Cindy Brawley

Chair

Cindy moved to Colorado at the age of four and graduated from The University of Colorado with a BA in Sociology and BS in Nursing. She has practiced across the country for sixteen years in the areas of Cardiology, Orthopedics and Oncology. She currently works part time at The University of Colorado Hospital as an Outpatient Nurse. Cindy and her husband, Bob, have three children who attend BFA and they feel so grateful to a part of the school’s wonderful community. When not busy with work, school and the kids’ activities, the family loves to ski, camp and travel.

Mette Castor

Vice-Chair

Mette was born raised just outside Houston, Texas and attended Louisiana Tech University where she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with minors in Biology and Chemistry.  She was crowned Miss Louisiana 1997 and after placing in the Top Ten at Miss America she traveled throughout Louisiana and the South speaking to thousands of students about the Character Counts! program and was instrumental in legislation requiring all schools in Louisiana to implement character education.  She worked for GlaxoSmithKline and Icos Biotech before becoming a full-time mom.  She and her husband Bill moved to Colorado in 2009 and in 2011 their oldest son was fortunate to be in the first class of BFA kindergarteners.  With their youngest in kindergarten this year, all three of their boys are now all together at BFA.

Lisa Travis Fischer

DAC Liaison

Lisa C. Travis Fischer is a “founding family” of BFA. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in English Literature from Trinity University. She earned a J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law and was a visiting law student at the University Of Denver Sturm College Of Law. Lisa has spent over 20 years as an attorney in the legal publishing business for the Colorado Bar Association CLE and Bradford Publishing. As a member of the Trust and Estate Section of the Colorado Bar Association, she served as co‐chairperson of the Orange Book Forms Committee for multiple years and was a co‐chairperson of the Statutory Revisions Sub‐Committee on Disposition of Last Remains, 2002‐2003.

As a BFA volunteer, Lisa was an assistant room parent in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015; the co-committee manager for PTO Spirit Wear for 2014-2015; the PTO Fundraising Coordinator for 2015-2016; and, the PTO co-Secretary for 2016-2018. Lisa and her husband, Dave, have two children at BFA, Nicholas and Jennifer. Lisa is currently the DAC liaison to the BFA SAC.

Courtney Jurbala

Board Liaison

Courtney Jurbala is Secretary of the BFA Board. She holds Bachelors in both Accounting and Economics from Hartwick College in New York.  Ms. Jurbala also received her MBA from the University of Colorado. Ms. Jurbala has recently become the General Manager of Research Tissue and Cells for a subsidiary of AlloSource, a non-profit tissue bank, out of Centennial, Colorado. Prior to this change, she spent her entire career in Finance for several industries. Ms. Jurbala currently serves as the Board liaison for the School Accountability Committee (SAC).

Josh Rau

Administrator/Principal's Representative

Elaine Tunkel

Community Member

Woody Haynes

Parent Member at Large

Candace McGinty

Teacher Representative

Candace has been teaching first grade at Ben Franklin Academy for years, and before that had been substituting at Ben Franklin Academy since the school opened. She is now teaching our sweet Kindergarten students in the afternoon. She truly loves the students and families at BFA. She is heavily invested in Core Knowledge curriculum, given that her own two children attended a Core Knowledge charter school.