GENTLE GIRAFFE PRESS - Key Persons


Corkey Hay DeSimone

Job Titles:
  • Our President
Our president, Corkey Hay DeSimone was founding owner and designer of Corkey's Kids children's clothing company. In 2003, after a very successful and exciting twelve years she sold Corkey's Kids to start her own creative content and educational publishing company, Gentle Giraffe Press. Since then she's written and illustrated over 24 books and created custom content in the form of websites, lesson plans, maps, apps, products and books for amazing groups like the Smithsonian, National Zoo, World Wildlife Fund, Sundance, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, National Park Trust and many more.