As Impact Reading’s Board Chair and Reader in Chief, Judy leads all efforts to amplify its mission and expand its reach to ensure equal access to book choice and literacy for all children through partnerships with nonprofits and other organizations. She drives the United States of Readers, its national literacy program, to activate private philanthropy and other funding sources to partner with teachers in under-resourced schools and reach students with the greatest need for literacy support.

As Scholastic’s Chief Impact Officer Emeritus, Judy worked for over three decades to champion teachers and position Scholastic as a trusted literacy partner to meet its students’ evolving needs. She previously served as President of E-Commerce, President of Direct to Home, and President of Scholastic Book Clubs—the company’s unique, classroom-to-home, teacher-led book distribution and literacy support channel.

Judy has extensive leadership experience in the nonprofit space: she is a former Board Chair and current board member of Reach Out and Read, and the Chair of the Board of the M.R. Robinson Foundation.

She holds an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business and a Master’s in Education from Harvard University.

She is also the author of the Bobs and Tweets chapter book series under the pseudonym, Pepper Springfield, and each Halloween, she becomes the “Book Lady,” handing out thousands of books to trick-or-treaters at her home in Montclair, NJ.