JoAnn L Chambers

I started my career right out of high school in the printing industry, learning typography and graphic arts through apprenticeships with master teachers in production houses, print publishing, and advertising companies. Back then, people didn't do their own typesetting, so they came to professional graphic houses and agencies. I was fortunate to have good teachers and business mentors along the way who taught me things as I went along. When the internet started, I got into web development immediately and learned very quickly how to market on the web. My husband was a composer who recorded under the name Shapeshifter in the sound healing realm, and I was able to take his music and turn it into a million-dollar business as we were ramping up, all before people stopped buying music. That marketing background combined with my creative background means I can take anybody's idea and vision and turn it into something that draws attention to people, whatever the purpose might be. For the last decade, I've primarily focused on video editing, and I still do some web development work, but mostly video content creation for YouTube and corporate clients. I also create videos that teach meditation and sound healing for my own projects. I've been in virtual reality development since 2021, and I teach meditation and spiritual concepts in VR, where I've found people become real quicker and have more authentic relationships because they drop all the judgment. I meet with groups of women in tech every week in VR, usually 40 or 50 of us from all over the planet, working at all different levels whether they're builders, admin people, or corporate people. The VR industry is changing rapidly and ties in with AI, and it's going to interface with every corporate infrastructure as it continues.