People 1/28 - Publishers Lunch

Scholastic

Julia Sabbagh is promoted to senior creative director for licensing, proprietary, and Klutz.

Vanessa Han is promoted to associate creative director.

Eida del Risco has joined Scholastic en Español as associate editor.

Georges Borchardt

Pronoy Sarkar will join as agent. He was most recently senior editor at Little, Brown.

Zando

Marina Padakis Lowry has joined as director of publishing operations. She was previously executive managing editor at Union Square & Co.

Ash Tsai joins as designer.

Candlewick, Holiday House, and Peachtree

Taylor Norman has been promoted to editorial director at Neal Porter Books.

Sara DiSalvo has been promoted to assistant director of publicity.

Rachel Kirby has been promoted to publicity manager.

Stephanie Pando has been promoted to senior publicist.

Little, Brown Children's

Ruqayyah Daud has been promoted to senior editor.

Milena Blue Spruce and Jessica Levine have been promoted to associate editor.

Random House Publishing Group

Rachel Parker has been promoted to publicist.

Tokyopop

Owais Farooqui joins as director of marketing & sales, reporting to coo and publisher Marc Visnick. He was previously at King Digital, Yahoo!, Atari, and Discovery Communication,

Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans

Authors Against Book Bans will host a town hall meeting on January 30 at 4 PM EST for any publishing professionals who are interested in starting their own organization to fight book bans. Anyone who works in publishing is encouraged to join. To attend, or just get more information, register here.