Staff Directory
Audrey Chapuis
Executive Director
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
Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
Nathalie Cousin
Head of Finance
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 Development
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson
Carolyn Lenske Dubol
Head of Communications and Marketing
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
Celeste Rhoads
Children's & Teens’ Services Manager
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
David Gonçalves
Member Services Manager and Librarian—Collections & Reference
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Fernando Pessoa
Emilie Biggs
Programs Manager
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
Jason Hazard
Education and Reference Librarian and Intern Coordinator
Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
Laurine Lucie
Assistant Librarian - Children's & Teens' Services
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust
Claire Hargreaves
Member Services and Book Award Coordinator
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
Jane Austen
Emma Schumann
Events Assistant
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
John Berger
Maisie Fieschi
Development Associate
Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Carl Phillips
Alfonso Sjogreen
Communications and Marketing Assistant
Josie Hirsch
Member Services Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
Donna Tartt
Yoon Park
Member Services Assistant
A novel worth reading is an education of the heart…It’s a creator of inwardness.
Susan Sontag