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Serene Allen
Serene Allen is our media designer. She has a wealth of knowledge in creating bold, dynamic and memorable short form content. Her skills include video editing, VFX, colour grading and sound mixing. She has a passion for storytelling & delivering diversity in content. media@litrousa.com
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Monica Cardenas
Monica Cardenas is a fiction reader at Litro. She is a PhD candidate and visiting tutor at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she studies non-maternal and ambivalent mothers in literature, and teaches creative writing. Her work has been published in Catatonic Daughters and Litro. She is from Washington, D.C., but resides in London with her partner and rescue Shiba Inu, Dojo.
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Bobby Wilson
Bobby Wilson is Litro's non fiction editor and is a writer and teacher living in Nanjing, China. He has a podcast exclusively about Black literature, The Most Dangerous Thing in America. He will argue with you about basketball, film or hip-hop (or pretty much anything else) until a consensus is reached. It rarely is.
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Oindrila Gupta
Oindrila is Litro's Assistant Managing editor. She has a Masters in Magazine Journalism from Cardiff University, after a brief hiatus, she returns to Litro managing content flow across all its platforms. Her works have been published in Love in Trying Times (anthology), Popshot, Alt Cardiff, Icy Tales, Go With Me, ProdNote.
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Ursula Brunetti
Ursula Brunetti is a creative copywriter and an award-winning short story writer whose work has been published by Prospect, Popshot, The Willesden Herald, and the Oxford Review of Books.
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Kwadwo Gyimah
2024 FELLOW: EngineeringCivil Engineering graduate currently studying a Master's in Data Science & AI, and four years of experience as a Structural Engineering Apprentice. Expertise in merging engineering principles with data analytics and AI to optimize construction and infrastructure projects. A problem-solver with excellent communication skills, eager to contribute to innovative and technology-driven engineering solutions.
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Jessica Andrews
Litro Masterclass TutorJessica writes fiction. Her debut novel, Saltwater was published by Sceptre in 2019 and won the Portico Prize in 2020. It explores mother-daughter relationships and shifting class identity in relation to place and the body. Her second novel, Milk Teeth interrogates wanting, denial, food and shame and will be published in July 2022. She writes for the Guardian, the Independent, BBC Radio 4, Stylist and ELLE magazine, among others. She was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Futures in 2022 and nominated for the ELLE list in 2020. She co-runs literary and arts magazine, The Grapevine and co-presents literary podcast, Tender Buttons.
Litro USA Board
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Eric Akoto, FRSA
CEO & PresidentEric is a keen runner and hiker he is the founder of Litro, his passions lie in innovation, fairness and free speech. Eric has written for various publications and contributed to various books on culture. He also guest curates and comperes at festivals such as The Brooklyn Book Festival, The Jaipur Literary and Arts festival, The Hay Festival. He highly recommends a morning meditation to start your day… Hay Festival.
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Linda Thomas Brooks
Advisory Board MemberLinda Thomas Brooks Is President and CEO Public Relations Society of America Inc
she has spent her career at the intersection of media, consumer behavior and technology. She has developed media and marketing strategies for many well-known brands and companies, including General Motors, GEICO, The American Cancer Society, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente and Experian. Her experience serving both businesses and consumers covers a wide-range of media disciplines and capabilities, including digital and emerging media; data and analytics; media strategy, buying and planning. -
Judy Clain
Board MemberJudy Clain is Senior Vice President and Publisher of Summit Books an Imprint of Simon & Schuster. She has had the great privilege of editing some extraordinary books, all linked by one thing: a great voice. Some of the authors Judy has edited include Emma Donoghue, Maria Semple, Jake Tapper, Ayad Akhtar, Sarah Dunn, Peter Godwin, Chigozie Obioma, Lucy Tan, Elin Hilderbrand, and Edna O’Brien. Non-fiction titles Judy has edited include Delia Ephron’s memoir, Left on Tenth, I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, Julie Powell’s Julie and Julia, and Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring.
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Hozefa Lokhandwala
Advisory Board memberChief strategy officer of VICE Media, leading corporate strategy and business development.
Former managing director and head of content and entertainment in the Media Investment Banking Group at J.P. Morgan, providing capital markets and mergers and acquisitions advisory services to companies across the media sector. DJ Fesones /Iron Man Productions, DJ, & music producer. -
Sara Kozak
Advisory Board memberSara Kozak is senior vice president of production for Investigation Discovery (ID) and discovery + (d+) With more than four decades of experience in the television and streaming industry, Kozak has been at the forefront of some of television's most recognizable and lucrative series and specials.
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Mark Bradford
Advisory Board memberMark Bradford is a graduate of has an A.B. from Brown University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School. In 2009, he
started his own firm, Mark Bradford, P.C., which specializes in copyright, trademark, arts, music, and media law in addition to
commercial litigation, representing start-ups and entrepreneurs. He is general counsel for Electronic Arts Intermedia, has done
legal work for Trisha Brown, the Merce Cunningham Trust, and Anthology Film Archives, among others, and is the executor of
the estate of multi-media artist Stuart Sherman. He lives in Brooklyn.