Meet the Team

Christine Hung is the executive director of marketing for Vintage Books where her team focuses on campaigns for James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Erik Larson, Stephen King, and more. 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.

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

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.