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Administration

	Helene Atwan, Director: Helene has been director at Beacon since 1995.
	Tom Hallock, Associate Publisher: Tom joined Beacon in 1996 after holding executive positions in sales and marketing at Farrar Straus and Giroux, Simon and Schuster and Aperture. He is a former bookseller and was the manager and buyer for the Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA. Follow him on Twitter at @TomHallock.
	Maya Fernandez, Assistant to the Director: Maya Fernandez joined Beacon Press in 2016 as the Assistant to the Director. Originally from Medford, MA, she earned a Bachelor of Arts from American University in Washington, D.C., where she studied Literature, Creative Writing, and Sociology.

Editorial

	Helene Atwan, Director: Helene has been director at Beacon since 1995. She previously held positions at Random House, Knopf, Viking, FSG, and Pocket Books. She acquires in narrative nonfiction, memoir, and general nonfiction, with a special interest in public health and legal issues. Titles include: Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate by Nancy Gertner White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by Carl Elliott Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health by Dr. Gil Welch The Tyranny of the Meritocracy by Lani Guinier Fugitive Days and Public Enemy by Bill Ayers What Doctors Feel by Dr. Danielle Ofri
	Gayatri Patnaik, Editorial Director: Gayatri, previously an editor at both Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge, has been at Beacon Press nearly fifteen years and has published authors including Cornel West, Kate Bornstein, Marcus Rediker and Mary Frances Berry. She acquires in US History, with a focus on African American History and race/ethnicity/immigration, and began Beacon’s “ReVisioning American History” series. Gayatri occasionally signs memoir, began Beacon’s LGBTQ series, “Queer Action/Queer Ideas,” (edited with Michael Bronski) and developed books in “The King Legacy,” with Joanna Green, in a series about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her acquisitions include: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis, winner of the 2014 NAACP Image Award An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (part of the “ReVisioning American History” series) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award Read the Publishers Weekly profile on Gayatri by Judith Rosen. Follow her on Twitter at @gpatnaik1.
	Amy Caldwell, Executive Editor: Amy Caldwell has been at Beacon Press since 1995. She acquires in religion, with a special emphasis on interfaith issues; the relation between politics, culture, and religion; and how Americans live out their religious beliefs. She also acquires in science and society, as well as narrative nonfiction/memoir. Titles include: Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice and the Promise of America and Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy’s Club by Eileen Pollack The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America by Ann Neumann The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan by Rafia Zakaria Do It Anyway by Courtney Martin The New Wild and When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce Back to Normal: Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder by Enrico Gnaulati The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan Metzl The Tricky Part and All the Rage by Martin Moran
	Rakia A. Clark, Senior Editor: Rakia joined Beacon Press in May 2015 and works from New York City. She is especially interested in books that examine social justice issues through a pop culture lens. She acquires mainly in media, technology, sports, criminal justice, race, class, narrative nonfiction and biography/memoir. Her previous editorial posts include HarperCollins, Viking Penguin, and Kensington Publishing Corp. Recent acquisitions: Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America by Stacey Patton Strung Up: The Lynching of Black Children in America, 1880-1968 by Stacey Patton War Games: Sports, Patriotism, and Protest in Post 9/11 America by Howard Bryant The Last Shackle: Harm, Healing and Redemption in Wrongful Conviction Cases by Lara Bazelon From Memes to Movements: The Memes, Pun and Selfies Behind the World’s Most Powerful Social Movements, from #BlackLivesMatter to the #UmbrellaMovement by An Xiao Mina A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks by Angela Jackson Bootstrapping: How Millennials Are Building the New Innovation Economy by S. Craig Watkins Read Kirkus Reviews’s Q&A with Rakia.
	Joanna Green, Senior Editor: Joanna Green joined Beacon in 2005 and previously worked for New Moon Magazine. She acquires narrative nonfiction with an emphasis on social justice in the areas of economic justice, labor and business, law and society, disability, sports, and activism. She also develops YA editions of books in the “ReVisioning American History” series. Titles include: Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City by Steve Early Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement by Jonathan Rosenblum Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists by Lyn Mikel Brown Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love by Fran Hawthorne Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up by Michael Bérubé A Disability History of the United by Kim E. Nielsen Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights by Lennard Davis Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX by Ginny Gilder
	Rachael Marks, Editor: Rachael Marks joined Beacon Press in 2010 and acquires in education, with a special interest in educational equality and democracy; cultural environments of urban, suburban, and rural educational settings; issues of difference, diversity, social justice, and alliance building. Titles include: New York Times best seller For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin
	Will Myers, Editor: Will Myers joined Beacon Press in 2010. He acquires for the nature and environment list, with a particular interest in books on environmental justice and activism, climate change, and the intersection of race, class, and the environment. Titles include: The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear by the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice by Wen Stephenson Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution by Marcus Eriksen
	Melissa Nasson, Contracts Director, Acquisitions Editor: Melissa Nasson joined Beacon Press after finishing her law degree and interning at the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth literary agency and The Perseus Books Group. She is interested in acquiring books on a range of topics, including law and society and women’s issues.
	Ayla Zuraw-Friedland, Editorial Assistant: Ayla Zuraw-Friedland joined Beacon in 2015 as assistant to senior editors Joanna Green, Jill Petty, and Rakia Clark. Originally from Mansfield Center, CT, she is a graduate of Connecticut College where she studied Literatures in English and Creative Writing and served as Editor of the college newspaper.
	Molly Velazquez-Brown, Editorial Assistant: Molly joined Beacon in 2017 as an assistant to Editorial Director, Gayatri Patnaik and Executive Editor, Amy Caldwell. Originally from Cambridge, MA, she earned her Bachelors of Arts degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Communications as well as Psychology from Syracuse University.

