SuperWomen 2022 - FINAL - R3_SJM Feature 10 / 26 / 22 12 : 29 PM Page r DR . JUNE DEPONTE SERNAK DR . KEISHA STEPHENSON TAYLOR Dr . Taylor is the se - Dr . Sernak had several careers before her current position as the nior director , alumni & Statewide Diversity Leadership Officer at The Center for Family Services . Her postsecondary engagement at background and doctoral research guided her to engage agencies throughout NAF , a national network of New Jersey in creating cultural competency plans critical to workplace culture leaders in education , business and service delivery by sharing inclusive education using culturally and linguisti - and their communities work - cally approved standards , as Dr . Sernak believes education is the great equalizer ing together to ensure high and creates a pathway to proficiency in the cultural continuum . As an advocate school students are ready for for diversity and inclusion , she also shares her time devoted to equal rights for all college , careers and the fu - women as the Alice Paul Institute’s first Indigenous chair of the board , continuing ture . Her mission is to develop the narrative of diverse women in suffrage . connections and pathways Dr . Sernak has also between educators and busi - been an avid supporter of ness leaders so they support Joint Base McGuire , Dix , the next generation of leaders Lakehurst as an Honorary and educators . Commander Emeritus and She has spent 20 years board trustee of the volunteering in the commu - Burlington County Mili - nity , from PTO board secretary tary Affairs Committee . At and vice president , to trustee the core of her work is the of the Mount Laurel Public Ed - multicultural history of ucation Fund , currently as president . Dr . Taylor is also a board member for Learn - her father’s Native Ameri - ing Forward NJ , focused on effective professional learning in the classroom . She is can legacy from the president of her children’s nonprofit , Science for Sick Dayz , which builds science Powhatan Renape tribe kits for hospitalized children . and her mother’s African - Dr . Taylor is chair of the Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey’s Am - American and Sicilian an - bassador Committee and on the board of trustees for Perkins Center for the Arts . cestry , helping her appre - She also mentors young professionals as they navigate the workforce . Listening , ciate the similarities and making connections , and sharing ideas and opportunities is essential to Dr . Tay - differences that shape our lor , and how she leads and contributes to her community . perspectives . HALA AL - SHAWAF BARSON KATHLEEN NOONAN Noonan is CEO and Al - Shawaf Barson co - founded technology firm VoIP Doctors president of the Camden Business Telecommunications to address unmet demand for cybersecurity - fo - Coalition . The citywide alliance cused , solutions - driven , efficiency - centered telecommunications services with of care providers , health and fair and transparent billing practices . She is a passionate believer in leveraging social services organizations , technology to empower organizations and their workforces . and community representa - As an avid and career - tives , the coalition aims to de - long volunteer , Shawaf Barson liver better care to individuals is active in community devel - with complex health and social opment . She is engaged in needs by developing and test - several nonprofit boards and ing care management models committees , with a focus on and redesigning systems in the arts , access to behavioral partnership with consumers , health and addiction treat - community members , health ment services , and diverse systems , community - based or - STEM entrepreneurship / career ganizations , government readiness . agencies , payers and more She is chair of the Small with the goal of achieving per - Business Council and an am - son - centered , equitable care . bassador for the Chamber of In 2008 , Noonan co - Commerce of Southern New founded PolicyLab at the Chil - Jersey . She earned certification dren’s Hospital of Philadelphia ( CHOP ) to connect clinical research with real - for VoIP Doctors as a Women's world health policy priorities . She is adjunct faculty in the pediatrics division at Business Enterprise to connect with other organizations that seek leadership , the Perelman School of Medicine and serves as mediator in numerous public - im - learning and mutual growth in diverse entrepreneurship . She is also a Women's pact cases concerning health and human services . Business Enterprise Center EAST NextGen Committee leader and an active mem - Previously , Noonan was : associate director of the Center for High Impact ber of Impact100 South Jersey . Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania ; clinical associate professor at the She is currently gathering support to develop an Art as Therapeutic Practice University of Wisconsin Law School , where she started and directed a govern - community program that can be implemented simply and effectively at low - to - ment law clinic ; and a senior associate and engagement manager with the con - no cost in behavioral health / addiction treatment centers that may or may not al - sulting arm of the Annie E . Casey Foundation . ready have formal art therapy programs . S O U T H J E R S E Y M A G A Z I N E | VO LU M E 1 9 • I S S U E 7 | S O U T H J E R S E Y M A G A Z I N E . C O M | 4 9