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Raritan Valley Community College’s (RVCC) Board of Trustees welcomed new members Margaret Wolan Sullivan of Somerville and Nidhi Makhija of Bridgewater at its meeting held on October 26. Dr. Sullivan and Mrs. Makhija were both appointed to the RVCC Board by the Somerset County Board of County Commissioners.

Mrs. Makhija currently works as a Chief Digital Strategist at Gestalt Inc., a company that specializes in digital talent transformation. She is a business technology leader with more than 20 years of digital transformation experience. Mrs. Makhija has worked with companies like KPMG, Bearing Point, Deloitte and Siemens, and has advised organizations such as General Motors, SSM Healthcare, Sanofi-Aventis, Siemens Manufacturing and Symbol Technologies on their digital transformation initiatives.

Active in the community, she is a Charter Member of the New Jersey chapter of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and has successfully served on several boards including Emerge America, the New Jersey Chapter and Westrick Music Academy, Princeton, NJ. Through these organizations she has been working towards empowering women and promoting arts and culture among the youth. She is the recipient of the 2019 Eleanor Roosevelt Service Award. Since 2019, she has been serving as an Executive Member of the New Jersey State South Asian Caucus.

An alumna of Columbia University for Digital Business Leadership, Mrs. Makhija received a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Financial Management, from Mumbai University in India.

Margaret Wolan Sullivan, PhD, is a developmental psychologist by training and Professor Emeritus of Nursing and Behavioral Health at Rutgers University. Her career of more than 25 years was focused on understanding and improving the emotional and behavioral development of infants and young children. During her research career, she directed or co-directed several research projects funded by the National Institute for Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and other private foundations while at the Institute for the Study of Child Development and the Department of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, now part of Rutgers.

In 2012, she became Associate Dean of Research at Rutgers Nursing, the position from which she retired in 2018. She currently serves on the board of the Central New Jersey Family Health Consortium, the Heritage Trail Association, and the Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission. An author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and other publications, Dr. Sullivan has continued to use her editorial and grantsmanship skills during her retirement on behalf of local cultural and heritage nonprofits and the municipal committee on which she serves in Somerville.

Dr. Sullivan graduated with honors from Kean College of New Jersey (now known as Kean University) and received her PhD from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Ranked by WalletHub.com, Intelligent.com and Niche.com as the #1 community college in New Jersey, Raritan Valley Community College has been serving as an academic and cultural center for Somerset and Hunterdon County residents for over 50 years. The College has been nationally recognized for its service to the community, environmental stewardship, and commitment to diversity. It is home to a Planetarium, Science Education Institute, and an Honors College for high achieving students.

The College offers more than 90 associate degrees and certificates, as well as career training, small business assistance through the Small Business Development Center, and professional development courses. RVCC is located at 118 Lamington Road in Branchburg, NJ. For further information, visit www.raritanval.edu.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 27, 2021

Media contact: Donna Stolzer, 908-526-1200, ext. 8383

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