Board of Directors

Farron 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. Farron serves on the ACES: The Society for Editing DEI committee and led the task force that created the ACES Guide for New Editors. Farron previously developed an editorial internship program in collaboration with Andrea Klingler. 

Farron 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. Farron 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). 

Farron 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/her) came to freelance editing by way of a 12-year career spent in military technical editing. A week after earning her Certificate in Editing from the University of Washington–Seattle in June 2021, she opened the doors to Sage Editing. Obsessed with getting in on the ground floor of story creation, she completed her Certificate in Developmental Editing of Fiction through Club Ed Freelancers in May 2025. 

Shannon is a fiction story coach and developmental editor specializing in LGBTQIA+ contemporary romance and contemporary detective thrillers (especially those featuring queer protagonists!). She also offers  fiction manuscript evaluations to aid authors in building a solid draft before they start the editing process. She has an equal obsession with good writing, and longs to help writers improve their craft through fiction and nonfiction line-editing and copyediting.

A 2024 ACES: The Society for Editing Richard S. Holden Diversity Fellow and multi-VCON presenter, Shannon continues to pursue professional development opportunities through conferences, workshops, and courses. She is a member of Contemporary Romance Writers, and recently presented at their virtual conference as well. She also hosts weekly focused writing sprint sessions to encourage members in continuing their publishing journeys.

Three dogs make sure she doesn’t merge with her desk chair by demanding multiple walks a day. Lavender incense and a nice cocktail of medications keep her demons at bay. In her free time, she writes flash fiction and short stories for future publication, is in a solid relationship with her Kindle, and makes up for every nap she ever skipped as a child. Shannon lives with several neurodivergent diagnoses and is a vocal advocate of mental health support and awareness.

 Stephi Cham (she/her) has loved stories all her life. She is an editor by day and night, currently serving as Editor at Houston Methodist Hospital, Copy Editor for peer-reviewed journal Approaches, and Secretary on the board of directors of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association. Her work is driven by a lifelong passion for storytelling, accessibility, and ethical practice, with a focus on communication shaped by compassion and clarity. Her work at Houston Methodist advances the field of arts in health, informed by both her editorial experience and her background as a board-certified music therapist.

Stephi received her MA in Publishing, with an editorial concentration, from Rosemont College. In the past few years, her writing has been published in Strange Horizons, Publishers Weekly, JAMA, and Journal of Medical Humanities, and her series Great Asian Americans was published in 2018 by Capstone Press. She previously served as Chief Copy Editor at Student Media Company, Editorial Intern at Sundress Publications, and Fiction Editor at Rathalla Review. 

She spends her limited free time attempting to multi-task between singing, creating guitar tabs, and researching miscellaneous topics.

Dr. Cathy Hannabach (she/her) is the founder and CEO of the academic editing and indexing agency Ideas on Fire, where she helps interdisciplinary academics write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds. Passionate about interdisciplinary indexing and editing, she leads a global team helping scholars make an impact.

She hosts the Imagine Otherwise podcast, highlighting those bridging art, activism, and academia in the service of social justice. Author of Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms and Book Marketing for Academics, her research and commentary appear in outlets including New Learning Times, Cultural Politics, the BBC, Women and Performance, Contra*, Social Text: Periscope, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Dismantle Magazine.

She lives in New Jersey, where in her spare time you can find her strolling through nature preserves and botanical gardens, cooking up a storm, or nerding out over plants and fungi.