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 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
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Copyeditor

Lisa Sinclair
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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