Moorestown Friends School Names 3 New Trustees

Moorestown, NJ -- The Moorestown Friends School Committee has appointed three new trustees, the school announced. The trustees are Kennette Banks, Janice Johnston, and Julia Onorato.

Banks is employed by Uncommon Schools in New York City. She is Director of Operations at the campus of Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant. She graduated from Swarthmore College, where she majored in linguistics.

After college, she worked in admissions for Swarthmore and then joined First Graduate as a Program Associate. First Graduate is a college-readiness program in the San Francisco Bay Area for first-generation post-secondary students.

She then earned her M.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a member of the Moorestown Friends School’s Head’s Advisory Board, having served her first term in March.

Johnston is a Senior Producer at ABC News Magazines and Specials. She has won multiple Emmy Awards and nominations, two George Foster Peabody Awards and has also been honored with a Salute to Excellence Award by the National Association of Black Journalists.

A former practicing attorney, she has been with ABC News since 1998, where she has worked on both “20/20” and “Good Morning America.”

She is a graduate of Princeton University and earned her law degree from the University of Virginia.
Her commitment to Moorestown Friends School has included serving as an alumni class representative, keynoting the Cum Laude and World Languages Banquet in 2003 and Career Day in 2015.

She recently hosted a Moorestown Friends School alumnus as a production intern at “20/20.”

Onorato is a Tax Associate at the New York City law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on executive compensation. She was previously associated with Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP.

She is a graduate of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law magna cum laude, where she also was the Associate Editor of Northwestern University Law Review and belonged to the Order of the Coif.

Prior to law school, she worked as a Management Associate at L’Oreal. She has a bachelor’s degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

She served in the inaugural class of the Moorestown Friends School’s Head’s Advisory Board (2014 and 2015). She was an original at the school, and a member of Cum Laude Society.

The attached images of Kennette Banks, Janice Johnston, and Julia Onorato were provided by Moorestown Friends School