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Meet the 2015 ECC Board!! | February 9, 2015

This team of enthusiastic young professionals is here to answer any questions may you have about the ECC. Talk to your in-house rep about how to get involved in all of our great programming. Looking to get involved but don’t have an in-house rep? Contact Shaina at the CBC!!

Find out what the ECC can’t put down!

Ellen Cormier (Chair), Editorial Assistant at Penguin Young Readers

Ellen is completely obsessed with Robin LaFevers’ His Fair Assassin series and is reading the third book, Mortal Heart, whenever she has a spare moment!

Shaina Birkhead (CBC Liaison to the ECC), Special Projects Assistant at the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader

Shaina is devouring Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series for the third time and just started The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

Anna Dobbin (secretary), Editorial Associate at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers

Anna is doubling up on her reading as well with both The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel, and El Deafo, by Cece Bell!

Hillary Doyle, Cross-Channel and Rights Assistant at Scholastic Inc.

Landline, by Rainbow Rowell, is helping Hillary keep in touch with her teenage years!

Marisa Finkelstein, Assistant Production Editor at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Marisa is embracing the season with Winterspell by Claire Legrand!

Chris Hernandez, Associate Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books

Chris just finished We Were Liars and has begun the fourth volume in the American Vampire series by Scott Snyder and Stephen King (Vertigo).

Johanna Kirby, Trade Marketing Assistant at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

Johanna is trying to get over her Serial withdrawal by reading The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcom!

Catherine Laudone, Editorial Assistant at Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Great minds think alike! Catherine is also reading Winterspell by Claire Legrand.

Matt Poulter, Events and Projects Assistant and Membership Coordinator at the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader

Keeping a hand in both adult and kid lit, Matt is reading The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and Dragons at Crumbling Castle by Terry Pratchett.

Eileen Savage, Designer at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

Eileen is quelling the travel bug with Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia by Mark Jenkins.

Nicole Sclama, Editorial Assistant at Abrams Books

Nicole is keeping up with this year’s new releases and reading All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.

Dani Toth, Marketing Associate, School and Library at Random House Children’s Books

Dani is finishing up The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood and recommends starting the trilogy as soon as you can!