Board of Directors

Jody Beck [Denver, CO] is Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and director of the PhD Program at the College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado, Denver.

Lynne Elizabeth [New York, NY] is Director of New Village Press. She has previously served as vice president of Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsibility. (President, New Village Press)

Erica Kohl-Arenas [Davis, CA] is Faculty Director of Imagining America, as well as Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, University of California, Davis. She was previously faculty of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School, NYC.

Jane McGroarty [Brooklyn, NY] is an architect who has previously served as the National and the New York Chapter president of Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR). (Secretary, New Village Press)

Fred Nachbaur [New York, NY] is Director of Fordham University Press, Fordham University. He was previously marketing and sales director at NYU Press and marketing director at Routledge / Taylor & Francis.

Jah Alyse Sayres [New York, NY] is a doctoral student in Environmental Psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. They have worked at New Village Press and the Design Trust for Public Space. Jah previously completed a B.A. in Urban Planning with Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen [Brooklyn, NY] is Inaugural Clement A. Price Chair in Public History and the Humanities at Rutgers University, Newark; founding director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University and co-founder of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. He is also co-founder and senior historian at the Museum of Chinese in America.

Carline Yup [Short Hills, New Jersey] is Director of Finance and Human Resources at The New Press. She was formerly director of Business and Operations at NYU Press. (Treasurer, New Village Press)