Ana Rodriguez-Knutsen

Content Specialist
Ana Rodriguez-Knutsen is the Content Specialist for YWCA’s Marketing & Editorial team. She believes empathy, education, and communication are key to creating a kinder world, and this belief is at the heart of everything she does.

Ana graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Creative Writing and a minor in Gender, Women, and Sexuality. Her goal has always been to inspire compassion, curiosity and creativity in other people while simultaneously advocating for underrepresented communities.

Ana works hard to make information more accessible to a wider range of people and communities, because knowledge should be available to everyone. In her free time, Ana enjoys cooking, reading comic books, watching cartoons, trying new restaurants, and giving impromptu lectures about mythology and marine science.

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