Team & Board

Napa Bookmine Literary Foundation is passionate about putting books in the hands and homes of kids who need them. We provide FREE books to kids, families, and teachers in under-resourced parts of our community, host literacy-based events, and work to ensure classroom libraries feature books that reflect the diversity of their students. Through our efforts, we hope to increase the number of students reading at grade level by third grade, the number one predictor of high school graduation and career success.

Learn more about the Team and Board that make our mission possible below.

  • Julie Webb | Board President

    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 | Board Vice President

    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.

  • Kelsey Frazier | Board Member

    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 forged a career in marketing and communications for various nonprofits and music festivals over the past decade. In 2024 she went back to school to get her Certification in Paralegal Studies from UCLA and now works as a paralegal at BevinsLaw PC here in Napa.

    As an avid reader, Kelsey has 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 | Board Member

    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.