Lauren Ciborski Joins ABA as New CFO | the American Booksellers Association

Lauren Ciborski has joined ABA as the new Chief Financial Officer!  To help our members get to know her, Ciborski sat down with Bookselling This Week for a brief interview. Bookselling This Week : Why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background. What sort of work did you do before you joined ABA? Lauren Ciborski: I’ve had a really nonlinear career trajectory and I’ve worn a lot of different hats — sometimes simultaneously — in different higher education, arts and culture, and nonprofit positions. I started out working in libraries, and I went to library school. After that I moved into fundraising. I learned to be a grant writer and I did prospect research, identifying potentially wealthy donors who might make large gifts in a university office.  About 12 years ago, I got a job at a nonprofit theater, initially doing development work — grant writing, writing annual appeals — and some communications. And I did a lot of other things: operations, helping with productions, bookkeeping. It was a great opportunity for me to learn new things, and I discovered that I really like working with numbers. The theater needed someone to write budgets, and create reports
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