NEW
YORK, March 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic
(NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and
media company, today announced Cristina
Juvier has been named Chief People Officer. Based in
New York, this new role for the
company is designed to bring broad, strategic human resources
leadership across Scholastic to best support employees. Ms. Juvier
will lead Scholastic's human resources organization in the US as
well as serve as a global resource to bring best practices to
offices throughout the world with a focus on professional
development and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
initiatives. Effective April 25,
2022, she will report to Scholastic President and CEO
Peter Warwick. Senior Vice President
of Human Resources, Lindsey Cotter,
will newly report to Ms. Juvier.
"The timing is right for this new role as we build the company
for growth in a rapidly changing marketplace and pivot towards new
ways of working together cross-divisionally and globally," shared
Mr. Warwick. "I'm eager for us all to learn from Cristina who is an
experienced global executive and leader of transformative human
resources functions. With her, we will forge the right people
strategies, policies, and changes to enable Scholastic to deliver
on its mission even more effectively in the future."
"People are at the heart of every business and I'm energized by
all I've already learned about the passion of Scholastic
employees," noted Ms. Juvier. "Particularly as we re-emerge from
the pandemic, I look forward to supporting employees in our global
transition to a 'new normal,' helping to build a growth-oriented
organization, and ensuring professional growth and DEIB initiatives
continue to move forward."
Most recently, Ms. Juvier served as Head of Human Resources at
Reuters since 2019 and Head of Diversity & Inclusion for
Thomson Reuters as a whole since 2021. In these roles, she was
responsible for all aspects of human resources for the world's
largest international multimedia news provider with 2500
journalists in over 200 locations around the world. Ms. Juvier
began her career in corporate law and moved into human resources
management while working for AIG, where she was in the Latin America division before moving to work
on European and Emerging Markets business. She later came to
New York as Head of Human
Resources for the Chartis Latin America and Caribbean region and has also held leadership
roles at Cablevision and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ms. Juvier, a native Spanish
speaker, holds her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from
the University of Houston Law
Center.
About Scholastic
For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has
been encouraging the personal and intellectual growth of all
children, beginning with literacy. Having earned a reputation as a
trusted partner to educators and families, Scholastic is the
world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, a
leading provider of literacy curriculum, professional services, and
classroom magazines, and a producer of educational and entertaining
children's media. The Company creates and distributes bestselling
books and e-books, print and technology-based learning programs for
pre-K to grade 12, and other products and services that support
children's learning and literacy, both in school and at home. With
15 international operations and exports to 165 countries,
Scholastic makes quality, affordable books available to all
children around the world through school-based book clubs and book
fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail,
and online. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.
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