Hope Crifo was elected to the GMC board in 2016, and chairs the GMC Endowment Committee. She also serves on the Budget and Finance and Camps committees.

Hope received her BA from Hunter College, City University of New York, and an MA from Yonsei University, in Seoul, Korea. She is employed by Merchants Bank and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Hope volunteers with the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute; Everybody Wins! (a literacy mentoring program); and the National Ski Patrol. She also serves on the board of directors of The Friends of Bolton Valley Nordic and Backcountry and the board of Community Capital of Vermont.

Preferring medium length trails, Hope has completed the Long Trail, the Northville-Placid Trail, the West Coast Trail, and most of the Ozark Highlands Trail. In the winter she primarily backcountry skis at Bolton Valley. Hope lives in Middlesex with her spouse and three largish dogs.