Team & Board

Kelsey Frazier (she/her) is a Napa native and co-founder of Napa Bookmine Literary Foundation. After earning her BA in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 she returned home to Napa Valley where she’s forged a career in marketing and communications for various nonprofits and music festivals over the past decade. She currently works full time as Brand Integration Manager for Festival Napa Valley and as Social Media Manager for Napa Bookmine. As an avid reader she’s experienced the magic and importance of literacy first hand and hopes to spread her love of literature and storytelling to children across Napa Valley through her work with NBLF.

Naomi Chamblin owns Napa Bookmine with her husband Eric. She is originally from Jacksonville, Florida and grew up around books as she worked at her dad's giant maze of a used bookstore from a young age. After earning her BA in Dance from Goucher College (Baltimore, MD), she bounced around from Brooklyn to San Francisco, eventually settling in Napa in 2010, opening Napa Bookmine in 2013. Inspired by other bookstores' adjacent nonprofits, she started NBLF in the summer of 2020 alongside its inaugural Executive Director, Kelsey Frazier. Providing access to books to all children is important to her, and Naomi hopes that NBLF can play a role in getting more books into all homes with children in Napa. Naomi and Eric have two small children/bookworms of their own.

Elayna Trucker has lived in Napa for the last eight years and is the Lead Buyer & Operations Manager of Napa Bookmine. She serves on the Napa County Child Care Planning and Development Council, and is the Chair of the Education Committee on the California Independent Booksellers Alliance Board of Directors. Elayna is also the volunteer social media coordinator for the Sierra Club Redwood Chapter, and serves on the Communications Committee of Napa Climate NOW!

Michelle Dickson is a California native who moved to Napa in 2006 (just missing the flood!). She runs a small bookkeeping services firm, is a yoga instructor, and has worked at Napa Bookmine since 2016. An avid reader from an early age, literature offered a beautiful escape that she hopes NBLF can help provide to the children across Napa Valley. She’s been lucky to raise two children who share her love of reading, and giving them a home filled with books has been a joy. Michelle has been on the Board of NBLF since 2020.

Dr. Julie Webb is an experienced educator and a National Board Certified Teacher of literacy. As a classroom teacher and reading specialist, she strived to instill a love of reading and writing in her young students. Julie now provides consulting, research, and technical assistance to state and national education initiatives. Still, she loves to foster literacy learning even closer to home by supporting teachers, families, and children in her community through NBLF. Julie lives in the Napa Valley with her husband and two children who read together every day.

Emily Darlington is an early education professional with over 20 years of experience as a teacher, coach, trainer, advocate, and as an instructor at local community colleges and universities. Her professional passions are working with colleagues to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion; promoting trauma-responsive practices; and advocating at local, regional, and state levels for equitable policies, practices, and funding in the early education field. Emily loves children’s books and studied children’s literature in college. She especially enjoys diverse and inclusive books that celebrate all children and families. She hopes to share her love of books with schools in Napa County through her work with NBLF. Emily was born and raised in Napa and continues to make the valley home with her husband and two children.