Open to Work

Sarah Bay is an exceptional communicator with a PhD in genetics and nonprofit experience in scholarly publishing at a professional scientific society. She is adept at transforming complex information into compelling written and visual narratives. She is skilled in developmental and substantive editing with a solid background in communications, marketing, and branding initiatives. She brings a multi-faceted understanding of academic research and peer review with perspectives as an author, peer reviewer, and member of an editorial office.

Sarah is eager to leverage her broad experience in a dynamic, mission-driven environment. She is open to freelance, contract, and full-time employment opportunities related to scholarly publishing, science communications, and nonprofit management.

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Sarah has a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harding University, and she did her Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Emory University, where she trained in Tamara Caspary's lab. Her dissertation focus was the intersection of Sonic Hedgehog signaling, cilia, cerebellar cancer, and a regulatory GTPase called Arl13b.

Having always loved science and words, Sarah spent the last year and a half of grad school working part-time as a science writer for the Genetics Society of America, writing for their blog, Genes to Genomes. After coming on board full time, she spent close to a decade working for the Society and the GSA Journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics.

Her role in a lean, mission-driven organization gave her a breadth of experience, and she completed work in scholarly publishing (including policy and strategy development), communications (including social media management and developmental & copy editing), conference and event programming, marketing and promotion (including content creation), and data analysis. Her experiences in academia made her certain that there is a more vibrant, inclusive, and equitable scientific enterprise out there. She is grateful to work in partnership with the Personal Genetics Education Project (PGED) and the Reclaiming STEM Institute on ways to realize that future through an NSF BIO-LEAPS funded project called CC-BRIDGE.

Sarah lives in Atlanta with her husband (an airline pilot who loves to cook), her son (a six-year-old who inherited her personality—for better or for worse), and her two cats. She also owns Sarah Bay Photography, LLC, which specializes in lifestyle, portrait, product, and brand photography.