Linet Huamán Velásquez is a Peruvian graphic designer and senior designer at Penguin Random House in New York City. Originally from Lima, she began her career in Peru before earning her BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts. Her cover work includes The XX Brain (a New York Times bestseller), Superbugs (International Bestseller), and Yes We Did with a foreword by Barack Obama. Linet is also a founding board member of the People of Color at PRH Employee Resource Group, where she advocates for representation, authenticity, and community in the workplace.
She lives in Harlem with her husband and her two little kids.