Marketing

	Sanj Kharbanda, Director of Sales and Marketing
	Alyssa Hassan, Senior Marketing Manager: Alyssa joined Beacon in 2006 after five years at South End Press. She has also worked with Z Magazine, Dollars and Sense, and other progressive non-profit organizations on book design and web-based outreach. She is a graduate of Cornell University. Follow her on Twitter at @alyssahassan.
	Emily Powers, Associate Marketing Manager: Emily joined Beacon in 2016 after three years at Cornell University Press. Previously, she worked as an intern at the UN Refugee Agency and Harvard Common Press. She is a graduate of Le Moyne College. Follow her on Twitter at @emilykpowers.
	Yaisha Cordero-Rivera, Sales Assistant: Yaisha Cordero-Rivera joined Beacon Press in 2017 after graduating from Emerson College with a master’s degree in Publishing and Writing. Originally from Puerto Rico, Yaisha is selling books, making moves, and still acclimating to the unforgiving New England winter. Follow her on Twitter at @yliz_pub.
	Christian Coleman, Digital Marketing Associate: Before joining Beacon in 2015, Christian worked in writing, copy editing, and marketing positions at Sustainable Silicon Valley and Trikone. He graduated from Boston College and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Follow him on Twitter at @coleman_II.
	Kennia Joseph, Assistant to the Associate Publisher

Publicity

	Pamela MacColl, Director of Communications: Prior to joining Beacon in 1999, Pam held posts at Random House, New American Library, Scribner's, and Macmillan. She served as a publicity consultant to St. Martin's Press, Random House, Simon and Schuster, and Bernie Illson Public Relations.
	Caitlin Meyer, Publicity Manager: Caitlin worked at Facing History and Ourselves as Public Relations and Communications Manager before joining Beacon in 2008. She is a graduate of Emerson College.
	Nicholas DiSabatino, Publicist: Nicholas DiSabatino joined Beacon Press in the fall of 2012 in the Marketing Department. He has since moved from on from Publicity Assistant to Associate Publicist to Publicist in the Publicity Department. He has an MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College and a BA in English and LGBT Studies from Kent State University. Originally from Ohio, Nicholas lives with his husband Josh and their fat black cat Roxie in Somerville, MA. He enjoys watching Katharine Hepburn movies, reading X-Men comics, collecting antiquarian editions of Edith Wharton novels, and arguing politics with his in-laws. You can find him on Twitter at @NDiSabat.
	Perpetua Charles, Publicity Assistant: Perpetua Charles joined Beacon Press in June 2015. She is a graduate of Florida Southern College and earned her MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College 2015.

Production

	Marcy Barnes, Production Director: Prior to joining Beacon in 2011, Marcy held posts at Harvard Education Publishing Group, Harvard Business School Publishing, Elsevier Science, and Addison-Wesley Professional. She has an MA in Information and Library Science from Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and a BA in English and Sociology from the University of Leeds (UK).
	Susan Lumenello, Managing Editor
	Beth Collins, Production Manager
	Daniel Barks, Reprint and Digital Production Manager: Daniel joined Beacon in 2013 with extensive indie bookstore background having worked in management at both Left Bank Books in St Louis and Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.

Design

	Bob Kosturko, Creative Director
	Louis Roe, Designer

Business

	Clifford Manko, Chief Financial Officer
	Greg Kanter, Director of Business Operations
	Jill Dougan, Business Finance Associate