The Board of Trustees of People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos announced that Cheyenne Wolf will be the Lawrenceville-based nonprofit’s new executive director, effective Oct. 1.
She replaces Pat Andres, who is retiring after over 30 years.
People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos is dedicated to opening doors to literature for new audiences through oral readings and rigorous discussions of enduring short stories. It began in Spanish in a housing project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1972, when founder Sarah Hirschman organized a group of Puerto Rican women for a Gente y Cuentos pilot series. Today its English and Spanish programs reach youth, adults, and seniors in diverse social service agencies—including residential treatment facilities, prisons, homeless shelters, adult education programs, libraries, senior centers, and alternative schools—on local, regional, and national levels.
“I truly looking forward to advancing the mission Sarah set out on over 45 years ago,” said Wolf, who has served as the organization’s associate director for development and programs since 2014.
Wolf was the board’s unanimous choice for new executive director. They cited her strengths in developing and maintaining relations with community-based organizations, her grant-writing abilities and her data management expertise, which includes maintaining a relationship with the Harvard Humanities and Liberal Arts Assessment Lab , where People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos program results are evaluated.
For more information, visit peopleandstories.org.
