in Minnesota and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Georgia.

David and his wife Beverly have sent daughter Renee (S03) and son Travis (S05) to The Island School Semester program. Dave is a doctor of ophthalmology in private practice in Grand Rapids, MI. He is a member of several medical associations and serves in an advisory capacity to many community-based organizations including the East Grand Rapids Schools Foundation, Macatawa Park Cottagers Association, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

A native of Boston and Maine, Mark earned his Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bates College and a graduate degree in education from Harvard University. He worked in both secondary and higher education as an educator, college counselor, and admission officer including roles at Bates, Harvard, Harvard-Westlake School, Marlborough School and Occidental College. In 2001, he assumed his current position as Vice President for Enrollment at Colorado College. Mark is a Foundation Trustee for the Cloud Forest School in Monteverde Costa Rica, serves on the Enrollment and Marketing Committee at the Colorado Springs School, and is on the Advisory Board of the Mastery Transcript Consortium. Mark is married to an independent school English teacher and has two daughters ages 19 and 17. His youngest daughter, Heather, attended The Island School (Summer Term 2019) and served as an Admission Ambassador.

Ian is the head of AOML’s Coral Program. His research focuses on understanding the responses of corals and reef biota to global change. He is particularly interested in the impacts of warming and ocean acidification on the persistence of coral reef framework structures that provide essential habitat and support numerous ecosystem services. Enochs applies a multidisciplinary approach, conducting research in both the laboratory and the field, as well as developing new technologies to address pressing research questions. He is a PI of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program, and leads several projects pertaining to the Coral Reef Conservation Program’s restoration pillar and NOAA’s Omics initiative. Enochs graduated cum laude from the University of Miami in 2006 and later earned his Ph.D. at RSMAS in 2010 for his research on the environmental determinants of coral reef cryptic metazoan biodiversity in Pacific Panama. Enochs is a research ecologist with the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division of NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami.

Dr. Brown is the founding chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. After graduating from medical school in 1986, he completed his EM residency training at Butterworth Hospital, subsequently joining the faculty. During this period, he developed a passion for summarizing evidence in a form that is useful to clinicians. This interest led to an M.Sc. in Epidemiology focusing on evidence synthesis (i.e., meta-analysis). Dr. Brown serves as the University Physician, on the Editorial Board for Cochrane, and the Editor for Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods. Dr. Brown’s two daughters, Nikki and Randi, attended The Island School in S’06 and S’09.