The Inlandia Institute has a new leader.

Mckenna Deluca-Martinez is taking over the nonprofit literary organization that’s based in Riverside.

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Deluca-Martinez was programs director for the Claremont Forum , a nonprofit organization that supports the arts, education and wellness. She supervised daily operations at its bookshop for five years, an Inlandia news release states.

Deluca-Martinez also led the organization’s Prison Library Project, which takes books to incarcerated people across the nation. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Prison Library Press, which publishes work from incarcerated writers and artists.

“Arts and literature are the lifeblood of our home in the Inland Empire,” Deluca-Martinez sai

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