Hope Layton Furth of White Plains, New York, is a graduate of Radcliffe and Barnard Colleges and has done graduate work at Columbia University. She is the former long-time chair of the Mathematics Department at Rye Country Day School and former head of the school’s Academic Affairs Committee. She is currently a Trustee and rotating chair of the White Plains Public Library, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees and treasurer of the Westchester Country Library System. She is also a donor and Trustee of the Furth Family Foundation and the Hope L. and John L. Furth Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund of New York along with her husband John, a principal at Klingenstein, Fields & Co. LLC in New York.