Introducing, Our Staff

If you've been in the store you may have met them already, but we wanted to take a moment to introduce you to our team of smart, savvy, well read booksellers. We caught them with the bookstore's resident stuffed bear, or in the midst of the festivities at our launch party -- though they're all consummate professionals, you can tell there's a lot of laughter with this lot!


More often than not, you'll find DEBORAH making our children's section shine -- as a neighborhood mom and a former employee of the lovely (late) Chinook Bookshop in Colorado, she's gained lots of experience! She's a master at recommending just the right book for just the right child (and she's a cookbook expert too!)


ELEANOR grew up spending lots of time in a wonderful independent bookstore that her mother co-owns, named Inkwood Books. She brings natural exuberance with her to the store every day, in between classes at NYU (where Jessica was studying when she got her first bookstore job!).

BRETTE is also a bookseller's daughter (her father owned a small independent bookstore), and a former teacher, and also worked at Goering's Bookstore in Gainsville, Florida. As the Mistress of Receiving, she makes sure books get unpacked, checked in and sorted correctly, and she's also a great hand with recommendations.


JASMINE is an art student at Pratt Institute, Fort Greene's own prestigious art and design school. Her bookselling experience comes by way of Manhattan's fantastic radical bookstore and cafe Bluestockings, and she brings a native New Yorker's sensibility to Greenlight.

Before moving to NY for an internship at The Feminist Press, NATALIE was working at a great bookstore that opened last year in Texas called Legacy Books. Natalie has a wonderfully gracious style with anything she takes on, whether it's buying stationary, talking books with customers, or working on compiling a list of our many local authors.


ALEXIS is a former buyer and manager of Olsson's, a bookstore in Washington DC that sadly closed their doors in 2008. Lucky for us though, she's just relocated to NY and brings her prodigious knowledge and skills to Greenlight. Alexis helps make sure the trains run on time, coordinating everything from staff schedules to inventory records with dry wit and aplomb.


JESSE is an artist who hails from Minneapolis, where his mother owns a well known children's bookstore named Wild Rumpus. He's the one who has been doing the drawings on our sandwich board! You can talk to him about any author from Nabokov to R. Crumb in the bookstore, and find his work on his website and in the comics anthology Kramer's Ergot.


DARYL is our newest hire; the only person we have hired since we opened our doors, and she's fitting right in! A former Waldenbooks employee and a recent Sarah Lawrence grad, she's got endless energy and might be the only person on staff who talks even faster than Rebecca!


That's the staff! Along with Jessica and Rebecca, they're the folks who are hard at work making Greenlight into the best bookstore it can be. Stop in and say hello, check out their staff picks, chat with them about your own favorites, and share the bookstore experience with our crew!