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Member Spotlight: Eve Simon

This past May's annual education initiative to teach kids safe computing and web design (GROW - Girls Rock on the Web) was co-organized by this month's spotlight, Eve Simon, DCWW Outreach co-chair. Eve is really kid-focused, but she's also a kid at heart as you'll find out.

Around 1995, Eve got her start "through a weird set of circumstances," when she taught herself HTML and Photoshop. Eve says, "And I never looked back!" (Check out this nifty Flash movie you can "make" yourself that Eve developed: IHappen.com.) She currently works for K12, a new educational technology company, as an art director/designer for the visual arts curriculum. She has also worked for Simon and Schuster Higher Ed, the National Education Association, and AOL, among others.

Before joining the world of web divas (she has an MFA from Brandeis, BA in Philosophy from University of Pennsylvania), Eve used to be a theatrical lighting designer; she got to travel along the West and East Coasts doing lighting and having the occasional brush with fame. Once she worked with the playwright/director David Mamet, while helping produce his off-broadway play, "The Cryptogram". Apparently there was a bit of rivalry; Mamet held the highest score for Tetris on her laptop! Eve still manages to stay in the spotlight; this year she spoke at a local women's organization in Montgomery County and at Cybercamps at George Mson University about the technology and design industry.

There weren't too many kids in Eve's family, she's an only child. That seems to be a pattern. This October she is marrying Miki, her boyfriend of three years, father of Kaitlynn, "his 10-going-on-30 daughter." Eve and her fiancé are "major book hounds." She says, "we can spend a whole evening browsing in Borders or Barnes and Noble and be happy as pigs in mud." With a lot on her mind lately, it's no doubt that there are some fun web sites in her favorites list, including:

• Theknot.com for wedding stuff
• Washingtonpost.com and News.com for news junkies
• Creativepro.com and Communications Arts for designers
• Photodisc.com and Gettyone.com for stock photos

Contributed by Beth Archibald Tang

Curious to see who our previous member spotlights were? Check out our archives!

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