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Janice Audet will join as executive editor on January 23. Audet was most recently executive editor for science at Harvard University Press.

Jonathan Sperling has been promoted to associate editor on the business team.

Jarrod Annis has joined as sales and marketing manager. He was previously a manager at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

LeKeisha Hughes has been promoted to associate editor for art history and music.

Naja Pulliam Collins has been promoted to associate editor for environmental studies and geography.

Kate Ruane joins as the inaugural Sy Syms director, U.S. Free Expression programs. She was previously with Wikimedia, where she was lead public policy specialist for the United States. PEN writes that Ruane “will lead PEN America’s advocacy, campaigning, and litigation on First Amendment and related free expression issues, developing new legal and advocacy strategies to address the mounting threats to free speech that are polarizing society and eroding American democracy.”