I was born in a small town about 30 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line, frought with its share of social issues. My parents were not engineering-friendly, and

I was born in a small town about 30 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line, frought with its share of social issues. My parents were not engineering-friendly, and were surprised and relatively unprepared for a daughter interested in the sciences. You'd imagine I'd be older to have this story, but I was born in 86. Computers would rot out my soul and so I wasn't permitted to code. I started robotics with an after school program, got a scholarship to college, started CS in college at 18, got a job at NASA at 20 and worked my way up while finishing my degree. Upon graduation I couldn't find ethical work in robotics in the recession of '09 and returned to NASA. NASA decided to not return to the moon in the fall of '09. I wound up related to the web by working infrastructure for a large tech company, and eventually in startups via Hacker Dojo.