My name is Karen Rustad. I was born in Sunnyvale, CA; grew up in Edina, MN; graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, CA in 2008 with a degree in Media Studies; lived after college in Arlington, VA; moved to Atlanta, GA to work with OpenHatch, a startup in the Shotput Ventures summer incubator program; moved to Philadelphia, PA to continue working with OpenHatch after the incubator finished; and finally moved home to Edina, MN after I ran out of money.
Did you get all that? Here, have a diagram:
My next move will be to Berkeley, CA, where I will join the class of 2012 in UC Berkeley’s Master’s of Information Management and Systems program. Yeah, I move too often.
More about me:
- Birth year: 1986
- Myers-Briggs: INTP
- Interests: Meteorology, webcomics, applied game mechanics, intellectual property law and policy, indie rock, gardening, politics, gender norms, travel, entrepreneurship sans dick-measuring and stupid buzzwords
- Skills: Drawing, video editing, CSS design, reading, writing, singing (alto pride!), piano, driving stick-shift, vegetarian cooking
- Favored platform: Mac, baby. My dad was an Apple employee for more than a decade; I grew up with Kid Pix, Reader Rabbit, and Hyperstudio. I plan to get a Linux laptop for grad school, though.
