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| Rio Cortez | |
Rio Cortez has joined HarperCollins in the newly created role of sales and retail marketing manager. She will work with the sales and publishing teams to continue to expand the overall sales of books by BIPOC authors across all channels, develop and execute a business plan for that, and work to increase sales to the BIPOC-owned bookstore community. In addition, she will be responsible for developing a bookseller network that will help identify marketplace priorities for BIPOC-owned bookstores and using that to provide feedback on acquisition proposals and identify opportunities in the marketplace.
Most recently, Cortez was the buyer and creative coordinator at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and was responsible for buying books and sidelines related to the global Black experience for the Schomburg Shop, the independent bookstore arm of the organization. Earlier she held sales rep and executive roles at Abrams, Simon & Schuster and Penguin.