LYNN GOLDBERG, Chief Executive Officer Lynn Goldberg founded her company, Lynn Goldberg Communications, in 1981. The name of the firm was changed in 1997 to Goldberg McDuffie Communications, Inc.. Previously, she was Director of Publicity for Farrar, Straus & Giroux, for Pantheon Books, and Publicity Manager of Random House. Before her publishing career, she was a teacher of African-American studies in the New York City Public High Schools. Ms. Goldberg has been profiled by Publishers Weekly and PRWeek and interviewed on the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and Public Radio International’s Marketplace. The New York Observer designated her "the Brigadier General of big-book publicity," and her innovative public relations campaigns have been cited by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and The Economist. She serves on the board of Poets & Writers and has been a member of the executive board of PEN American Center. She is on the advisory boards of The New York Public Library, The New School’s MFA program in creative writing and The Jerusalem International Book Fair. She also serves on the Council for Literacy for Literacy Partners, Inc. and is a member of the President's Council of Heritage College, located on the Yakama Nation reservation in Washington State.