Meet Our Team

Board of Directors

Gara Lamarche (Chair)
Senior Fellow, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, The City College of New York
Sarah Burnes (Secretary)
Literary Agent, The Gernert Company
Jonathan S. Abady
Founding Partner, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP
Jessica Bauman
Artistic Director, New Feet Productions
John Anthony Butler
Chief Operating Officer, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Indira Etwaroo
CEO and Artistic Director, Harlem Stage
Bruce Gottlieb (Co-Vice Chair)
Chief Operating Officer, Flatiron Health
Brad Hebel (Treasurer)
Chief Operating Officer, Columbia University Press
Jonathan Klein
Co-Founder and Former CEO, Getty Images 
Vivien Labaton
Managing Director of Giving & Impact, Three Cairns Group
Josanne Lopez
Owner, LopezTalent Management
Robert Raben
President & Founder, The Raben Group
Nabiha Syed 
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
Diane Wachtell
Executive Director
Laura Walker (Co-Vice Chair)
President, Bennington College
Tina Weiner
Director, NYU Advanced Publishing Institute

Leadership

Diane Wachtell
Executive Director
Mary Beth Jarrad
Publisher
Marc Favreau
Director of Editorial Programs
Natalie Schulmonds
Chief Development Officer
Rosa M. Del Saz
Chief Financial and Administration Officer

Development

Sophia Pechaty
Development Assistant

Publicity & Marketing

Derek Warker
Director of Publicity and Book Marketing 
Josh Zajdman
Publicity Manager

Sales

Sharon Swados
Director of Sales and Subsidiary Rights
Sarah Westbrook
Senior Associate, Inventory & Sales Operations

Editorial

zakia henderson-brown
Senior Editor
Benjamin Woodward
Senior Editor & Serial Rights Coordinator
Rachel Vega-DeCesario
Editor
Tanya Coke
Senior Fellow

Production

Fran Forte
Senior Director of Production
Maury Botton
Senior Managing Editor