RACWI
MISSION STATEMENT
Rochester Area Children’s Writers and Illustrators provides coordinated monthly meetings to share knowledge about writing and illustrating for children and information regarding the publishing process. Our goal is to help those writers and illustrators seeking publication in the field of children’s writing and illustrating and those already published to improve their craft through quality programs and workshops, critique groups, and the RACWI Reports newsletter.

Board Members 2021-2022
President: Sarah Mead
Treasurer: Jennifer Shipkowski
Membership Coordinator: Susannah Buhrman-Deever
RACWI Reports Newsletter Editors: Keely Hutton and Peggy Thomas
Festival-to-Go Director and RACWI Historian: Vivian Vande Velde
Book Festival Co-Directors: Vicki Schultz, Barbara Underhill, and Jim Chaize
Advisors: Carol Johmann, Linda Sue Park
RACWI Founders
1989 MaryJane Auch and Nancy (Hands) Kraus
RACWI Presidents
1989 – 1990 Nancy Hands
1990 – 1997 Jennifer Meagher
1998 – 2008 Carol Johmann
2009 – 2011 Elizabeth Sullivan Falk
2012 – 2016 Barbara Underhill
2016 – 2017 Andrea Page and Barbara Underhill
2018 – 2022 Kathleen Blasi and Andrea Page
2022 – Sarah Mead