Kristen Ivanetich (she/her) is a queer San Francisco Bay Area native and parent, collaborator, and optimist. She’s a communications leader with over 25 years of creative, corporate, and technical writing and editing experience at Wells Fargo, PeopleSoft, Sunset Magazine, and various software and publishing companies. She holds a degree in English from San Francisco State University. As mother of two brilliant young adults, she served on the Everett Middle School PTSA board and engaged in the Lowell High School PTSA. When she isn’t defending the Oxford comma, Kristen enjoys reading, traveling, spending time with loved ones, and replenishing her soul along the Northern California coast.