Hello there! 👋 I’m Ann, thanks for dropping by. I’m a creative coder and empathetic communicator with a boundless curiosity! My meandering career path includes programming marine navigational software for cargo ships in the Netherlands 🚢 and teaching computer science at a diverse public high school in sunny Pasadena, CA 👩🏻‍🏫.

  • 🌎 I grew up in southeast Alaska and currently call New Hampshire home.
  • 🛼 I love learning new things: my latest is roller skating! I’m VERY bad, but I’m trying and it’s fun!
  • ⛵ A few of my random interests include tall ships, old books and maps, ghost stories, and broadside ballads.

Random jobs I’ve had include:

  • Commercial fisherman
  • Movie theatre employee
  • Packing pie crusts and cream horns in a pastry factory in the Netherlands
  • Strawberry picker in Denmark
  • Barista
  • Soap-making supply warehouse worker
  • Grocery store bakery/deli worker (I made the donuts—and, yes, injected the stuff into filled donuts)
  • Payless Shoesource, at the mall (RIP)