Staff Directory
Audrey Chapuis
Director
Audrey has worked in libraries for close to twenty years, including posts at Widener Library in the Harvard College Library system and the Pritzker Legal Research Center at the Northwestern University School of Law, where she managed the Access Services Department. She received her Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 2006 and is expected to receive her Executive MBA from HEC Paris in 2022. At the American Library in Paris, she has served as Deputy Director, Assistant Director of Institutional Advancement, and Reference and Collections Librarian.
She is a passionate advocate for digital literacy, intellectual freedom, open access in scholarly publishing, and community building through cultural programming.
When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
Henry Miller
Abigail Altman
Assistant Director
Abigail is responsible for the Library’s collection, including the selection and acquisition of books, periodicals, and virtual offerings such as EBSCO, JSTOR, and OverDrive. She also oversees Member Services and the Library’s Special Collection and archive.
Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
Nathalie Cousin
Head of Finance
Nathalie is in charge of Administration and Finance at the Library
Le cinéaste pense avec les yeux et les oreilles, le peintre avec les mains. La littérature est un refuge. Elle approfondit la vision du monde.
Jean-Luc Godard
Morgan Wurzburger
Head of Fundraising
Morgan manages the Library’s fundraising, sponsorship, and donor events.
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson
Carolyn Lenske Dubol
Head of Communications and Marketing
Carolyn is responsible for marketing and communications and collaborates with community organizations for partnerships.
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.
Mark Helprin
Alice McCrum
Programs Manager
Alice is responsible for all adult programming including Evenings with an Author and Critical Conversations, as well as the Visiting Fellowship and book groups.
Every time serves for the matter that is then born in 't.
William Shakespeare
Celeste Rhoads
Children's & Teens’ Services Manager
Celeste manages the Library’s activities and collections for children and young adults, and is happy to assist you in navigating the juvenile stacks
How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me, I breathe them in and let them out over and over again.
Jacqueline Woodson
Jason Hazard
Assistant Librarian - Children's & Teens' Services
Jason assists in the Children’s and Teens’ Services department with programs and the collection.
Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
David Gonçalves
Member Services Manager and Librarian- Collections & Reference
A trained librarian, David manages the Member Services team and assists with the Collection, Reference, and Archives departments.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Fernando Pessoa
Bojan Kupirović
Librarian- Collections & Reference and Intern Coordinator
Bojan is a librarian working in Reference, Collections, and Member Services.
When one door closes another opens.
Alexander Graham Bell
Claire Hargreaves
Member Services and Book Award Coordinator
Claire supports the Member Services department, creates book displays, and coordinates logistics for the Book Award.
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
Jane Austen
Luis Aldrete Castillo
Member Services Assistant
Luis supports the Member Services team.
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
Herman Melville
Emilie Biggs
Event Assistant
Emilie coordinates logistics for the Library’s evening events.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Gaston Bachelard
Sinamen MaGee
Front of House Assistant
Sinamen supports Member Services and Children’s and Teens’ Services.
Maisie Fieschi
Development Assistant
Maisie assists the Fundraising department with event support and database expertise.
Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Carl Phillips
Alfonso Sjogreen
Communications and Marketing Assistant
Alfonso supports the Communications and Marketing team with graphic design, videography, and photography expertise.
