Carolina Mancheno Ortiz is an editor at HarperCollins Children’s. She works on a variety of projects, but focuses on middle grade, young adult, and graphic novels. Before her time at HarperCollins, she worked as a marketing and publicity associate at an independent press.

With a special place in her heart for Latinx and queer stories, Carolina is excitingly building a list that reflects the diverse world around us and that will allow readers to feel seen in the books they read—a feeling that she rarely experienced in her childhood.

In her spare time, she is a Mentorship and Retention Committee Co-Director at People of Color in Publishing, a member of the Representation Matters Mentor Program’s reading committee, and a former Mentorship Co-Director at Latinx in Publishing. You can find her on Twitter at @pushthepanorama.