NSK Executive Committee

The Executive Committee for the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature oversees and plans all aspects of the prize -- including direction of the program, the appointment of juries, and advice on the disbursement of funds. This committee consists of at least eight regular members and three ex officio, as follows: the executive director of World Literature Today (as permanent chair of the committee), one other editor from WLT, two specialists in children's literature from The University of Oklahoma, and four writers or specialists in children's literature, and commercial publishers and editors of children's literature. The current membership of the committee is as follows:

Robert Con Davis-Undiano (Chair of the Committee), Executive Director, World Literature Today, The University of Oklahoma.
David Draper Clark, Editor, World Literature Today, The University of Oklahoma.
Kathy Latrobe, Professor of Library and Information Science, The University of Oklahoma
Sara Ann Beach, Associate Professor, Literacy Education, The University of Oklahoma
Patricia Aldana, Vice-President and Publisher, Groundwood Books, Toronto
Rosemary Brosnan, Editor, Children's Books, HarperCollins, New York
Nicolás Kanellos, Director, Arte Público Press, Houston
Jeanette Larson, Editor, Children's Books, Harcourt Trade Division, San Diego
Violet Harris, Head, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois

Ex-Officio
Nancy Barcelo, Benefactor and Founder
Susan Neustadt Schwartz, Benefactor and Founder
Kathy Neustadt Hankin, Benefactor and Founder