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
Members
Ines Aslan
Marketing & Communications Consultant
David Bittler
Executive Vice President, Communications & Brand Marketing, Nickelodeon/Paramount Pictures Animation
Sophie Blackall
Author & artist; Founder of Milkwood, a retreat for the children’s book community
Emily Laird Dresser
Co-chair, Xeric Foundation
Drew Ellis
Head of Institutional Partnerships for Mercer Advisors
Tyrone M. Fripp
Founder and Principal of Talent Ascent, a coaching and Human Resources consulting practice, and Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Liberty Bank
Shelley Isaacson
Professor at Simmons University and lecturer at Tufts University
Ajuan Mance
Author, artist, and professor of Illustration, California College of the Arts
Leonard S. Marcus
Children’s Literature Historian, Author, Critic
Juana Martinez-Neal
Author & Illustrator
Ramsey Naito
President of Nickelodeon Animation and Paramount Animation
Hun Ohm, Esq.
Partner, Fierst Bloomberg Ohm LLP
Waleska Santiago-Centeno
Librarian, Crocker Farm
Karin Stamy
General Counsel for the North Carolina Railroad
Namrata Tripathi
President and Publisher at Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers
Trustee Emeriti Advisory Council
Sarah Buttenwieser
Rolf Carle
H. Nichols B. Clark
Kate Karcher Clark
Leslie Cooper
Pat Cummings
Jane Bayard Curley
Tony DiTerlizzi
Robert L. Forbes
Kate Geis
Lisa Holton
Luis-Orlando Isaza
Jennifer Loja
Chris Loker
Barbara McClintock
Cathryn M. Mercier
Josalyn Moran
Barry Moser
Suzanne Murphy
Tina Peel
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Gregory Prince
Teresa Toro
Lynn Waggoner
Doug Whiteman
Honorary Trustees
Joanna Carey
Jane Goodall
Takeshi Matsumoto
In Memoriam
Barbara Carle, Chair Emerita
Vivian Gussin Paley
Jerry Pinkney
Fred Rogers
Maurice Sendak