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Some of the People at Summer Street Press
 Judy Glickman, Co-Founder
Judy has been an editor and executive in educational publishing since 1977. Judy
has developed best-selling products for all levels of the K-12 market including
textbooks, activity programs, and multimedia. A graduate of Brooklyn College
with a degree in history and education, Judy says that she “has worked
on more textbook projects than she’ll ever be able to remember.”
 Nick Mandelkern, Co-Founder
Nick has worked in the educational publishing business since 1983, as a writer,
editor, marketer, manager, and executive. He has developed materials in all
kinds of media, including textbooks, trade books, video, audio material, software,
and CD-ROM. Nick’s educational background includes a BA in history from
Yale University and an MBA from New York University. His three school-age children
give him lots of in-house feedback on our projects.
 Adam Reingold, Marketing Consultant
Adam spends his days, and
unfortunately his nights, thinking of engaging new products and
unique business strategies for the educational and consumer product
markets. He has over 15 years of experience in educational publishing
as a writer, editor, and marketing executive. His media adventures
include founding www.CivCity.com, the internet’s first children’s
community featuring interactions with great historical characters,
as well as serving as producer for PBS’s the Charlie Rose
Show. He is also a children’s book writer on subjects as
diverse as river ecology and classical ballet. Adam’s early,
early mornings are spent along New York’s East River, walking
his family dog and admiring the tugboats steaming by.
 Steve
Sheinkin, Writer
Steve has been at SSP since 1998. He is currently writing Storyteller's History,
a series of American history books dedicated to the goal of proving to kids that
history is actually exciting (they never believe it when you just tell them).
As a key member of our editorial team, he is always on the lookout for writers
and new project ideas that share this same goal. Steve is also the author and
illustrator of the
Rabbi Harvey graphic novel series.
 Jessica Rudolph, Supervising Editor
Jessica has been an editor for Summer Street Press since 2000.
Before that, she worked as an assistant editor for a financial
magazine and worked retail as a bookseller. She graduated from
SUNY Purchase. She enjoys having a job that actually puts her
history degree to good use.
 Miriam Aronin, Senior Project Editor
Before joining Summer Street Press in 2004, Miriam was a teacher
and curriculum developer. She is a graduate of Brandeis University
and has a master’s degree in history from the University
of North Carolina. When not editing or writing, Miriam might
be found dancing or trying out Summer Street Press products
as a volunteer literacy instructor for schoolchildren.
 Joyce
Tavolacci, Senior Project Editor
Joyce has been editing and developing books on topics ranging from insects and
spiders to the history of Nevada for the school and library market since 1998.
She prefers Times New Roman to all other fonts and has an ever so unhealthy obsession
with Chinese opera and early manuscript illuminations. She predicts her collection
of lady slipper orchids will soon outnumber her collection of Victorian bell
jars.
 Sara Bailey, Project Editor
Prior to joining Summer Street Press
in 2005, Sara worked as a bookseller and freelance writer. She
is a graduate of Purchase College and holds a degree in literature.
Currently, she is on page 43 of Finnegans Wake, which she
has been reading for over ten years. Outside of work, Sara enjoys
playing drums, reading, and frantically crossing out typos in
various magazines and newspapers.
 Alex Giannini, Project Editor
After about a month of thinking about what to write for this blurb,
Alex decided that it would be best to keep things simple. Alex
joined Summer Street in 2006, and has been editing books ever since.
When not editing books, Alex can be found reading them.
 Shivaun Dipshan, Project Editor
Shivaun joined Summer Street Press in 2006, after graduating from
New York University with a degree in journalism. When she is
not tutoring children in Spanish, she enjoys watching foreign
films (mostly three-hour long Bollywood films), indulging in
ethnic cuisines, knitting, and reading. She is a member of a
local book club, although after reading all day at work, it seems
like that is the last thing she wants to do! In the future, Shivaun
hopes to travel more often; she usually goes to Asia once a year
to visit her family.
 Matthew Bond, Assistant Project Editor
Matt joined our team in
2007 after interning here during the summer of 2006. Matt has previous
experience in the educational and editorial fields, and he is pleased
that working at SSP combines different elements of his past pursuits.
Outside of the office he tutors high school students and is an
avid reader and runner.
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