Alisa Swire ’84
Nominating and Governance Committee Chair and Ad Hoc Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Member
(she/her/hers)
New York
Term of Service: 2024–2028
Additional Vassar Volunteer Experience
Member, AAVC Board, 2023–present; member, AAVC Nominating and Governance Committee, 2023–2024; Vice Chair, Alumnae House Committee, 2022–present and member, 2019–2022; Program Chair, Vassar Club of the Hudson Valley, 2022 and Vice President, 2020–2022; member, Advisory Council for the Consortium on Forced Migration, Vassar College, 2018–2020; Chair, Wisconsin Alumni Admissions Program, 2008–2016 and member, 2006–2008; note-writer/phoner, Class of 1984, 1997–1998.
Professional/Community Experience
Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, Johnson Outdoors Inc., February 2001–December 2016 (ret.). Director, Hudson Valley Credit Union since 2022 and member of the Finance and Compensation & Benefit Committees since 2023; Chair, Governance & Nominating Committee and Board Secretary, 2022–2023; pro bono immigration law attorney, My Sister’s Place, since 2022; trustee and Chair of the Finance Committee, Poughkeepsie Day School 2019–2020; Refugee Resettlement Coordinator, Greater Newburgh Interfaith Council, 2016–2018.
