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.