Rachel Goldeen was a young child during the height of the Smalltalk era at Xerox PARC. Her older sister, Marian Goldeen, was one of the main Smalltalk guinea pigs, working at Xerox PARC for three years in her early teens. Rachel initially pursued physics, then typesetting, photography, insurance sales, and chemistry, before eventually finding her true career home as a software engineer with a love of usability.
