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

Bryan Collier
Author and artist

Emily Laird Dresser
Co-chair, Xeric Foundation

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

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 

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