Katie Bechtold

Although I'm quiet and tend to live in my head, connecting with other people in a genuine, intimate way is one of the most fulfilling things that I can find to do, when I manage it. I like to explore new social structures including hackerspaces, which I've found are great places for learning useful skills and meeting awesome people. Apropos of social structures, social justice is important to me, so I try to engage with issues of race, gender, disability, class, and other social justice issues within the geek/hacker/open source community as my time and ability allow.

My educational background is in computer science, and my technical interests include embedded systems, spacecraft communications, amateur radio, and information security. My less technical interests include sewing, piano, science fiction, embroidery, Japanese language, psychotherapy, human behavioral evolution, spacecraft archaeology... in other words, too many to list. When it's temperate outside I like to go kayaking, bicycling, or stargazing. I'm usually trying to learn about a dozen new things at the same time, reading a pile of books, and slowly progressing - or procrastinating - on countless personal projects.