Jen Simmons
About
Jen Simmons is a graphic designer, web developer, educator
and speaker. She is known for her expertise in web standards,
such as HTML and CSS. She worked for Mozilla as a web developer advocate
and later worked for Apple.
Simmons has a BA in Sociology from Gordon College in 1991 and graduated from Temple University in 2007 with an MFA in Film and Media Arts. She is a designer to print pieces and live performances. This includes projection and lighting design work.
In 2013 she joined the responsive images community group one of the world wide web consortium. While working for Mozilla in 2016, she deisigned the firefox browser's grid inspector. Simmons has been a developer advocate at Apple for the web developer experience team for WebKit and Safari since 2020.
Simmons is a member of the CSS working group created by the W3C since 2016. She joined CCS WG when working for Mozilla and continued as an Apple employee. She helped prepare and communicate Css grid layout specification (level 1 and 2), CSS containment module (level 3), CSS shapes module level 1, she was an editor on CSS box sizing module level 4 and on CSS grid layout level 3.