Martha Wilkes is a designer at the U.S. Digital Service, a tech startup at the White House. Previously, she spent her career designing enterprise software for various private industries, from banking to statistical analysis to home health care. Martha holds a bachelor’s degree in music engineering from the University of Miami and a MFA in theater design from the University of Georgia, where she learned the Photoshop skills that helped her get her first job as a web designer. In her spare time, Martha makes glass beads in her home studio in Chapel Hill, NC.