Board

Officers

William Gorth, Chair
Retired, Previously President of National Evaluation Systems

Dr. Claudette S. McLinn, Vice Chair
Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature

Nancy Sokolove, Secretary
Curator, The Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation

Gabe M. Wolosky, CPA & LLM, Treasurer
Partner, Praeger Metis

Jennifer Schantz, Executive Director
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

David Bittler
Executive Vice President, Communications & Brand Marketing, Nickelodeon/Paramount Pictures Animation

Bryan Collier
Author and artist

Emily Laird Dresser
Co-chair, Xeric Foundation

Shelley Isaacson
Professor at Simmons University and lecturer at Tufts University

Grace Lin
Author and artist

Ajuan Mance
Author, artist, and professor of Illustration, California College of the Arts

Leonard S. Marcus
Children’s Literature Historian, Author, Critic

Ramsey Naito
President of Nickelodeon Animation and Paramount Animation

Hun Ohm, Esq.
Partner, Fierst Bloomberg Ohm LLP

Waleska Santiago-Centeno
Librarian, Crocker Farm

Teresa Toro
Philanthropist, The Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation

Andrea Davis Pinkney
VP, Executive Editor, Scholastic

Jen Loja
President, Penguin Young Readers

Suzanne Murphy
Publishing consultant

Lynn Waggoner
VP, Content and Curriculum, Disney Publishing Worldwide

Joanna Carey

Jane Goodall

Takeshi Matsumoto

Barbara Carle, Chair Emerita

Vivian Gussin Paley

Jerry Pinkney

Fred Rogers

Maurice Sendak