J.D. Hansen

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Location
Montana, USA
School
Goucher College, Towson University, Audubon Expedition Institute, Lesley University
Expertise
Recipe Tester, Intrepid Baker, Hobbyist Brewer
  • As an avid home chef and recipe tester for cookbook writers, J.D. Hansen is obsessed with "The Great British Baking Show" and often has her nose in J. Kenji López-Alt's book "The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science."
  • She is a beer snob (though she doesn't like IPAs — life is full of enough bitterness; she doesn't need it in her beer). Her partner is a home brewer, and they always have three beers on tap.
  • J.D. loves writing about and shooting photos of Vertical Harvest — a sustainable farming enterprise that focuses on hiring people with disabilities.

Experience

J.D. Hansen has been a journalist and photographer for more than two decades and has won national and regional awards for her reporting. She has worked in a variety of vocations and avocations, including building floats for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, caring for costumes for "Stars on Ice," and painting scenery for MTV. She became a staunch disability advocate after discovering her own challenges stemmed from an ADDled brain (ADHD). She is a recovering triathlete based in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. There, she enjoys everything the area offers, including backcountry skiing, cycling, and taking her "office" outdoors.

Education

J.D. Hansen has a bachelor's in education.
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