Anne started Solavore™ after a successful career in hi-tech. She cut her teeth at Hewlett-Packard and managed operations planning for Steve Jobs at NeXT Computer during his Wilderness Years away from Apple. She later worked for 3Com Corporation, managing distribution and logistics for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while based in the UK.
Raised under a big sky in Wyoming, Anne is an expansive thinker, adventurer, and all-around Renaissance woman. A giver, not a taker. She studied music at Colorado State University, became a teacher, and earned a master’s degree in mathematics, taking up computer programming at the precise moment when women, despite their early contributions, dropped off the programming map.
During her corporate years, Anne fed her soul by mentoring young women and helping build schools in Africa. Today, she lives close to the bone, dividing her time between a sailboat and an off-grid island cottage in the Long Island Sound. Wind and sun play prominent roles in her life.
The original solavore, Anne believes passionately in solar cooking as a clean, joyful, liberating alternative to wood fires and grid-based fossil-fuel appliances.