Leadership Team

Cherilyn Parsons

Founder and Executive Director

Samee Roberts

Managing Director

Dora La Flora Czifra

Program Systems and Web Manager

Julia & Jared Drake
Wildbound PR

Publicist

Scott Gelfand

Chief Operations Officer

Dahled Jeffries

Program Manager

Norah Piehl

Director for Literary Programs

Steven Tiffin

Outdoor Fair Producer

Festival Team

Julie Coryell, Wildbound PR

Social Media and Publicity Coordinator

Matthew Felix

Green Room Volunteer Coordinator

Michael Hitchner

Photography Manager

Ogechi Ibeanusi

Volunteer Coordinator

Haley Kleine

Ticketing & Salesforce Assistant

Lou Ann Koehler

Author Travel Coordinator

Aspire Visual

Graphic Designer

WebCherry

Web Designer

UC Berkeley Interns

Kelly Dolores-Contreras, Esther Huang, Emily Mendez, Mo Enriquez Mottley, Anjali Pajjuri, Iris Xu

Program Advisers

Jane Ciabattari

Board member and former President, National Book Critics Circle

Michael Holtmann

Center for the Art of Translation

Laurie R. King

Author

Janis Cooke Newman

Author; Founder and Director of Lit Camp, Highbeam Editorial, and Page Street writers co-working space

Karen Phillips

Executive Director, Words Without Borders

Lise Quintana

Publisher, Zoetic Press

Renée Richard

CEO & Executive Director Cinnamongirl, Inc.

Rachel Richardson

Author, Co-director, Left Margin LIT

Brooke Warner

Publisher, SheWrites Press

Board of Directors

The Bay Area Book Festival is the primary project of the Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in California. FFLL’s Tax ID number is 47-3955286. FFLL is governed by a Board of Directors:

Cherilyn Parsons

Founder and Executive Director

Brooke Warner

Interim Chair

Publisher, SheWrites Press

George Rehm

Treasurer

Investor