Hello, I'm Courtney! I'm a woman (she/her/hers) living in Seattle, WA. I’m currently on a sabbatical to pursue personal interests but was previously a Software Engineer on Microsoft's Azure Stream Analytics from September 2019 to July 2023. I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science & and a second major in Computational Mathematics (physics track) from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach in May of 2019 (Cum Laude + Honors Program).

Before full-time employment, I interned at Microsoft in 2016, 2017, and 2018 (initially as an Explore Intern, then twice as a Software Engineer Intern), and previously worked on SpaceX's Landing Legs team; Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk team; and at Carnegie Mellon University as a Robotics Intern for Near Earth Autonomy. On my college campus, I wrote and managed grants for the Women's Engineering Institute; tutored students in math, the sciences, and career development; and engaged in research. In March of 2018, I won the US Congress' Goldwater Scholarship.

I'm interested in art and intersectional equity in the arts and sciences. I enjoy reading plays and sometimes write personal essays and criticism. In early 2013, I wrote and published the first version of the Wikipedia article on Simone Biles (I also met my husband on Wikipedia.) I currently moonlight as a freelance grant writer and have won and managed north of $450,000 from over 25 grants. I most recently contracted for South End Stories: an anti-racist, trauma-informed, South Seattle-based arts education non-profit. I completed a Certificate in Grant Writing through Seattle Central College in February 2021.

I do my best to remain aware of my privileges and am committed to giving, even (especially) when there is no personal benefit. I also recognize and admit that I fail at this as often as any other well-intentioned person. As a high school senior with both immense financial need and great-on-paper ‘merit’ achievements, I won a number of the nation's most competitive college scholarships in 2014 and 2015. I now spend much of my free time helping women, minority, and underserved students (including but not limited to students experiencing food or housing insecurity, students living with disabilities, nontraditional students, students who are or were incarcerated, and student veterans) navigate the high school standardized testing process; the college admissions process; the internship search and selection process; and/or the hiring and negotiation process.