Board of Directors
President
Tiffo | Fanbound Books
Tiffo joined Renegade in March of 2021, after having made a few fanbindings and searching to find out who else had this idea of making fic into books. Tiffo has been a member of the Renegade volunteer team since its inception, leading the teams for the Renegade in person biannual retreat, the FFWAD event, and serving on the Bindery moderation team, as well as being a mod for the volunteer server.
Tiffo has been in fandom since a love of the X-Files in the mid 1990s and has enjoyed gathering new fandoms to add to their basket over the last few decades. Tiffo loved having the chance to create with fellows obsessives and build friendship and community through love of similar interests. Because of this they have volunteered with a number of fandom groups and nonprofits in the last decade to help continue the work of building fannish communities, both in person and online.
They are very excited to continue the work they started in 2023 to set up Renegade as a non-profit community resource and help to lay the ground work for many years of Fanbinding fun!
Vice President
Robin | Robin’s Egg Bindery
Long-time Aquarius, first-time antiquarian, Robin joined Renegade in 2021 with an insatiable desire to see her favorite fics fully realized into books. A writer, fanartist, and fandom organizer in her own right previous to Renegade, she began her start in the heyday of the Livejournal-era; joining Renegade felt like the promised return to the roots of her fandom experience.
Robin has spearheaded a number of volunteer efforts, but primarily focuses on events, as she believes they are the lifeblood of the community. She currently serves as a mod for the Renegade Exchange, Binderary, and the Retreat; she also serves as a mod for the California satellite server, and assists in organizing in-person events, including the California Mini-Exchange and meetup.
When she's not crying over Spirk, Sterek, Irondad or any other untold number of fandoms, Robin can be found burst-reblogging on Tumblr dash, gaming with friends, or creating meaningful chaos in the Discord.
Treasurer
Cactus | Cactus River Press
Cactus has been active in Renegade since 2021, and has served as moderator in Renegade California Discord server since its inception in 2022. Her fandom involvement spans almost 30 years, and more recently includes making her first fan bound book in 2021 with the help of Renegade community.
Cactus is dedicated to developing best fiscal practices for Renegade that would ensure its longevity and continued service to the community. Cactus holds an accounting degree and has over 10 years of experience working in financial audit and tax accounting. She previously served as Treasurer for another nonprofit organization, where she played a central role in establishing 501c3 status for a 60 year old organization.
Cactus loves to spend her time reading fanfiction, playing videos games, and hiking.
Secretary
Æther | ÆtherealPress
Æther is a Minnesota-based fanbinder who has been active in fandom since 2002, and began bookbinding in June 2020. She is an inaugural member of the Renegade Bindery, and the instigator (and lead moderator) of the annual Renegade Exchange project, which has bloomed over the last six years to span more than 100 individuals across nearly a dozen countries. She also moderates the Great Lakes regional server, and can often be spotted bouncing between the majority of the other regional servers as she visits Renegade members across the globe.
Æther has been a member of the Renegade Bookbinding Guild since its inception, and is passionate about making bookbinding accessible both physically and financially, and also in terms of education and outreach. She strongly supports the "fandom is free" mindset, and supports the gift economy.
Æther is largely self-taught, but she has taken classes in marbling, box making, and leather binding from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Austin Book Arts Center, and Dimitris Koutsipetsidis in Athens, Greece, among others. She has bound fanfiction in more than 30 separate fandoms, as well as works in the public domain. Her bound work can be found under the Æthereal Press imprint.
Public Affairs Director
Desmothene | Celestial Sphere Press
Desmothene has been a member of Renegade since February 2021, when she started her bookbinding journey. As part of the Renegade volunteer crew, Des has worked on several projects, including as a discord mod for the main server and for Renegade Asia; participating at HavenCon and moderating Renegade’s first in-person panel event; development of the Renegade Manifesto, the Renegade Code of Conduct, misconduct review board procedures, and the new Renegade Guild bylaws; and serving as team lead for the translations team. She binds under the imprint Celestial Sphere Press and is currently wallowing in the Star Wars prequels fandom. Des first wrote fic in 2010 (and had her mother for her first beta reader), and she has bounced around many fandoms since then, with notable excursions into Temeraire, Log Horizon, Sherlock, Hannibal, and cnovel fandoms prior to Star Wars. No fandom is ever dead to Des!
Volunteer Director
Aliya | Gilded Fletching Press
Aliya arrived in the Renegade Bindery Discord on day one and has never looked back. From joining the Discord mod team three months in to helming the annual census of the Bindery, she’s been here the whole time! Aliya leads the Historian volunteer team in tracking event stats and archiving data about Renegade Bindery and what we do! Taking a peek at the 4000+ AO3 bookmarks Aliya has carefully tagged with word counts, you’ll find Supernatural, Lucifer, Megamind, Miraculous Ladybug, Leverage, and Doctor Who topping the list, but her taste for good worldbuilding fic means she’s constantly meandering through new fandoms! Depending on the day, you can find Aliya watching linguistics YouTube videos, playing D&D, or making cool spreadsheets.
Community Director
Rhi | Fantail Press
Rhi joined Renegade in 2022. They started volunteering with Renegade in the same year after coordinating a horrifically large group order for bookcloth and they maintain they have no regrets. Rhi is now a moderator for the Group Buy (NO REGRETS) and California satellite servers, and was also a moderator for the 2025 Retreat and looks forward to supporting the next one. Their fandoms are wide and varied, though they’re currently enmeshed in Heated Rivalry after being dragged in kicking and screaming. In their free time, Rhi likes to play with spreadsheets, coo over cute animals, and forcibly subscribe people to Bird Facts.