Tracy Miller Geary

Vice President | Program Director

Tracy Miller Geary is a short-story writer with a Master’s Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Harvard University.

Moying Li

Treasurer

An award-winning author, Moying Li is an Assistant Portfolio Manager at a Boston-based investment management firm.

Nancy Tupper Ling

Membership Director

Nancy Tupper Ling surrounds herself with books. She is a public librarian, as well as an award-winning children’s author and poet.

Martha Pott

Secretary

Martha Pott loves to read books and especially loves to bind and make unique books. She is on the faculty of Tufts University.

Mary Cronin

Board Member

Mary Cronin is a professor of management at Boston College. She has authored over a dozen books, numerous articles, and online essays about the digital economy and social impact.

Scott Guthery

Board Member

Scott B. Guthery is founder and president at Docent Press. He is a Proprietor and a Docent at the Boston Athenaeum and a member of the Ticknor Society. He writes about the history of science, computing, and mathematics.

Cynthia Levinson

Board Member

Cynthia Levinson writes nonfiction books for young readers about social justice. She has degrees from Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. You can learn more about her and her books at www.cynthialevinson.com.

Peter Reynolds

Board Member

Creativity champion, Peter H. Reynolds, is a NY Times best-selling author & illustrator Published in over 25 languages, Peter's books The Dot, Ish, The Word Collector and Say Something!, among many others, inspire children and “grown up children” with his messages about authentic learning, creativity, bravery, empathy, and courageous self-expression. 

Sara Stanton

Board Member

Sara Stanton is the agency assistant at Storm Literary Agency as well as an aspiring author. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing with a focus in Children’s/YA Literature and a minor in Spanish from Lesley University.

HONORARY DIRECTORS

• Alan Lawson

• Andrew McAleer

• Adrienne Richard

• Helen Marie Casey

• Linda Ty-Casper

Lisa Rogers

Board Member

Lisa Rogers, a former elementary school library teacher and news reporter, is a children's author.

She received the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Award for her picture book biography, 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow."

Kate Farrell

Board Member

Kate first recognized the impact that stories can have on communities in her time as a co-administrator on a Hunger Games Trilogy fansite. She worked in publicity for the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, and went on to work as the director of public relations at fast-growing independent publisher Familius for over three years. 

She received her M.A. from Tufts University in 2022, where she wrote her thesis on the intersection of adolescent identity development and Young Adult media. She is currently a client success analyst at content intelligence company Diesel Labs.

Mia Wenjen

Board Member

Mia Wenjen blogs at PragmaticMom.com. She is also the co-creator and president of Read Your World, celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Her debut picture book, Sumo Joe (Lee and Low, 2019) was selected as a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year. Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World ( Barefoot Books, 2023) is a Junior Library Guild selection and received a starred review from School Library Journal. We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court (Red Comet Press) and Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime (Eifrig Publishing) releases in 2024. Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes was a Kickstarter project recently released by Scholastic. Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist (Red Comet Press) releases in 2025. Follow her @pragmaticmom on social media.