Festival Staff
Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf
Senior Director of Literary Programs and Festival Director
Nancy Vitale
Senior Producer, Literary Programs and World Voices Festival
Jenn Dees
Program Manager,
Los Angeles
Viviane Eng
Coordinator, Literary Programs and World Voices Festival
Jenny Tibbels
Associate Producer
Literary Programs Staff: Jared Jackson, Program Director, Literary Programs and Emerging Voices; Donica Bettanin, Program Director, Literary Awards
Literary Programs Interns: Angie Gomez, Jasmine Gonzalez, Lili Leitner, Audrey Pettit, Rei Wolfsohn
Festival Staff and Crew:
Production Manager, Dana Krieger
Production Designer, Corrie Beth Shotwell
Venue Producers: Maria Luisa Gambale, Suchan Vodoor, Aktina Stathaki, Yu Chien Liu, Taji Senior
Stage Manager, Erin Koster
Video Production: Collective Agency, Eyes Up Here Productions
Box Office Manager, Adi Orme
Volunteer Coordinator, Lisa Best
Photographer, Beowulf Sheehan
Pen America Leadership and Staff
PEN America Leadership: Suzanne Nossel, Dru Menaker, Praise Apampa, Summer Lopez, Deborah K. Wilson, Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf
PEN America Staff: Alejandro Heredia, Shawnna Jannah, Stanley Mah, Nicholas Perez, Jessica Sun, Veronica Tien, Viktorya Vilk, Hannah Waltz, Rebecca Werner, Sabrina Adams, Matt Bailey, Mery Concepción, Emma Deshpande, Anjali Emsellem, Jonathan Freidman, Aleah Gatto, Andy Gottlieb, Syed Ibrahim, Anthony Johnson, Nadine Farid Johnson, William Johnson, Gia Kagan-Trenchard, Karin Karlekar, Janet Lee, Leila Markosian, Caits Meissner, Franchesca Pierre, Robert Pollock, Rachel Roseman, Polina Sadovskaya, Jazilah Salam, Laura Shroeder, Tejal Shah, Kristen Shahverdian, Jessica Sun, James Tager, Malcolm Tariq, Julie Trébault, Peris Tushabe, Juliette Verlaque, Jeremy C. Young, Matthew Bailey, Kori Davis, Victor Dobrowolski, Andrew Gottlieb, Geraldine Inoa, Vincent Lake, Jeje Mohamed
Communications and Marketing: Debi Goldberg, Gina Chung, Ashley Trawick, Melissa Joskow, Suzanne Trimel, Hannah Lee, Blake Zidell, Adriana Leshko, Moze Halperin
Development: Rachel Pryzgoda, Jessica Mendoza, Mags Chmielarczyk, Ergisa Xhuveli, Christy Wensley, Emily Harting, Ayten Mohammed
Design: Studio la María
PEN America Board of Trustees: Ayad Akhtar, President; Markus Dohle, Executive Vice President; Masha Gessen, Vice President; Tracy Higgins, Vice President; Yvonne Marsh, Treasurer. Trustees: Marie Arana, Peter Barbey, Jennifer Finney Boylan, John Chao, Susan Choi, Bridget Colman, Roxanne Donovan, Lauren Embrey, Patricia Fili-Krushel, Bart Friedman, James Hannaham, Tom Healy, Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, Zachary Karabell, Sean Kelly, Min Jin Lee, Franklin Leonard, Margaret Munzer Loeb, Dinaw Mengestu, Sevil Miyhandar, Wesley Morris, Paul Muldoon, Lynn Nottage, Gregory Pardlo, Michael Pietsch, Marvin S. Putnam, Alix Ritchie, Anya Salama, Richard Sarnoff, Andrew Solomon, Luis Alberto Urrea, Tara Westover, Jamie Wolf. Ex-Officio Trustees: Allison Markin Powell, Fatima Shaik