Rachel was raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains where she learned goose wrangling and Photoshop. After watching Chasing Amy at the tender age of 14, she started making comics which helped her escape rural poverty and eventually lead to a career in web development. Now she lives with her husband in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she is training to become stronger by mastering Ruby and JavaScript.
Rachel loves studying birds and Japanese and enjoys boots, tea, orchids, making comics, and helping people learn.
Speak to me about…
- Speaking at your conference
- Working on cutting edge animation projects for iOS and modern browsers.
Email me at aloha at rachelnabors dot com
Strengths
- User Interface design and implementation
- Extensive background with cartooning, illustrators, and animation
- CSS/Sass/Compass
- Telling stories with words and pictures
- Calming angry geese
Street Cred
- Self-proclaimed rival of Brad Colbow
- Kim Yale Award for Best New Female Talent in Comics 2007
- Gives talks all over the place about web design, comics, and front-end development. Speaking of which…
Past and Future Speaking Arrangements
2013
- WebVisions NYC
- WebVisions Portland + Workshop
- Fluent, San Francisco
- jQuery Portland
- WebVisions Barcelona + Workshop
- CSS Summit, online
- The Front End Brothers, Bologna
2012
- Midwest UX Chaired panel on Women in UX and gave an Ignite-style talk on Wabi-sabi and the beauty of imperfection
- Blog Her Chaired a panel on Telling Stories with Pictures: Incorporating Graphics, Cartoons, and Iconography.
- edUi Giving talk about telling stories with words and pictures: web design meets sequential art.
- CSS Dev Conference Showing people how to make Music Videos with CSS3 and HTML5.
2011
- NC Dev Con Gave talk on Comics and Design: How to tell stories with pictures and words.
- WordCamp Raleigh Gave presentation on Simple Steps to WordPress Security.