Member Profile: Jenna Lea Mauch
1. What do you do, and how long have you been doing it?
I am a web developer for the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive website. I have been on the team for a year, first starting out as an intern and then getting hired back after I graduated.
2. What was your first job?
My first job was working behind the scenes for my high school’s performing arts center. My current job is my first industry job!
3. Where did you complete your formal education?
I graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
4. How did you first get involved with ACM SIGGRAPH?
I was looking for an internship, and it turned out that the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive is located in BGSU and they happened to be looking for web developers. I joined the team and was able to go to my first SIGGRAPH conference, and just recently I was invited to be a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH History and Archive Committee.
5. What is your favorite memory of a SIGGRAPH conference?
Meeting new people and making deeper connections with those I already knew.
6. Describe a project that you would like to share with the ACM SIGGRAPH community.
I want others in the ACM SIGGRAPH community to be aware of the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive’s website. It provides a great resource for those in the community and also those interested in computer graphics history. I have been working to improve the accessibility and usability of the website so that anyone can access the information with ease.
7. If you could have dinner with one living or non-living person, who would it be and why?
I would have dinner with my grandma, who passed away when I was a toddler. I am often told that I act so much like her.
8. What is something most people don’t know about you?
I love insects. I even had a pet grasshopper when I was a kid!
9. From which single individual have you learned the most in your life? What did they teach you?
My mom is my number one teacher in life and has taught me most of my life skills.
10. Is there someone in particular who has influenced your decision to work with ACM SIGGRAPH?
Bonnie Mitchell, director of the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, is an amazing mentor and is the reason I am working with ACM SIGGRAPH. I wouldn’t be where I am without her help and I want to help serve a community that is an intersection of my interests in art and technology.
11. What can you point to in your career as your proudest moment?
I am not far in my career, but so far I am proud of the work I’ve done for the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive and that I was invited to be a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH History and Archive Committee.