Center for Fiction Taps Traci Lester to Lead

Apr 08, 2021

Traci Lester has been named executive director of the Center for Fiction. Lester joins the Center for Fiction from National Dance Institute, where she served as executive director from 2016 until March of this year. She began the role on April 6. Lester succeeds interim executive director Michael Roberts, who assumed the role last June after the retirement of longtime director Noreen Tomassi. She began the role on April 6. In addition, the following people were named to the Center's Board of Directors: David Bruson, director of public affairs at Nickelodeon and ViacomCBS Kids & Family Entertainment; Chiwoniso Kaitano, executive director of Girl Be Heard; Susan Restler, strategy consultant and treasurer of the Brooklyn Heights Association; and writer Jacqueline Woodson.