Valerie Luhman AndersonValerie Luhman Anderson, a native of Denver, Colorado, grew up in Northeast Iowa near the scenic Mississippi River Valley. She graduated from Drake University with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts, majoring in English while taking elective music courses. Se taught English in an Iowa high school, and after moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, was a staff assistant at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Programmed Instruction Library for two years. In pursuing an interest in design, she earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She spent a rewarding career as a contractor with the Department of Energy (DOE) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, serving as a project manager for development of technical materials for DOE and other government agencies. Read More Read Less