“Don’t let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” Many people limit themselves with the fear of failure. That’s not the case of Jennifer Cortés. She was born in Puerto Rico and at the age of 13 moved to Tacoma, WA where she discovered a passion for web design. In 2001 after moving to Chesterfield, VA she attended the Chesterfield Technical Center and received a certificate in Digital Imaging. In her senior year of high school she took a class in web design and became the school’s webmaster.

Jennifer is a graduate from Atlantic College with a bachelors degree in Graphic Design. She has had many experiences in the web design industry such as being the webmaster for chibidesigns.com, a free graphics site for five years; webmaster of mireggaetoncristiano.com, ndgpr.com; and special events such as “Siempre Navidad”, a Christmas play, and “Me Flosharon”, a musical comedy show. She worked for Arteaga & Arteaga, an advertising agency, as a web designer and has worked in projects such as haztelaprueba.org, the City of Ponce website and others. Currently she works as a web design professor in Atlantic College.

Jennie, as her friends like to call her, has many dreams and goals for the future, one being able to work in different parts of the world where she can gain diverse knowledge and perspective in the industry of graphic design. Like Babe Ruth said, “you just can’t beat a person who doesn’t give up.” And that’s exactly how Jennie is, she loves challenges and new experiences.