Modern Work: a podcast about how we work today Katherine Conaway - consultant, writer & traveler

Dustin Johnson is a software engineer and cofounder who started his career working at the Space & Missile Systems Center in California, Boeing, a drone company & the government, and then his startup — which recently closed a Series C and is now valued at a half billion dollars.

Jessica is a brand alchemist, working to advance the goals and vision of companies through brand stories that resonates both internally and externally. Jessica has worked with nonprofits and design agencies, and she freelanced remotely while traveling with Remote Year in 2016. She now works at an Africa-first startup helping place software engineers.

Martin Smith is a Site Reliability Engineer for HashiCorp, a remote-first company that solves development, operations, and security challenges in Cloud infrastructure. Martin previously worked in software engineering at Rackspace and the University of Florida. In 2016, with his remote job at Rackspace, Martin spent a year traveling the world with Remote Year.

Maya Yette is a recovering lawyer turned operations and strategy professional. She grew up in a suburb of Washington DC, studied communications and journalism, and has a law degree from Harvard University. After working at a DC corporate law firm, she traveled with Remote Year and worked at Travel Noire. Now based back in DC, she works at Choice Hotels.

Jono Lee is a product designer and engineer who enjoys building products people love. Jono has been working with computers since he was a teenager, founded 2 startups after college, was a product designer at Disqus, and has started another company, Wanderium, a smart all-in-one travel assistant.

Tarryn Marcus is the Director of Demand Generation for an XR technology startup by day and CEO of her own sales technology startup by night. She’s been interested in business, marketing, and entrepreneurship since high school, and she’s worked remotely for most of her career.