About Our Team
Faculty and Staff
Manuela Soares
Director, Lecturer
As Director of the Pace University Press, Soares works with editors on a variety of academic journals. Well-known for its studies of Virginia Woolf and medieval literature, more recent additions to the Press list of publications include journals on acting, comics, philosophy, and psychology. As Director, Soares reviews new submissions and oversees the operation of the Press and its staff. Soares is also the Director of the MS in Publishing program at Pace.
Patricia Hinds
Marketing Manager
Patricia Hinds is an accomplished editor, writer, educator, and publishing executive. She owns a book producing and publishing services company, Mignon Communications, LLC, whose clients over more than three decades include an impressive list of Fortune 500 and publishing companies. And she is an adjunct associate professor of English at Pace University.
Professor Hinds is the author of the widely acclaimed The Good Sense Handbook: 52 Weeks of Inspired Thought, and nine children’s books, including the very popular What I Want To Be, published by Golden Books, which also published My Best Friend and Baby Face. A Day in the Life of Morgan Freeman, Actor, was published by Macmillan/McGraw Hill.
Hinds was selected by Essence Communications to create Essence Books, which includes sixteen titles. As editor, her books were published by Random House, Harry N. Abrams, and Time Inc. She also created and edited Essence Books for Children, which includes nineteen original titles. Mignon Communications published With These Hands, poetic and photographic reflections of old and new South Africa by Donna Katzin, which includes a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and introduction by Danny Glover.
Alicia Hughes
Graduate Assistant
Alicia Hughes has known publishing was her path since she was 12-years-old and asked her Dad “what’s a job where I can be around books all day?” Originally from a small town in Western New York, Alicia traveled north up Lake Ontario to Oswego where she received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a minor in English from SUNY Oswego. While at Oswego, Alicia was an active part of the university’s literary magazine, The Great Lake Review, the student-run newspaper, The Oswegonian, and interned at Buffalo’s number one morning radio show at 106.5FM WYRK. She is interested in library and school research. Alicia is beyond ecstatic to be apart of the Pace University Press and to be pursuing her masters in publishing at Pace University!
Jessie Estrella
Graduate Assistant
Jessie Estrella is a new graduate student in the MS in Publishing program. Born in the Bronx and currently residing in Mount Hope, New York, Jessie has always been close to the Big Apple. She got her bachelor’s degree in English, with a minor in communications at The University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania. While at Scranton, Jessie was a staff writer for the student newspaper, The Aquinas, and became an editor her junior year. As an editor, Jessie assisted in creating the school’s first student magazine. She was also a writing consultant at Scranton’s writing center for two years, and worked at the university’s Human Resources office for three. Jessie hopes to become an editor in the publishing industry, but is excited to learn about the various paths and opportunities the industry offers. She is grateful for the opportunity to be a Graduate Assistant at Pace University Press.