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  Karla Vargas-Kennedy 

  Director of Enrollment Management and Marketing

  540.687.4341

  karla.vargas@foxcroft.org

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  Karla Vargas joins the Admission Office as Director of Enrollment Management. Karla brings to the role extensive expertise and experience in admission, financial aid, and marketing for independent schools, boarding schools and undergraduate, graduate, and online programs.
  
  

  Karla began her career in education at Mercersburg Academy, where she taught Spanish, lived in a dorm, and served as Director of the ESLPlus Summer Language Enrichment Program. From there, she moved into graduate school enrollment, serving as Director of Financial Aid at Cornell Law School and then at the University of Chicago Law School. She broadened her experience while Assistant Vice President of Traditional Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, TX, before serving as Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at Green Mountain College in Poultney, VT.

  
  Most recently, Karla was Director of Enrollment and Financial Aid at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Ridgeland, MS, where she oversaw the recruitment and retention of 1,150 students in pre-K3 through 12th grade.
  
  

  Karla earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and an M.A. in Educational Leadership from Western New Mexico University. Additionally, she holds a Certificate in Marketing from Cornell University.
  
  Karla, her husband, Rusty, nephew, Joaquin, and her three dogs live on campus.

• Lauren Lewis 

  Senior Associate Director of Enrollment and Director of Inclusion and Diversity

  lauren.lewis@foxcroft.org

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  No stranger to boarding schools, Lauren comes to us from St. James School in Hagerstown, MD, where she was Senior Director of Enrollment Management and a dorm parent. She has also served as the Director of Admission and Financial Aid at the Tatnall School in Wilmington, DE, and Associate Director of Admission and Student of Color Recruitment at Tabor Academy in Marion, MA. Lauren holds a B.S. in Sociology from Towson University and a Master of Social Work from Barry University. In her role as Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Foxcroft, Lauren will work with the Head of School to provide strategic leadership in the area of diversity and inclusion based on the School’s mission, philosophy, and strategic priorities. She will also support the School’s efforts to recruit and retain a diverse student body and faculty and to foster an inclusive community that values and celebrates all members. Lauren enjoys traveling and attending sporting events and dance recitals.
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  Ken LaBate 

  Director of Admission

  ken.labate@foxcroft.org

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  Ken joins the Enrollment Team to oversee the recruitment and admission functions of the department under Karla Vargas’s leadership. Ken graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S. in Sports Management. He most recently served as Associate Director for University Recruitment at Husson University in Bangor, ME. He has also held the position of Vice President for Student Recruitment and Admissions at College of St. Joseph in Rutland, VT. A fun fact is that Ken is fluent in Japanese!
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  Katie Turner 

  Admission and Enrollment Coordinator

  540.687.4343

  katie.turner@foxcroft.org

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  Katie is a native of Loudoun County, having grown up in Leesburg. After her undergraduate years at University of Virginia, she traveled through Europe and Australia, with stops in Fiji and New Zealand, for about a year before starting a career in hospitality in Washington, DC, working closely with the World Bank and the Kennedy Center. Always eager to learn, Katie left D.C. and started working as a manager for a furniture company; it drove her crazy that her mother knew the difference between a Chippendale leg and a Federal leg and different styles of a Windsor chair but she did not.
  
  

  As her 30th birthday approached, Katie decided that she missed the country life so she moved to Purcellville and began working at Loudoun Country Day School while obtaining her master's in Education at Marymount University. After graduate school, Katie got a position in educational publishing sales, selling to and training educators in schools all over Northern Virginia and Maryland — including several teachers who had taught her in elementary school!
  
  

  Somewhere during all of this activity, Katie married a handsome young man from Williamsburg named Kameron, and they moved to Middleburg where they live with their two daughters, Hays (Foxcroft Class of 2021) and Winley. For many years Katie was a stay-at-home mother, but with a chronic volunteering condition. Eventually, she began working at the Middleburg Community Center, where she held a variety of positions. In 2011, Katie joined the Foxcroft family as the Co-Director of fundays@foxcroft Summer Camps. When the decision to close the camps was made several years later, Katie went to work in the College Counseling Office before joing the Admission team.