Veronica Santiago Liu is the founder and general coordinator of the collective that operates Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria in Washington Heights. She is the maker of a handful of one-off and in-progress zines. Veronica joins us in 2024 as a first-time FZF organizer.
Jordan Alam is returning to the zine fest team after many years away! They live in Seattle and are a late-blooming roller derby athlete who is probably going to write a zine about finding your inner bro. They also are a clinical social worker, writer, performer, and your perfect fantasy nemesis.
Jenna Freedman is the zine librarian at Barnard College and has been making the zine Lower East Side Librarian since 2001. Jenna received a game show-style “giant check” at the zinefest in 2019, to honor her long-standing commitment to zines and zinester communities (the check amount was for less than $100, but it was about 6 feet wide). Jenna has personally collected and cataloged thousands of zines by creators across the country and internationally – her contribution to zine culture is extremely notable and widely appreciated.
Jade Levine is a writer, zine-maker, and quilter based in NYC. She is former Deputy Zine Librarian of the Barnard Zine Library and has taught zine workshops for children and adults for over 10 years. Her first zine was the Arthur fanzine A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K, made with her sister Nathalie.
Elvis Bakaitis started the first NYC Feminist Zinefest with their awesome friend Kate Angell back in 2012. Elvis also created the long-running zine Homos in Herstory, about queer history in the USA, and hosted oodles of zine workshops at high schools, colleges, and senior centers, as a self-described “zine evangelist”. Currently in 2024, they are a Coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, a board member of CLAGS: The Center for LGTBQ Studies, and proudly serve on the CUNY University LGBTQ Council.
And now for a giant photo of a “live” falcon – –
This intrepid falcon is the Official Mascot of the zinefest.
NYC Feminist Zinefest 