3 New Members Appointed Princeton Area Community Foundation Trustees

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ — The Princeton Area Community Foundation has appointed three new members, including a Lawrenceville resident, to the Board of Trustees.

Peg Forrestel, Heather Eshelman McCusker and John P. Thurber were appointed to three-year terms on the Board at its June meeting.

“We want to welcome our three newest members,” Sonia Delgado, Board Chair said in a statement. “They bring a wealth of experience and join a talented group of Trustees who are working to further our mission of promoting philanthropy to advance the well-being of our communities forever.”

Thurber, of Lawrence, has more than 35 years of legal, public policy, strategic analysis, and organizational development experience. He previously served as vice president for Public Affairs at Thomas Edison State University, executive vice president for the Thomas Edison State University Foundation, Inc., and was the founding director of the University’s John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy and its Trenton Office of Policy Studies. Before joining the University, he served with the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate.

McCusker is a shareholder at Stevens & Lee from Yardley, Pa., and is Co-Head of the firm’s New Jersey Estates and Trusts practice, where she concentrates on wealth planning, estates and trusts and fiduciary matters. She frequently lectures on a broad range of tax, trust, estate and fiduciary-related topics and presents before the community and professional education organizations for accountants, financial planners and advisers, attorneys and insurance professionals.

Forrestel, of Holland, Pa., leads the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson’s social impact efforts. She joined Johnson & Johnson 26 years ago, working in finance in internal audit, operations, and marketing departments within the company at its corporate office as well as its offices in New Jersey and Puerto Rico. She previously worked in public accounting for Coopers & Lybrand.

The Community Foundation awarded more than $19 million in grants last year and has provided more than $173 million in grants since its founding 30 years ago.