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About Me
The Full Story
Aneka Bailey, the youngest of three, was born on July 30th, 1991 on an Airforce Base located in Japan. Her family spent six years overseas after her birth before relocating to Fayetteville, North Carolina. Due to her father’s military employment, she often finds herself intrigued and inquisitive about other cultures, people in these cultures, and the language they use. She always finds herself learning something new and finding ways to appreciate or share the knowledge she’s gain with those around her, which can be seen in her writing.
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In conjunction with her fascination with culture, her love of literature and writing blossomed, too. It was at a young age that she started writing creatively and would read for fun with her mother’s encouragement. It wasn’t until the age of twelve, which is when her family relocated to Marietta, GA, that she knew writing was something she ultimately wanted to do. She started writing small sayings and quotes, then begin to keep journals of short stories and poems. After graduating high school, Aneka finished three stories and posted them to various writing sites where she encountered a mentor that helped teach her some minor editing skills that she employed during her first few semesters in college while studying various creative careers such as photography.
However, English isn’t the only subject she found interest in. Her first few months in college, she took art classes to gain a degree to become a photographer, however, her mother would ask how she planned on making a living and encouraged Aneka to contemplate a career path that was more stable. It was this conversation that encouraged Aneka to focus the strong interest she had in criminal justice and in 2015 she obtained her criminal justice degree from Kennesaw State University. During her last few semesters, Aneka met Dr. Stan Crowder, who emphasized the importance of writing, investigating, and accurately documenting and notating in the criminal justice field.
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In her final semester, she discovered she was pregnant and had to decide whether she wanted to enter the criminal justice field or make a career change. With her interest in creative writing still prevalent, she decided to go back to school to obtain a degree in English. Due to accumulated credits, Aneka was able to complete the program quickly, while being accepted in an accelerated program that allowed her to earn Graduate and Undergraduate credits simultaneously. With that, Aneka graduated with her second degree in 2019 and fully entered into the Graduate program.
While in the graduate program, Aneka accepted the role of Graduate teaching assistant. In this role, she started working as an English tutor and assisted students in improving their writing skills and connections to assignment guidelines. This role, and shadowing another first year composition instructor, Aneka prepared to teach her first two English courses to First year college students.
In her classroom, Aneka focused on using technology, social media, and other digital media to connect with students and teach them how to properly research, synthesize, and writing about the information they gathered on their chosen topics. While teaching, Aneka worked on a creative capstone project that focused on the horror elements of cultural urban legends and cultural erasure. By the end of the semester, Aneka had a completed script for the pilot episode of a show related to urban legends and a manuscript to publish.
In addition to completing her capstone, Aneka joined the Herstory Fellows cohort to learn how to document and write a memoir, while facilitating a workshop encouraging others to do the same. Further, Aneka also enrolled in Google’s UX Design Certificate Course, which she has almost completed.
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Aneka plans to enter the UX design field as a UX writer and use the skills she’s gathered along the way to better support her future team members and improve user experience for others.
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