(She is also on the board of the Spencer Foundation, which administers my fellowship).
"When I look at applicants for my fellowship, the artistic level has really improved," she says.
After my fellowship, I moved to Minneapolis to join Mike, who was working for General Mills.
In 1978, I moved from Boston to Los Angeles to begin my fellowship training.
"My fellowship year clarified more problems than solutions," writes one Code For America Fellow in a blog post.
Ironically I spent my fellowship photographing Bradford City football club, which had the terrible fire in 1985.
After I got to know him a little bit better during my fellowship I realised this was his way.
I'm afraid he might be calling to say that this method just isn't working: I'm going to have to drop out, forfeit my fellowship checks.
"Once I finish my fellowship in Cleveland, at one of the best hospitals in America, I hope there will be some doors opening for me," he said.
"When they set up AfH's office in the Bay Area, I was finished with my fellowship, so I went with them".
But I will lose a significant chunk of valuable time in my fellowship because I am pregnant and will take maternity leave during that period.
