{"id":2,"date":"2010-06-09T17:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T01:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:33:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/","title":{"rendered":"Who I am"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/coral_pumpkin_short_hair_square.png\" alt=\"A smiling white person with purple hair and a plaid shirt. There's a cockatiel napping on their shoulder.\" class=\"wp-image-1085\" style=\"width:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/coral_pumpkin_short_hair_square.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/coral_pumpkin_short_hair_square-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi, I&#8217;m Coral Sheldon-Hess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is me &#x27a1;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I dig birds, coffee, good user experience\/accessibility, data privacy, native plants, and autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My <a href=\"http:\/\/dale.sheldon-hess.org\">partner<\/a>, two cockatiels, two budgies, and I live within the unceded ancestral homeland of the On\u00f6ndowa&#8217;ga; this land is also known as western New York, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the work world I&#8217;m technology teacher, data analyst, web developer, and librarian with a spare masters degree in electrical and computer engineering. I pride myself on writing good documentation. I work and volunteer fully remotely now and for the foreseeable future, which is fine: I&#8217;ve been remote or working on projects with distributed teams since the mid-aughts. More details about my work experience are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/portfolio\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"741\">What I do<\/a> page or my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/csheldonhess\/my-cv\/blob\/main\/sheldon-hess_cv.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/csheldonhess\/my-cv\/blob\/master\/sheldon-hess_cv.pdf\">CV<\/a> (on GitHub).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my spare time I enjoy crafting, brewing up herbal remedies, reading, playing cozy video games, gardening, bicycling, and bird-watching. I make crocheted items, chainmaille jewelry, candles, painted rocks, and various things requiring a Cricut. Right now I&#8217;m trying (again) to learn to knit socks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you would like to pay me to teach an online workshop on tech or crafts, to speak at your virtual-friendly event, to make you an herbal salve or something out of chainmaille, or to help you with your website, please also feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/contact\/\">contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a rel=\"me\" href=\"https:\/\/kind.social\/@coral\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Coral Sheldon-Hess. This is me &#x27a1; I dig birds, coffee, good user experience\/accessibility, data privacy, native plants, and autumn. My partner, two cockatiels, two budgies, and I live within the unceded ancestral homeland of the On\u00f6ndowa&#8217;ga; this land is also known as western New York, USA. In the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who I am<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}