Sara Iacovelli
President, VIDA Count Director
Sara Iacovelli has been volunteering with VIDA since 2014 and is currently the VIDA Count Director and President of the Board of Directors. She grew up outside New York City...
Team
The VIDA Count Team
Our dedicated team of VIDA Count volunteers work from August to April tallying up publications to provide our data.
Christina Djossa
VIDA Count Assistant Director
Christina Djossa is a New York based reporter and storyteller who covers the overlooked histories of our world. Christina has written for Atlas Obscura, Thrillist, On She Goes, and as well as other publications....
Mariah Stovall
VIDA Count, BIPOC Survey Coordinator
Mariah Stovall began her publishing career at Gallery Books, before moving to Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and later to Writers House, where she is now a junior literary agent. She...
Julia Calagiovanni
VIDA Count, Count Coordinator
Julia Calagiovanni is an East Coast expat living in Austin, Texas. This year is her third with the Count. She is the grants and awards manager at the Texas Tribune,...
Emmalie Dropkin
VIDA Count, Count Coordinator
Emmalie Dropkin is a writer, teacher, and activist currently lecturing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she earned an MFA. Her writing has been published by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency,...
Jess Engebretson
VIDA Count, Count Coordinator
Jess grew up in Virginia and now writes and teaches in New York City. Previously, she worked in public radio in the US and taught radio journalism for several years...
Emma Lo
VIDA Count, Count Coordinator
Emma Lo is a poet and music maker based in Berlin. She is working toward a masters in modern South Asian and Southeast Asian studies at the Humboldt University.
Katharine Perko
VIDA Count, Count Coordinator
Katharine Perko is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at a CUNY college. She researches gossip culture and the early twentieth century British novel. Outside of academic study, her fascination...
Kelly Lynn Thomas
VIDA Count, Count Coordinator
Kelly Lynn Thomas reads, writes, and sometimes sews in Pittsburgh, PA. Her creative work has appeared in Permafrost, Sou’wester, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and others, and was a...
Janet Dale
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Janet is an NTT Assistant Professor in the Dept of Writing & Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. In addition to teaching and mentoring students, she enjoys advocacy, reading, and writing....
Jennifer Didik
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Jennifer Didik is an alumna of New York University, where she majored in Art History and minored in English Literature. Since graduating, she’s held various positions in publishing and is...
Lisa Fry
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Lisa Fry is an American freelance writer living in London. She loves to read and explore the city by bike.
Amber Gallant
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Amber Gallant is a writer and essayist currently living in Cardiff (the lesser-known town in California, not the Welsh capital, though she thinks that’d be great). She works as a...
Jessica Guzman
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Jessica Guzman is the author of Adelante (Switchback Books, forthcoming), selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2019 Gatewood Prize. Her poems appear in Shenandoah, jubilat, The Greensboro Review,...
Vic Hargrove
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Victor Hargrove is a transgender masculine person with a strong focus on how gender plays a role in the literary arts. They are a writer and frequently write on topics...
Sylvia Jones
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Sylvia Jones is a writer, educator, and prison abolitionist. She received her MFA from American University, in Washington D.C. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Santa Clara Review, Ponder Review,...
Sarah Kearns
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Sarah Kearns studies literature and gender studies at Bard College in New York.
Dee Loeffler
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Dee Loeffler is a California-born Midwestern transplant to the East Coast, where there is more sunshine but less snow. They are a health services researcher during the day. They are...
Bridget O’Keefe
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Bridget O’Keefe is a writer, student, book collector, and cinephile, hailing from Long Island, New York. She studies writing, experimental literature, and cultural history at Sarah Lawrence College. Her professional...
Ida Rahimi
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Ida Rahimi is a senior studying English at Boston University. Although her post-grad plans are uncertain, she’s sure that whatever path she chooses will involve using her passion for literature,...
Tess Wilson
VIDA Count, Volunteer
Tess Wilson is a librarian in the hills of Pennsylvania, but she hails from the Kansas prairie. Her poetry has appeared in NEAT Magazine, IDK Magazine, Manhattanville Review, Squad of Sisters...
