Founding Members

• Prof. Dr. Carmen Becker (Technical University of Braunschweig, Department of English and American Studies)
• Dr. Tatia Gruenbaum (Technical University of Braunschweig, Department of English and American Studies)
• Dr. Jana Mikota (University of Siegen, Department of German Studies)
• Prof. Dr. Daniel Stein (University of Siegen, Department of English)

Academic and Artistic Advisory Board

• Dr. Daniel Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Department of Literature & Linguistics, Israel)
• Prof. Dr. Petra Josting (Emerita) (University of Bielefeld: Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Germany)
• Inbal Leitner (Picture book illustrator and author, lecturer and practitioner at the Cambridge School of Art, UK)
• Prof. Dr. Jan-Erik Leonhardt (Braunschweig University of Technology, Institute of English and American Studies)
• Prof. Dr. Amos Paran (University College London Institute of Education: Department of Culture, Communication & Media, UK)
• Patrica Sarles, MA, MLS, MSEd (Librarian, information specialist, and independent researcher, USA)
• Shirley Waisman (Picture book illustrator and author and regional advisor for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Israel, Israel)

Associate Members & Institutions

• Dr. Jens Aspelmeier, Director of the Aktives Museum Südwestfalen and Director of the Center for Teacher Education (ZfsL) (Siegen, Germany)
• Dr. Barbara Berruti, Director of Istoreto, Institute for the History of the Resistance and the History of Contemporary Italian Society (Turin, Italy)
• Dr. Claudia M. Pecher representing the Michaelsbund/German Academy for Children’s and Youth Literature (Germany)
• Silvana Rampone, Director of SmartEdu4All, a European in-service teacher training and e
  s organization (Turin, Italy)
• Dr. Kees Ribbens, Senior Researcher at the NIOD Institute of War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Dr. Charlotte Schallié, Co-Director of the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project (UVIC, Canada)
• Dr. Sebastian Schmideler, Head of the Children's Book Department at the Berlin State Library (Berlin, Germany)