Staff Directory
Audrey Chapuis
Executive Director
Audrey brings over twenty years of experience in nonprofits and higher education. Before joining the American Library in 2015, she held positions at Widener Library in the Harvard College Library system and the Pritzker Legal Research Center at Northwestern University School of Law, where she managed the Access Services department. She received a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2006 and an Executive MBA from HEC Paris in 2022. Audrey 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.
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
Maisie Fieschi
Chief of Staff
Maisie supports the Executive Director and staff by coordinating strategic and development initiatives, fundraising, streamlining operations, and enhancing cross-departmental collaboration.
Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Carl Phillips
Erica Johnson
Office and Operations Coordinator
Erica supports the Executive office with daily operations and strategy.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. Imagining fully other people's lives may be, paradoxically, a way for us to know ourselves better.
Joyce Carol Oates
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
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
Claire Hargreaves
Library Engagement and Book Award Coordinator
Claire supports the Member Services and Collections departments, curates 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
Laurine Lucie
Assistant Librarian - Children's & Teens' Services
Laurine assists in the Children’s and Teens’ Services department with programs and the collection.
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
Emma Schumann
Cultural Programs Coordinator
Emma supports the Programs, Development, and Communications and Marketing teams with event planning, promotion, and logistics.
What will be left of us in this world? Sentences instead of voices, sentences instead of photographs.
Silvina Ocampo
Alfonso Sjogreen
Communications and Marketing Assistant
Alfonso supports the Communications team with graphic design, videography, photography, and handles A/V for evening events.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C.S. Lewis
Josie Hirsch
Member Services, Intern & Volunteer Coordinator
Josie supports the Member Services team and coordinates the Library’s internship and volunteer programs.
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
Donna Tartt
Yoon Park
Membership Development Assistant
Yoon supports the Member Services and Development teams.
A novel worth reading is an education of the heart…It’s a creator of inwardness.
Susan Sontag
Eve Bennett
Member Services Assistant
Eve supports the Member Services team.
People flock in...in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered able to answer...Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.
Terry Pratchett
Colette Dia
Member Services Assistant
Colette supports the Member Services team.
Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve.
Nicola Yoon
Riley Chabot
Fundraising Development Assistant
Riley supports the Development team.
The greatest proof of culture is the knowledge of what to leave behind.
T.S. Eliot
Nathan Loceff
Member Services Assistant
Nathan supports the Member Services team.
Through the act of writing, I was able to find out what I knew ... what I was able to know, and where the limits of knowing lay.
Teju Cole
