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 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 Development
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
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
Emilie Biggs
Programs Manager
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
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
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
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
Josie Hirsch
Member Services Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator
Josie supports the Member Services team and coordinates the Library’s volunteer program.
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.
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
