Kristin grew up in Illinois and moved to California in 2016. She has a BA in English with a minor in Psychology from Western Illinois University. Kristin’s previous jobs include writing tutor, elementary school teacher, and software engineer.
During her elementary school teaching days, she realized her love of technology and saw how engaging it was for her students. She started and supervised a computer coding club for 5th graders and a
FIRST Lego Robotics League
for middle school students. In 2015, she attended a web development bootcamp to learn more about software development.
Kristin enjoys going to conferences to learn new things. In 2016, she attended Google I/O in Mountain View, CA. During that conference, she was inspired to focus on developing virtual and augmented reality games using Unity.