Anne Barela

Engineer and Maker Anne Barela is currently a consultant for Adafruit Industries, LLC. She retired in 2018 as a senior Foreign Service Officer and Security Engineering Officer for the U.S. Department of State. Anne is a graduate of Whitman College (mathematics/physics) and the California Institute of Technology (electrical engineering). She has previously worked at Hewlett-Packard, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Boeing. An avid electronics enthusiast, she started with a workbench and Radio Shack parts in high school. Anne is the author of the books Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket as well as tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System at https://learn.adafruit.com/u/AnneBarela. She likes to work on microcontroller projects and retrocomputers and she's a space enthusiast who participated in the NASA Social program for Artemis 1. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/anne_engineer and on Mastodon at https://octodon.social/@Anneb.