About VABook!

Volunteer Committees

The Virginia Festival of the Book is an annual program produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) in cooperation with community organizations. Consistent with our mission to promote literacy and reading through an annual celebration of books, festival programs are open to the public, and most are free of charge. Almost every aspect of VABook! is organized and generated by volunteer committees (listed below) who generously contribute their time and energy to this annual celebration of books and reading.

If you'd like to become a VaBook! volunteer, just fill out our online form.

Steering Committee

Jaime Avanti
Althea W. Brooks
Susan Coleman
Paul Collinge
Tom Dowd
William L. Frank
Robert S. Friedman
Jane R. Goodman
John Halliday
Sheryl B. Hayes
Deborah Hocutt
Mary Jane King
Evette Lamka
Judy Lesiak
Mayapriya Long
Lydia W. Peale
K. K. Pearson
Leah Puryear
Wayne D. Terwilliger
Tamyra Turner
Robert C. Vaughan, III
Hilda Ward

Adult Program Committee

Dawn Anderson
H. Avery Chenoweth
Susan Coleman
Paul Collinge
Nancy Damon
Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Janis M. Jaquith
Karen Kevorkian
Kevin McFadden
Katherine McNamara
Katherine Neville
Caroline Preston
Steven H. Rubin
Razel Solow
Bella Stander
Wayne D. Terwilliger
Tamyra Turner
Dahven White Doctor
Henry Wiencek

Advisory Program Committee

Jaime Avanti
Peggy J. Baggett
Josef Beery
Terry Belanger
Judy Bias
Lu Bolen
Nancy E. Brockman
David E. Brown
Martin Burks, III
Blake Caravati
Robert Chapel
Ishmail Conway
Ayana Conway
Virginia Daugherty
Rhoda Dreyfus
Johanna R. Drucker
Chris Eure
Shelby Fischer
George P. Garrett
Michael Green
Bryan Hagen
Kendra Y. Hamilton
Proal Heartwell
Jo Ann Hofheimer
Timothy Hulbert
Angell Husted
Katherine L. Imhoff
Maurice Jones
Penelope Kaiserlian
Jonathan A. Kates
Joan Kindig
Kathryn Knisley
Anna L. Lawson
Charles E. Lewis III
Peppy Linden
Kevin Lynch
Michael A. Mallory
Lawrence McConnell
Kristin Moses
Lucinda Munger-Kress
Katherine Neville
Nancy K. O'Brien
Lydia W. Peale
Michael F. Plunkett
Meredith Richards
Bob Sack
George W. Sampson
Rob Schilling
Martha J. Sims
Lisa Russ Spaar
Kitty C. Stroud
Susan E. Thomas
Sally Thomas
Peter Thompson
Aubrey V. Watts
Anda L. Webb
Roger Williams

Busines Advisory Committee

Robin T. Amato
Larry Banner
Althea W. Brooks
Debbie Fisher
Sue Friedman
Sheryl B. Hayes
Allyson Johns
Dolores Johnson
Kevin J. McFadden
Susan McGinnis
Judy Mueller
Matt Perry
Gary W. Taylor
Robert C. Vaughan III
Iris Luck
Amy Lambert
Beth Duffy
Hal Hurka

Crime Wave Committee

Cordelia Biddle
Nancy Damon
Deborah J. Dillon
Willetta L. Heising
Tom Nolan
Susan Seidler
Andrew B. Straka
Marcia Talley
Dave Taylor
Steve Zettler

Publishing Day Committee

Robert S. Friedman
Ross Howell
Mayapriya Long
Kevin McFadden
Bella Stander
Susan R. Williamson
Mike Zbailey

Volunteer Committee

John and Catherine Campagnino
Janet Cheeseman
Nancy Damon
Tish Ritchie Eppink
Peg Gilliland
Evette Lamka
Maggie Maranto
Kim and Wiley Martin
Mary Miller
Liza Millett
Nancy O’Brien
K.K. Pearson
Bob Reynolds
Sigrid Sweitzer

Youth and Family Committee

Jennifer Bryerton
Timothy Carrier
Susan Coleman
Ayana Conway
Nancy G. Cook
Pat Cunningham
Nancy Damon
Jamie Endahl
Beverly Fahey
Proal Heartwell
Jolee Nail Horn
Sibley Johns
Peter Jones
Joan Kindig
Carolyn Lawlor
Pat Marcus
Susan Midland
Judy Rood
Cyndra Van Clief
Doris Vandermeulen
Jean Osborne Wilhelm
Nura Yingling

Office Assistance

Rachel Bradshaw
Janet Cheeseman
Palmer Curdts
Marilyn Fantino
Phillip Green
Chakana Mentore
Judy Moody
Diane Oaks
Jeanne Palin
Marion Rothman
Tori Talbot

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