PANDE LECTURE MANAGEMENT

is a forward-thinking and inclusive speakers’ management agency, affiliated with Ayesha Pande Literary, dedicated to helping event hosts and venues connect with their optimal audiences and create events that matter. We see it as an essential part of our mission to amplify voices that have long been silenced and to help expand the platforms of incredible authors and speakers whose ideas help us understand the world we live in and how we might participate in making it better.

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AYESHA PANDE

is our founding director as well as the founder of Ayesha Pande Literary, a Harlem-based boutique literary agency with an international focus. Before launching the agency, she worked as an editor at several publishing houses, including Farrar Straus & Giroux, HarperCollins and Crown Publishers. She has a graduate degree from Columbia University. She feels very lucky to work with clients that surprise her, teach her, and challenge her with new ideas and new ways of looking at the world. With Pande Lecture Management, she is determined to take her deep appreciation for and commitment to her clients one step further by helping amplify their voices and sharing their ideas with new audiences.

 

Katharyn Haas

is a lecture agent with Pande Lecture Management. After six years as a public librarian and programming coordinator, she discovered her passion for connecting authors and audiences in meaningful ways. Katharyn grew up in rural northern Michigan before pursuing her BA in English and Writing from Hope College and her MLIS from Wayne State University. She enjoys pairing speakers with like-minded venues who seek to challenge existing ideas and inspire new ones for the betterment of the world we all share.

 
 
 
 

Karuna khatri

is an assistant lecture agent with Pande Lecture Management and manages social media for Ayesha Pande Literary. She also works at her local library. Karuna grew up in a multicultural household and lived in Nepal and Thailand, leading her to gravitate toward authors who wrestle with their own complex identities. She attended Seattle Pacific University, where she received her BA in English Literature and developed a love for working with libraries. She feels so lucky to work with storytellers who continue to challenge and broaden our ideas about the world and each other.