Board of Directors

Vee White (they/them) started editing in 2003, specializing in medical content since 2008. They are committed to furthering conscious, inclusive language and to creating mentorship opportunities—especially for those of marginalized identities. Vee serves on the ACES: The Society for Editing DEI committee and led the task force that created the ACES Guide for New Editors. Vee previously developed an editorial internship program in collaboration with Andrea Klingler. 

Vee was an inaugural member of the Diversity & Inclusion Assessment Task Force for the American Medical Writers Association and has sat on the board of their local civic association. Vee first became involved with social justice activism in 2002, eventually joining the Philadelphia-based Riders Against Gender Exclusion (RAGE; a trans activist group that advocated to remove gender stickers from transit passes) and Reclaim's Mass Liberation Taskforce (focused on racial justice). 

Vee lives and works with disability and chronic illness, loves hiking and outdoor adventures with their spouse, and has three rescue cats who are perpetually getting into scrapes.

Shannon Scott (she/they) came to freelance editing by way of a 12-year career spent in military technical editing. After earning her Certificate in Editing from the University of Washington-Seattle, she opened the doors to Sage Editing. Obsessed with getting in on the ground floor of story creation, Shannon is a fiction developmental editor specializing in LGBTQIA+ romance and military, police, and espionage thrillers. 

She has an equal obsession with good writing, and longs to help writers improve their craft through fiction writing coaching, fiction manuscript evaluations, and nonfiction line-editing and copyediting. Four dogs make sure she doesn’t merge with her desk chair. Lavender incense and a nice cocktail of medications keep her demons at bay. Shannon lives with several neurodivergent diagnoses and is a VERY vocal advocate of mental health support and awareness.

Stephi Cham (she/her) has loved stories all her life. She is an Editor at Houston Methodist Hospital, a freelance editor specializing in speculative fiction and select nonfiction, and author of the Great Asian-Americans series (Capstone Press). Her work in publishing focuses on communicating with compassion and clarity, enhancing information accessibility, and providing ethical guidance to new authors and editors. 

Her writing has been published in Strange Horizons, Publishers Weekly, JAMA, and Journal of Medical Humanities. She spends her limited free time reading, rock climbing, and singing.

Cody Sisco (he/him) is an author, editor, publisher, and literary community organizer. His LGBT psychological science fiction series includes two novels thus far, Broken Mirror and Tortured Echoes. He is a freelance editor specializing in genre-bending fiction and an editor for Running Wild Press. 

In 2017, he co-founded Made in L.A. Writers, an indie author co-op dedicated to the support and appreciation of independent authors. His startup, BookSwell, is a literary events and media production company dedicated to lifting up marginalized voices and connecting readers and writers in Southern California and beyond. He serves as a Co-Executive on the Board of Governors for the Editorial Freelancers Association and as a board member at APLA Health.

D. Scott (they/them) works with academics who need to get their writing out of draft and into the world. D.’s academic background is in biology (BA), law (JD), and human geography (PhD); through D. Scott Edits they edit in the social sciences, humanities, and law. With Dr. Thoko Kamwendo, they also run the online course “Conscious and Inclusive Language in Academic Work.” 

They believe that every scholar deserves the support of an editor, especially those who have to fight to claim their space in an academic landscape that wasn’t made for them. They are probably knitting right now. 

  Krishna Kumar Venkitachalam (he/him), who prefers to go by Dr. KK or Kris, is a surgeon turned editor based in Mumbai, India. He is the Innovation Officer for Crimson Interactive (Enago), and works as a publications consultant and conducts touring workshops and webinars on academic writing and publications for researchers and scientists.

He is also a musician and a multi-instrumentalist, writing and performing with several acts. He loves anything furry and friendly and loves reading sci-fi and modern literature. He is a tech nerd and is always on the lookout of new things to learn!