Utah Kate Newman

Utah Kate Newman has over 10 years of professional experience. Utah Kate began their career in 2008 as a Teaching Assistant for the University of Kentucky Biology Department, where they successfully taught four thirty-student sections of General Biology Lab for non-majors, Principles of Integrative Biology (Lab) I and Principles of Integrative Biology (Lab) II. In 2011, they became a Science Instructor for Brightmont Academy, where they developed and implemented science curriculum for one-on-one high school instruction. From 2014 to 2015, they worked as a Summer of Code Intern for Rails Girls Summer of Code, where they worked with mentors, coaches, and other engineers in Seattle and Germany to troubleshoot code for diaspora*, an open source, distributed social networking site. From 2015 to 2017, they worked as a Web Developer for Northwest Independent Ruby Development (NIRD LLC), where they worked on small, Agile teams to build views for Ruby on Rails applications for various clients. Since 2020, they have been a Software Engineer, Frontend for brightwheel.

Utah Kate Newman has a diverse educational background. Utah Kate received a Javascript Development Certificate from General Assembly in 2018. Utah Kate then earned a Master's degree in Biology from the University of Kentucky between 2008 and 2011. Utah Kate also obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology from The Evergreen State College between 2004 and 2007. Finally, they received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History from the University of Puget Sound between 1992 and 1996.