Board

Officers

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

Jen Loja, Vice Chair
President, Penguin Young Readers

Andrea Davis Pinkney, Secretary
VP, Executive Editor, Scholastic

Lynn Waggoner, Treasurer
VP, Content and Curriculum, Disney Publishing Worldwide

Bryan Collier
Author and artist

Jane Bayard Curley
Art Historian

Emily Laird Dresser
Co-chair, Xeric Foundation

Grace Lin
Author and artist

Steven Malk
Literary Agent, Writers House LLC

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

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

Suzanne Murphy
President and Publisher, HarperCollins Children’s Books

Ramsey Naito
President of Nickelodeon Animation and Paramount Animation

Hun Ohm, Esq.
Partner, Fierst Bloomberg Ohm LLP

Nancy Sokolove
Art Consultant, Advisor, The Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation

Traci N. Todd
Author and editor

Teresa Toro
Philanthropist, The Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation

Joanna Carey

Jane Goodall

Takeshi Matsumoto

Barbara Carle, Chair Emerita

Vivian Gussin Paley

Jerry Pinkney

Fred Rogers

Maurice Sendak