Jackie is a Software Engineer working on python and data related projects for CACI on a contract at The Library of Congress. Previously, she worked for The Washington Post on news applications. She is a lover of all things data, a pythonista, a djangonaut, and a computational social scientist in training. Jackie is a journalist by degree and a self-taught programmer. She is the founder of the PyLadies DC chapter and co-organizer for Django District and Geo Nerds DC. She lives in D.C. with her fiance and three dogs. Lastly, she does a pretty good impression of her Czech mother, who once admitted to knowing COBOL.