Anne+Lenzini+Introduction



My name is Anne Lenzini. I was raised in Denver, Colorado, spent ten years in Seattle, Washington, and moved to New York just one year ago. I am transitioning from having taught AP Language and Composition to 11th ELA at Achievement First Brooklyn High School in Crown Heights. Technology has played an enormous role in my life. My mother is an entrepreneur in the world of technology and information, creating one of the first Integrated Library Systems. Her love for technology seeped into my home life, and I have many memories of playing typing games like Mavis Beacon on one of the earliest Macintosh models and spending hours sitting in front of the computer in middle and high school on AOL. I set-up a Facebook account before it was open to people outside of college campuses, kept-up a blog for two years, have owned and compared an Android and iPhone, all with constant encouragement from my mother. Seattle is a city rooted in technological innovation and most of my friends in the Northwest have worked or work for technology companies. I worked for a software start-up for four years, mostly doing remote training via webinar. My life partner is a programmer and attends CUNY Graduate School studying computational linguistics, which was the true inspiration for my move to New York. In other words, beyond my every-minute interactions with technology in forms of text messages, Facebook, email, etc., my very financial livelihood is based on technology. I'm a huge fan.

The story behind the picture featured here is rooted in technology. This is a picture of myself and a graduating senior from my place of employment taken by her mother. The alumni counselor at my school, whose job involves becoming friends with students on Facebook to keep track of them in college, came across the photo as it was posted as the student's profile picture. My initial reaction was to be completely honored that this student would feature me on her Facebook profile! My second thought was, "Did she intend for me to see this? Did she intend for me to see this via a colleague?" While my life is and was inundated with technology, I cannot imagine high school with social networking sites like Facebook available, ones that store and publicize photos of highs and lows. The changing realm of technology has altered the way in which we communicate so fundamentally and younger generations seem so much less concerned with issues around privacy. It's all a fascinating topic, and my motto is to embrace it rather than fight it.

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