Rachel Goldenberg has joined Random House Children's Books as a publishing assistant.
Lindsay Boggs, associate director of publicity at Penguin Young Readers, has left her position to move to London; she can be reached here.
Lauren Diethelm has joined Random House Children's Books as production associate; previously she was production assistant at Professional Sports Publications.
Mara Brashem has joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as digital marketing assistant.
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has two promotions. Katherine Devendorf has been promoted to executive managing editor, from managing editorial director. Julia McCarthy has been promoted to associate editor at Atheneum, from assistant editor.
Ksenia Winnicki has joined Bloomsbury Children's Books as senior publicist. She was formerly senior publicist at Tor.
Scholastic has one promotion and three new hires. Betsy Politi has been promoted to national accounts manager, proprietary projects, from national accounts manager. Savannah D’Amico has returned to the company as national account manager, Barnes & Noble; most recently she was children’s field and educational sales manager at Hachette. Victoria Velez has joined as marketing and publicity assistant; previously she was a publicity intern at Wunderkind PR. Samantha Rios has joined as assistant production editor.
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has two new hires. Lisa Quach has been named marketing manager; she was previously senior marketing coordinator at Big Honcho Media. Kristie Patterson has been named editorial assistant for Aladdin and Simon Pulse; she was previously an editorial intern at McIntosh & Otis.
Random House Children's Books has three new hires. Andrea Lau has been named senior designer on the interior design team; she was previously senior designer at Random House Publishing Group. Jen Valero has been named designer on the interior design team; she was previously junior designer at Random House Publishing Group. Allyssa Price has been named designer on the brand marketing design team; she was previously a designer at Happy Cog Agency.
Abrams has two promotions in children's editorial. Meredith Mundy has been promoted to editorial director, preschool, from executive editor, Appleseed. Courtney Code has been promoted to editor, from associate editor.
Josie Dallam has joined Little Bee Books as sales assistant; she was previously sales and foreign rights intern at Barefoot Books.
