Borough Council - 3 Year Term

Cristina C Fowler was elected to Hightstown Borough Council in 2020 and is seeking re-election in the 2023 race.

Cristina is a Senior Edit Media Specialist for the Rutgers University Department of Computer Science where she handles the development and implementation of the marketing, communication, and outreach programs for the department.  She brings 22 year of experience in programming aimed at  sustainability, safety and economic development. 

Outside of her career, she is actively involved in the Hightstown community. From 2018-to 2020, she served as Vice President of Downtown Hightstown. She championed various events and programs that allowed her to collaborate with different boards and commissions including the Historical Society and the Cultural Arts Commission. Through this collaboration, she implemented Restaurant Week, Hightstown Historical Walking Tours, Holiday Window Decorating Contests, and Womanspace’s Communities of Light.

As an elected official, she now serves as Commissioner to the Hightstown Police Department and Council Liaison to The Hightstown Fire Department and Downtown Hightstown.  Cristina also Chairs the Hightstown Memorial Day Parade and the Hightstown Fair.

Cristina is a lifelong resident of the great state of New Jersey,  raising her two teenagers along with her husband Patrick in the heart of central Jersey. 

Borough Council - 3 Year Term

Growing up in Central Jersey, Joe Cicalese has always considered Hightstown a special place. Having worked in nearby East Windsor for 10 years, when Joe and his wife, Jennifer, were looking for a place to settle down and raise a family, they knew that Hightstown was the place to make their home. The blend of the historical village and contemporary suburban neighborhoods combined with a beautiful, scenic downtown is exactly what the Cicalese family was looking for – the walkability and central location to amenities and places to work made it even better. 

Because of Joe’s excitement and interest in the town, he began volunteering for the Hightstown Harvest Fair in 2017, where he served as Treasurer and now serves as Children’s Area Director, coordinating the rides and kid’s entertainment which make the Harvest Fair such a popular event for parents and youngsters alike. Seeing how much a volunteer can do to make an impact in a place like Hightstown, Joe later went on to volunteer on the Borough’s Environmental Commission and the Planning Board, as well as chairing the Complete Streets Committee.

Elected in 2019 to serve the unexpired term of departing Councilman Trish Egan, Joe was elected to a full 3-year term in 2020, and is now seeking re-election. He has worked to prioritize safer streets that are accessible to all modes of transit, building strong relationships with the Mercer County Planning Office and NJDOT and encouraging investment in our town’s aging infrastructure without adding unnecessary expenses to the Borough’s budget.

Borough Council - 1 Year Term

Jeet Gulati is currently General Counsel at Invest Newark, the City of Newark's economic development corporation. Prior to that, Jeet worked as an attorney in government and law firm settings where he specialized in public finance, affordable housing, administrative law and public-private partnerships. Over a decade, Jeet helped with the issuance of over $9 billion of tax-exempt bonds and with financing the construction or rehabilitation of approximately 3,000 units of affordable housing in New York and New Jersey, which had, in the aggregate, total development costs of over $1 billion. 

Jeet re-moved to Hightstown in 2017 with his wife and two children (after a brief stint living in Hightstown in 2009-2010 with his wife pre-children). Though he could not actively participate in municipal service as a Deputy Attorney General, Jeet began focusing on serving the Hightstown community as soon as he left the AG's office in late 2019. Jeet has been a member of the Hightstown Harvest Fair Committee and the Hightstown Democratic Club; and Jeet served as a Commissioner on the Board of the Hightstown Housing Authority from January 2020 until February 2023, which is when he was appointed to fill an unexpired term on the Borough Council, where he currently serves as Council Liaison to the Housing Authority and to the Finance Department.