James Akinaka (he/him) is a Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, working on influencer marketing and social media for @SimonTeen and @SimonKids across all children’s age publishing categories. Before joining S&S, he spent five years at Penguin Young Readers handling digital marketing campaigns for all Young Adult titles at @PenguinTeen, including the National Book Award winners ALL MY RAGE by Sabaa Tahir and LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB by Malinda Lo. He is happy to connect about networking advice, résumé/cover letter reviews, and career paths for book publishing.

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