Meet the Team

Christine Hung is the executive director of audience development for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group where her team focuses on consumer insights, multicultural marketing, backlist marketing, social media analysis, and web/email development. Her previous positions were in the Penguin Random House corporate marketing group and Random House Children’s Books, where she indulged her love of young adult novels. She is involved with the KDPG DEI committee and focuses on career growth initiatives across the company. Christine is happy to have recently moved to the most diverse borough in the world, Queens.

Jalissa Corrie is the Marketing Manager at Lee & Low Books, the largest multicultural children's book publisher in the United States. She likes to travel to distant lands through rich storytelling and she writes young adult science fiction featuring people of her community and beyond. When she isn’t writing or working, you can find her at bookish events across New York City. Find her on Twitter @jmarcellecorrie.

Claire Yee is a senior editor at Ten Speed Press / 4 Color Books, where she focuses on food and drink, wellness, craft, and lifestyle. She previously worked at Weldon Owen, Callisto Media, and various academic publishing companies and comes from a background of production management, production editorial, and design. As a first-generation ABC (American Born Chinese), she is passionate about bringing forward more diverse voices in the industry, whether it is behind the scenes or public-facing. In her spare time, she loves to eat, forage for food, and letter. Find her on Instagram @jauneclaire or on Twitter @clairexyee.

committee Directors

Jas Perry is the Director of Special Projects and a Literary Agent with KT Literary representing Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction and Graphic Novels for all ages. Jas is Black/Japanese and represents a diverse range of strong voices with a focus on BIPOC, QTPOC, and/or disabled creators. She was previously a freelance children's editor, an authenticity reader, and an editorial intern with Scholastic/AALB and Levine Querido. She writes as J.P. Takahashi and her upcoming debut picture book TOKYO NIGHT PARADE (HarperCollins/Tegen) is set for Fall 2023 with illustrator Minako Tomigahara. Website: jas-perry.com Twitter: @TakahashiPerry

Saba Sulaiman is an agent at Talcott Notch Literary Services, a boutique agency located in Milford, CT. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from the University of Chicago, where she studied modern Persian literature. Being a first generation immigrant in the process of negotiating her own identity and sense of belonging in a place she now calls “home,” she is committed to highlighting more diverse voices with compelling stories to tell; stories that demonstrate the true range of perspectives that exist in this world, and address urgent and often underexplored issues with veracity and heart. You can learn more about Saba on her website or follow her on Twitter.

Carolina Ortiz is an editor at HarperCollins Children’s. She works on a variety of projects but primarily focuses on middle grade, young adult, and graphic novels. Before her time at HarperCollins, she worked as a marketing and publicity associate at an independent press. She is excitingly building a list that reflects the diverse world around us and that would allow readers to feel seen in the books they read—a feeling that she rarely experienced in her childhood. Find her on Twitter at @pushthepanorama and her website carolinaiortiz.com.

Jasmine Miranda is the Events Chair of the Communications & Events Subcommittee. She was formerly assistant marketing manager for the school and library Marketing at Bloomsbury Children’s Books. Previously she worked as a marketing coordinator at Scholastic and a marketing assistant at Macmillan Learning. She completed her BA in English and Linguistics at Lehman College. She loves graphic novels and quirky romances with great humor and a lot of heart.

Elizabeth Agyemang is the Communications Chair of the Communications & Events Subcommittee and an Associate Editor at Clarion Books, where she gets to work on an exciting range of picture books, middle grade, young adult, and graphic novels from brilliant creators. She joined POC in Pub in 2018 after being inspired by the group’s advocacy work and the supportive community it has fostered. Elizabeth is also a writer and an illustrator and her middle grade graphic novel debut Fibbed will be published by Razorbill on June 7, 2022. When she isn’t gushing over books or comics, she spends her time dissecting classic movies and playing Final Fantasy. Website: elizabethagyemang.com Twitter: @onceaddai ; Instagram: @onceaddai

Tyra Douyon is the Development Chair of the Communications & Events Subcommittee and an Atlanta-based writer, editor, and educator. She earned her B.A. in English Education and is pursuing her M.A. in Professional Writing from Kennesaw State University. She is the founder of Write House Books, a company that offers editing services to authors that focus on underrepresented communities, is a Writer/Editor for Gallopade International, and the Editorial Director for The Headlight Review. She writes poetry and fiction that highlight the effects of mental health and the intersection of Afro-Caribbean and American identity. She is a TinHouse YA Workshop alum and is currently writing her debut YA novel-in-verse. Find her on Twitter @TyraAliWrites and her website tyradouyon.com.

Patrice Caldwell is the founder of People of Color in Publishing. She is a former children’s book editor turned literary agent and author. Her YA anthology, A Phoenix First Must Burn: 16 stories of Black girl magic, resistance, and hope is out now from Penguin Random House in the US & Canada and Hot Key Books YA in the UK. Visit Patrice on Twitter @whimsicallyours, Instagram @whimsicalaquarian, and her website, patricecaldwell.com.

Saraciea J. Fennell is a book publicist and the founder of The Bronx is Reading—Bronx Book Festival. She is also a book publicist who has worked with many award-winning and New York Times best-selling authors. She is pursuing an MFA at Lesley University, and her YA nonfiction anthology, WILD TONGUES CAN’T BE TAMED—a collection of Latinx authors writing about stereotypes, identity, and culture—is out Fall 2021 from Flatiron Books. Visit her on Twitter and Instagram: @sj_fennell.

committee volunteers

Communications & Events

Leila Siddiqui joined the People of Color in Publishing Communications & Events sub-committee in Spring 2019. She is currently a Senior Manager of Digital Strategy at DK and previously worked at Simon & Schuster and Dutton, Penguin Random House. She is also a trained inclusion partner through PRH's Inclusion Partner program and an author. Twitter: @leilawrites Instagram: @leilasidd13

Amanda Orozco is a literary agent at the Transatlantic Agency and currently lives in Los Angeles. She has been a part of POCinPub since 2018 and joinied the C&E Committee in early 2021.