"Everyone deserves the chance to see themselves in books and to know that books exist for them to be inspired, entertained and educated," she said. Rogers Southern said that her main focus in coming months will be an all-ages and communitywide anti-racism initiative, which is part of Bookmarks' Books with Purpose programming.
Rogers Southern has also been an education coordinator with the American Booksellers Association, worked at the Alabama Booksmith, Birmingham, Ala., and ran her own events company. She started with Bookmarks as a volunteer at the 2009 Festival of Books & Authors. She had been interim executive director for the past six months and before that, was operations director for nine years.
Jamie Rogers Southern has been named executive director of Bookmarks, the literary arts nonprofit and independent bookstore in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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