Carlana Johnson is the Technology Director for Spotlight PA. Prior to joining the Spotlight PA team, Carlana worked as a Newsroom Product Engineer at The Baltimore Sun for Tribune Publishing, a Tech Lead for PBS, a web developer for The Atlantic, and the webmaster for her high school underground lit mag. Carlana has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Hawaii and is interested in looking at online publishing and full stack development from a critical perspective. Before becoming a software engineer, she worked as an educator for 9 years. She lives with her children in Baltimore.