Collective

Meet the crew! Some of the folks who have maintained Word Up behind the scenes are below. The vast majority of us are residents of Northern Manhattan, and we do this on a 100% volunteer basis. We wouldn’t be able to do all we do if it weren’t for our daily, weekly, monthly, or whenever-we-have-a-moment meetings of comrades—to staff shifts, facilitate participation of all kinds, acquire books and furniture from all over the city, program events, hook up the technology, construct the analog systems, hash it out face to face, bring the comic relief, look to the future and live in the present, get our hands dirty, and administrate like the wind. We come together and do this as a community, to prove it can be done.

And of course, we invite you to JOIN US! If you would like to volunteer at Word Up in any capacity, please email volunteer [at] wordupbooks [dot] com.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU TO

Alison Loeb
Angela
Annie Rudnik
Arielle Frankston-Morris
Armando Batista
Aurora Anaya-Cerda
Becky Fullan
Ben Ehrlich
Ben Schuster
Bob Braswell
Cathlin Goulding
Cindy
Daniela Vasquez
Daniella Gitlin
Darlene Valenzuela
Deborah Cowan
Diana Caba
Diane E. Keeney
Ellie Little
Emily Jacobson
Emmanuel “Dj Boy” Abreu
Eric Vetter
Gabriel Espinal
Gio Andollo
Heather Norton
Inju Keum
Jackii Bagley
Jen Leach
Jennifer Sanchez
Jenny Perdomo
John Clark
John Walthausen
Josh Sanchez
Led Black
Lyana Fernandez
Mabel Colón
Mary Ann Wincorkowski
Matthew Swaye
Milly Rodriguez
Mino Lora
Nina Bolshakova
Patrizia Eakins
Peter Espinal
Peter Martin
Rammer Martínez Sánchez
Reza Salazar
Rick Van Valkenburg
Rishauna Zumberg
Robin Glasser
Romeo Cuba
Ryan Zitofsky
Sandy Jimenez
Sarah Dziedzic
Sarah Watson
Sheldon Mendonca
Stephanie Vasquez
Susan Hannigan
Tali Goldstein
Tom Burgess
Veronica Liu
Will Glass