On this page, most people talk about themselves in the third person.  Since the site policy (also first post) is in the first person, and since there’s something odd but satisfying about writing one’s own biography, this page is in the third person.


Ann Danylkiw has a BA in International Relations with a minor in Economics from Simmons College, and has completed coursework for (though does not hold) an MSc in Finance and Development Economics at the School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London.  She studied economics at the master’s level with the intention of being a journalist.

She is currently a PhD student at Goldsmiths College, University of London Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurialism.

Her PhD research centres on something like interactive digital storytelling and interactive documentary, maybe something involving learning. It touches on the disciplines of psychology, communication, ethnography, and non-linear, digital, interactive storytelling. She's using the degree as a highly practical experience.

Ann has studied several foreign languages-- Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Chinese-- but speaks none fluently.

Ann’s general interests include new economics and finance, sustainability, civil engineering, gender conceptualization and feminisms, social responsibility in media, communication norms, and Islamic finance.

Her private interests include reading particularly geeky books, modern Jane Austen fiction, modern art, and drama.  She is becoming an expert vegetarian cook.

N.B. Interests are fluid and subject to whim.

Her (current) obsessions are spiced hot-coco, finding good substitutes for graham crackers, El Naturalista shoes, tracking down the best vegetarian restaurant in town, and teaching herself the digital media side of journalism.

And she is an ardent believer in using parentheses, and that the best people are all a bit mad. 

Ann has lived briefly in Gevena, Switzerland, Amman, Jordan, San Francisco, California, Berlin, Germany and visited South Africa, Brazil, and Denmark, and at different points in her life was a resident of Chicago and Boston.  She is a legal and taxpaying resident of Birnamwood (see Wausau), Wisconsin.

She divides her time between London, Berlin, and Central Wisconsin.