Novak is a veteran Dartmouth volunteer leader whose work is focused on growing Dartmouth's global community. She currently serves as co-chair of the Call to Lead Campaign regional committee for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and helped lead the successful effort to extend need-blind admissions to all students, including international students, in January 2022. Prior to that, she served as admissions district enrollment director for the United Kingdom, one of Dartmouth's largest admissions markets outside the U.S.
An active community volunteer, Novak is president emeritus of Women Running the World, an organization dedicated to empowering women through exercise, and has held numerous volunteer roles at the American School in London.
She previously worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and in management consulting at the Boston Consulting Group.
As a volunteer for Dartmouth, Novak has championed initiatives that bring generations of alumnae together. She is a founding member of the Centennial Circle of Alumnae, an early proponent of the alumnae initiative to restore Dartmouth Hall for Dartmouth's 250th anniversary, and a mentor of first-generation students.
As an undergraduate, she was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and served as an intern in the Office of the President during the tenure of President James Freedman.
Novak is a dual citizen of the U.S. and the United Kingdom. She and her husband live in London and have two children. She is a year-round outdoor swimmer, a tournament poker player, and a long-term student of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. In addition to her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in history, she holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Palmer Scholar.