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

Bojan Kupirović
Librarian- Collections & Reference and Intern Coordinator
When one door closes another opens.
Alexander Graham Bell

Jason Hazard
Assistant Librarian - Children's & Teens' Services
Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

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

Josie Hirsch
Member Services Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator


Maisie Fieschi
Development Assistant
Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Carl Phillips

Alfonso Sjogreen
Communications and Marketing Assistant
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.
Fyodor Dostoevsky