Bookstock Team

The Bookstock 2026 Leadership Team

 
 
Robin Gaby Fisher, Director of Master Classes

Robin is a New York Times bestselling author of twelve non-fiction books; “Unmasked,” with Paul Holes, debuted as No. 3 on the New York Times bestseller list, while others have been featured in The New York Times, People magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, and other print, television, and radio channels. In her previous role as a newspaper journalist, she was awarded with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard’s Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers, and was twice a finalist and was a co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. Robin writes about ordinary people with extraordinary stories. She recently left her position as director of the journalism program at Rutgers University to write full time in Vermont, where she lives with her husband, Loren Fisher, a fine art photographer and gallery owner, and their Bernese Mountain Dog, Pudge.

Bea Jennings, Marketing Manager
Bea, an Upper Valley native, has been a resident of Woodstock since 2018. She returned to the area after finishing college in 2015 and worked as a legal assistant before starting in finance at Dartmouth College.

Karli Hagedorn – Children’s Program

Kari Meutsch* – Author Program
Kari worked in bookstores in four different states before moving to Bridgewater in 2017 where she and her husband took over ownership of the Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, Vermont.  She volunteers with local nonprofits, including as a trustee with the Ottauquechee Health Foundation and with the Lucy Mackenzie Humane Society, in addition to fundraising for local causes through the Yankee Bookshop.
 

Julie Moncton* – Book Sale/Board Treasurer
Julie moved to Woodstock from California in 2022. She worked as an engineer in Silicon Valley until she started a second career in the book industry. She has held positions in the publishing world as a volunteer, employee, and bookstore owner. Julie served as the co-excutive director of Bookstock 2025, and will be the Used Books Sale Director for Bookstock 2026.

Lee Moncton – Webmaster, Ticketing
Lee moved to Woodstock from California in 2022.
 

Angela Moore, Printed Materials
Angela’s career includes creating best-selling tabletop collections for brands such as Ralph Lauren and Tiffany & Co, along with her own popular collection of Angela Moore jewelry, fashion and home accents. A lover of retail in all its iterations, Angela’s experience spans both company-owned and publicly traded retail locations across the country. When she’s not spending time on her AG Moore Building & Renovation projects in Woodstock and Quechee, you can find her teaching Pilates at the Woodstock Inn.

Priscilla Painton* – Author Program/Vice-Chair
Priscilla came to publishing in 2008 after twenty-eight years as a journalist. Currently Editor-in-Chief at Simon & Schuster, she has published books by Hillary Rodham Clinton (What Happened, The Book of Gutsy Women also with Chelsea Clinton) and John Bolton (The Room Where It Happened); books that dig deep into big corporations (Kochland by Christopher Leonard), Supreme Court showdowns (Supreme Ambition by Ruth Marcus), Russian treachery (Red Notice by Bill Browder), class in America (Janesville by Amy Goldstein), and even First Ladies, including Michelle (about Michelle Obama) by Liza Mundy, The Art of Her Deal (about Melania Trump) by Mary Jordan, and The Triumph of Nancy Reagan by Karen Tumulty. Priscilla has resided in Woodstock since 2020 and she is a member of the board of the Norman Williams Library.

Dan Peirce, Director of Development
Dan spent 20+ years in corporate America with brands like Gatorade, Starbucks, and TJ Maxx before pivoting to the nonprofit world where he currently leads Corporate Partnership development with retailers and consumer goods companies. He’s an avid reader with a habit of reading 2-3 books at a time and has an embarrassingly long queue of unread books. Dan moved to Woodstock full time in 2023 with his wife and pitbull rescue.

Marisa Serafini, Communications Coordinator
Marisa is a part time resident of Woodstock, and has served as Bookstock’s Communications Coordinator since August of 2021. She has focused on social media, growing the number of followers from under 300 to more than 1000 on both Instagram and Facebook.

Jon Spector* – Executive Director/Board chair
Jon has had a home in Woodstock since 1999 and moved to Woodstock full-time in 2014. Before retiring he held senior positions at McKinsey & Company, University of Pennsylvania, The Conference Board, and several private-equity funded startups. In Woodstock he has been an active volunteer with the town’s Finance Committee and the Economic Development Commission; and is currently the chair of Northern Stage’s board of trustees. 
 
Wendy Spector – Volunteer Management, Website
Wendy has had a home in Woodstock since 1999 and moved to Woodstock full-time in 2014. She spent 10 years in corporate marketing roles before raising four children and shifting to part-time work and non-profit board positions. She also has extensive community volunteer experienced, having been elected to two terms to the school board and three terms as moderator in the town of Weston, MA. In Woodstock, she is on the board of Woodstock Community Trust and serves the town on the Village Development Review Board. She is an avid skier and volunteers as an Ambassador at Killington during the winter.
 

Michael Stoner* – Marketing and Communications/Board Secretary
Michael worked in communications, PR, and marketing roles in higher education. For the last three decades, he was a consultant to colleges and universities worldwide as president of a web strategy and marketing firm. A full-time Woodstock resident since 2002, he was a co-founder of Bookstock and a founder of Sustainable Woodstock and is currently chair of the board of Valley Insight Meditation Society.

 *Members of the Bookstock Board of Trustees

Bookstock 2025 Volunteers

Bookstock is a community event that relies wholly on community engagement. We are proud of and grateful to all the volunteers who work behind the scene, throughout the year, to plan, orchestrate, and present this exciting, enriching, and welcoming event each year. More than 100 people from our community stepped up to help at Bookstock 2025— checking people in, sorting books, emptying trash, and doing many other tasks to make the festival possible. We look forward to working with our volunteers again for Bookstock 2026!  If you’d like to volunteer, please email volunteer@bookstockvt.org with your name, cell phone, and ideas of how you’d like to help. We will be in touch!

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