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Board Directors
Anh Pham (President) started drawing fanart of the manga Crest of the Royal Family when they were in primary school, although it would take them several years to stumble into their first time reading a doujinshi or a fanfic. Anh is a Vietnamese fan who often has their interests piqued by their favourite characters in DC, their beloved and niche video games, or Asian media such as Japanese manga and Chinese web-novels.
English is Anh’s second language. They also learnt some Cantonese Chinese from their family over the years, enough to start reading Chinese fanfic years before they started using AO3 in 2013. Prior to joining the OTW in 2022 as a volunteer for the Fanlore Social & Media Outreach team, they also considered positions in Team Vietnamese of the Translation Committee or Chinese language track of the Tag Wrangling Committee. Now besides their current role in the Fanlore Committee, they are also an Open Doors Import Assistant.
Outside of the OTW, they studied Digital and Visual Art, and they are a freelance artist. In addition, they work as a part-time chef at a local restaurant.
Elizabeth Wiltshire (she/her) first discovered fandom in early high school through the Bits of Ivory Pride & Prejudice archive. While she has never written a fanwork herself, she did learn HTML to create a naïve yet heartfelt Buffy/Angel Geocities webpage, which has long since been lost to the sands of time. Elizabeth has been volunteering for the OTW as a tag wrangler since 2022, and was a chair of the Board Assistant Team (BAT) from its founding in 2023 until her election to the Board of Directors in 2025. When not involved in OTW work, she is a commercial manager in the public sector, plays the bassoon and contrabassoon, and enjoys swimming, hiking, camping, and playing too many video games. Between January and June 2025 she read 5,486,061 words of fanfic.
Harlan Lieberman-Berg (he/him) has been in the fandom community since he first stumbled on a Lord of the Rings slashfic — mostly as a reader and obsessive packrat, but occasionally as a fanbinder. He joined OTW to work as a tech volunteer for the Open Doors project in 2018 and has worked there (except for a one year hiatus) since. In early 2024, he was appointed as the Cybersecurity Delegate to the Board (CSD) and performed an audit on the security of the OTW, delivering the report to the Board in May 2025.
Outside of OTW, Harlan works as a consultant helping federal, state, and local governments make technology actually work for its users and for the public. He has worked in information security and software engineering for over two decades, including as a C-level executive and as a senior security architect. He is also a contributor to the free software and open source community, currently serving as a Debian Developer.
Qiao Chu, PhD (Secretary) (she/her) discovered fandom back in her elementary school days, almost 20 years ago. She stumbled upon a Cardcaptor Sakura fandom forum, and has been reading fanfics ever since. She was motivated by her love for fandom to learn English: she simply couldn’t wait for the translator to update her favorite X-Men fanfic, and decided to read the original text. This is how she discovered AO3 back in 2014.
She joined OTW as a tag wrangler in 2019. She is happy to see that she can make use of her lore knowledge and language abilities in her daily wrangling duties as well as to help users improve their filtering and reading experiences.
She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in Japan. She loves to spend her time outside the lab reading manga, playing video games and participating in fandoms: she sometimes writes, translates, edits, and always, always reads.
Rachel Linton (Vice President) (she/her) has been writing fanfiction for more than a decade. She wears a number of hats in the Organization for Transformative Works as a Tag Wrangler and Wrangling Supervisor, and Policy & Abuse Committee member. Off the internet, she’s a grad student, D&D player, and metaphorical hat collector.
Non-Director Officers
Yuechiang Luo (Treasurer)