As editor-in-chief of Strategic News Service, Sally Anderson serves as SNS newsletter and Special Letters editor, production manager for SNS Future in Review (FiRe and FiReGlobal) conferences and SNS websites, and manager of SNS publications, including conference books and marketing, international Dinner events, and Project Inkwell.
As sole proprietor of Red Pen Productions since 1990, Sally has been a book manuscript editor and Web content advisor, writer, and/or editor for clients including the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum (Communication Arts Award of Excellence, 2003), Peabody Essex Museum (Yin Yu Tang: One Show Interactive Merit Award, 2003), msn.com, Seattle Weekly, Microsoft Press, secondstory.com, Miami Aviary, Minneapolis Zoo, Sasquatch Books, Seattle Arts Commission, Aldus Corp., KCTS magazine, Bay Press, and Washington magazine.
In 1997, Sally became the first executive editor at Corbis Productions, chaired by Bill Gates, after serving independently as lead editor, associate producer, and writer for the award-winning CD-ROM Leonardo da Vinci. She created Corbis' first corporate style guide and co-produced history, travel, educational, and pop-culture Web features, working with experts in photography, film, multimedia, and technology, including the Ansel Adams Trust, Ken Burns, David and Peter Turnley, Chris Rainier, Roger Ressmeyer, and Curtis Wong.
From 1999 to 2001, Sally was part of a small editorial "hit" team hired by Amazon.com to launch and populate a series of content-rich Web stores.
In 2003, with poet Sam Hamill, Sally was co-editor of the anthology Poets Against the War (Nation Books). She served as lead editor of the PAW website (founded by Hamill in January 2003) and subsequently joined the PAW board of advisors. In 2005, she was creative consultant for the documentary Voices in Wartime (director, Rick King; producer, Andrew Himes), which led to today's Voices in Wartime Education Project.
Sally holds a double BA in Literature and Fine Arts from the Evergreen State College, with adjunct studies in Psychology, Classics, Political Affairs, Fiction Writing, Fine Metals, and Ceramics, from Monterey Peninsula College to the University of Massachusetts-Boston and Harvard University. She has an abiding interest in other cultures and languages and currently studies Italian.