After a ten-year career in the defense and high-tech industries, Johnna left the engineering world to become a full-time artist and woodworker.
Johnna was born in eastern Massachusetts and attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her BS in Computer Science and her MSECE in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is a member of the American Association of Woodturners, the Southern Maine Woodturners, Seacoast Woodturners (NH), the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Geological Society of America.
Johnna and her husband live in Sebago, Maine.