At Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, Nicole Otto has been promoted to associate editor at Imprint; previously she was assistant editor. Weslie Turner has joined Imprint as associate editor; previously she was assistant editor at Scholastic.
Feather Flores is joining Chronicle Children's Books as editorial assistant.
Jenny Brown is stepping down as v-p and publisher of Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, as of August 3. She joined Knopf in 2015, and before that was children's editor at Shelf Awareness and children's reviews editor at Publishers Weekly.
Random House Children's Books has two promotions. Aisha Cloud has been promoted to senior publicity manager, from publicity manager. Allison Judd has been promoted to associate publicity manager, from senior publicist.
HarperCollins Children's Books has four promotions. Olivia Russo has been promoted to associate director, from senior publicity manager. Gina Rizzo has been promoted to senior publicity manager, from publicity manager. Lindsey Karl has been promoted to manager, conference and conventions, from assistant manager, conferences and conventions. Mitch Thorpe has been promoted to publicist, from associate publicist.
Scholastic has several new hires and promotions. Beth Dunfey returns to the company as executive editorial director for licensing, brands and media; she was previously a freelance editor. Elisabeth Ferrari has joined as publicist; previously she was associate publicist at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Carmen Alvarez has joined as marketing manager for Graphix, chapter books, and paperback series; previously she was assistant manager, children’s marketing at Abrams. Shivana Sookdeo has joined as designer; most recently she was a freelance designer. Josh Berlowitz has joined Scholastic as production editor, hardcover; previously he was managing editorial assistant in children’s books at Abrams. Phil Falco has been promoted to creative director of Graphix, from executive art director. Cassandra Pelham Fulton has been promoted to executive editor of Graphix, from senior editor. Jackie Rubin has been promoted to senior national accounts manager, from national accounts manager. Maeve Norton has been promoted to senior designer, trade fiction, from designer. Erin O’Connor has been promoted to senior director, production, from senior director, cross channel production. Elizabeth Krych has been promoted to associate director, trade production, from senior manager, production. Gabriel Rumbaut has been promoted to production editor/chief copyeditor, from chief copyeditor. Ashley Cooke has been promoted to associate marketing manager, from marketing coordinator. Alan Anderson has been promoted to metadata and efficiencies coordinator, from metadata technology assistant.
Lauren Carr has joined the children's group at Bonnier Publishing USA as publicist. Previously she was publicity coordinator at Scholastic.
John Cusick has been promoted to vice-president at Folio Literary Management. He has been with Folio since 2015.
Also at Folio, Elissa Erwin has joined the agency as assistant to Emily van Beek; she was formerly editorial assistant at Sourcebooks.
Alexandra Hernandez has joined Macmillan Children's Book Group as associate publicist; previously, she was publicity assistant at Oxford University Press.
Emily Ritter has joined Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing as digital and social marketing manager; previously she was marketing manager at Bloomsbury Children's Books.
Feather Flores has joined Chronicle Children's Books as an editorial assistant; previously she was an editorial intern.
