The State Senate needs to vote to confirm Amy Towers. Here is a list of Senators for NJ. Please write to your Senator if you think that Amy Towers should be voted to be a member of the Board of Governors.
Link to find your State Senator:
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/districtnumbers.asp#30
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/municipalities.asp
Sample letter (most info copied from her Wikipedia page):
Dear Senator __________,
I am writing to you in support of the nomination of Amy Tower to the Rutgers Board of Governors. Despite the fact that some in the Rutgers University faculty union do not support the nomination of Ms. Towers because she has donated $5 million to Rutgers Athletics, this is just one small facet of her background that should be considered. Ms. Towers will bring an excellent and diverse perspective to the Board. Ms. Towers has already been on several non-profit boards and serves on the Rutgers Board of Overseers, which governs the university’s fundraising foundation.
In 2006, Ms. Towers was awarded UNICEF’s Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award for her work in conflict zones in Niger, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Darfur, Somalia, and Zimbabwe. In 2007, Ms. Towers founded the Nduna Foundation to provide aid to children in the developing world with an emphasis on food security, HIV/AIDS, education, conservation, and wildlife restoration in Africa. In 2008, Ms. Towers donated $2 million to Teach for America to recruit teachers. In 2010, Ms. Towers donated $1 million to establish the Zimbabwe Collaborative Centre for Operational Research and Evaluation, a policy research and data hub in Zimbabwe created in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund that provides information to charitable organizations looking to provide assistance in Zimbabwe. In 2010, Ms. Towers was selected to serve a five-year term on the board of directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation.
Ms. Towers also serves as a Member of the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, as board member of Human Rights Watch, The Elders, WITNESS, The U.S. Fund for UNICEF, The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Millennium Promise, KIPP Academy Charter Schools, The Allen-Stevenson School, and Teach for All. She is also actively involved with the Robin Hood Foundation, the International Medical Corps, and The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Ms. Towers is currently the board chair of Mana Nutrition, a producer of RUTF in Fitzgerald, GA.
I wholeheartedly support Ms. Towers' nomination to the Rutgers Board of Governors.
Sincerely,
Link to find your State Senator:
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/districtnumbers.asp#30
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/municipalities.asp
Sample letter (most info copied from her Wikipedia page):
Dear Senator __________,
I am writing to you in support of the nomination of Amy Tower to the Rutgers Board of Governors. Despite the fact that some in the Rutgers University faculty union do not support the nomination of Ms. Towers because she has donated $5 million to Rutgers Athletics, this is just one small facet of her background that should be considered. Ms. Towers will bring an excellent and diverse perspective to the Board. Ms. Towers has already been on several non-profit boards and serves on the Rutgers Board of Overseers, which governs the university’s fundraising foundation.
In 2006, Ms. Towers was awarded UNICEF’s Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award for her work in conflict zones in Niger, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Darfur, Somalia, and Zimbabwe. In 2007, Ms. Towers founded the Nduna Foundation to provide aid to children in the developing world with an emphasis on food security, HIV/AIDS, education, conservation, and wildlife restoration in Africa. In 2008, Ms. Towers donated $2 million to Teach for America to recruit teachers. In 2010, Ms. Towers donated $1 million to establish the Zimbabwe Collaborative Centre for Operational Research and Evaluation, a policy research and data hub in Zimbabwe created in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund that provides information to charitable organizations looking to provide assistance in Zimbabwe. In 2010, Ms. Towers was selected to serve a five-year term on the board of directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation.
Ms. Towers also serves as a Member of the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, as board member of Human Rights Watch, The Elders, WITNESS, The U.S. Fund for UNICEF, The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Millennium Promise, KIPP Academy Charter Schools, The Allen-Stevenson School, and Teach for All. She is also actively involved with the Robin Hood Foundation, the International Medical Corps, and The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Ms. Towers is currently the board chair of Mana Nutrition, a producer of RUTF in Fitzgerald, GA.
I wholeheartedly support Ms. Towers' nomination to the Rutgers Board of Governors.
Sincerely,
