Dawn Wages
As a high schooler in North Carolina, software engineer, community organizer and 2021 RealLIST Engineers honoree Dawn Wages knew she wanted to have the most attractive MySpace profile. Learning how to code just came with making sure that happened.
“I would deck out my profile and fix up my friends’ profiles,” she told Technical.ly during her recent Slack AMA. “There was also a student club for Hip Hop Journalism and I created their website for them.”
Wages enjoyed learning more about coding during that time, but felt she wasn’t advanced enough, even in high school. When she learned about Adobe Dreamweaver from a classmate only to find out that she couldn’t afford the program, it was deflating.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
