The Ideas on Fire team
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Dr. Cathy Hannabach
Founder and CEO
Cathy Hannabach (she/her) is the founder and CEO of Ideas on Fire, where she helps progressive, interdisciplinary academics write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
In 2009, she founded Ideas on Fire to harness the collective expertise of interdisciplinary PhDs and provide the editing, indexing, and consulting help scholars need to create an impact.
Rachel Fudge
she/her
Editorial director and copyeditor
Sara Day
she/her
Editorial project manager
Summer McDonald
she/her
Developmental editor
Amber Riaz
she/her
Copyeditor
Ayesha Chari
she/her
Copyeditor
Stephanie Malak
she/her
Developmental editor
E. Alex Crawley
they/them
Developmental editor
Shazia Iftkhar
she/her
Developmental editor
Ursula Arends
she/her
Copyeditor
Megan Zid
she/her
Copyeditor
Emma Warnken Johnson
she/her
Indexer and developmental editor
Jacqueline Harvey
she/her
Copyeditor
E. Gale Greenlee
she/her
Developmental editor
Michelle Velasquez-Potts
she/her
Researcher
Catherine Fung
she/her
Developmental editor
Candida Hadley
she/her
Developmental editor and copyeditor
Dana Johnson
she/her
Copyeditor
Anna Gasha
she/her
Copyeditor
Marieke Krijnen
she/her
Copyeditor
Megan Milks
they/them
Developmental editor
Jah Elyse Sayers
they/them
Copyeditor
Morgan Genevieve Blue
she/her
Indexer and developmental editor
Jean Lee Cole
she/her
Developmental editor
Pedro Martin
he/him
Copyeditor
Akiko Yamagata
she/her
Copyeditor
Sheryl Kaskowitz
she/her
Copyeditor
Micha Rahder
she/her
Developmental editor
Karen Dewart McEwen
she/her
Developmental editor
Alyssa Wejebe
she/her
Copyeditor
Lisa Sinclair
she/her
Copyeditor
Sarah O'Brien
she/her
Developmental editor
Melanie Petcoff
she/her
Indexer
Elen Turner
she/her
Copyeditor
Olive Demar
she/her
Developmental editor
Jess Herdman
she/they
Indexer
Tala Khanmalek
she/they
Developmental editor
Eldes Tran
she/her
Copyeditor and indexer
Shuli Branson
she/they
Developmental editor
Laura Poole
she/her
Proofreader
Mia Uribe Kozlovsky
she/her
Developmental editor
Jacqueline Ly
she/her
Indexer and developmental editor
Furqan Sayeed
he/him
Developmental editor
Katie Quine
she/her
Marketing associate