About

About
Athena Web Design Studio provides web design and digitigal marketing services to businesses and professionals who want to launch or grow their online presence. Through our thoughtful approach, we consider web design through many angles including user experience, brand consistency, visual balance, and attention to detail.
Founder Kristin Stoddart

Kristin draws from her background in Studio Art and Public Relations to support people's work and services through web design and online marketing.
From an early age, Kristin had a love for creating. She attended a Waldorf school, which encourages the arts. In college, she excelled in her Studio Art classes, painting in particular. It wasn't until years later that she realized the small liberal arts college she attended didn't offer a graphic design department. After graduating, Kristin applied for jobs in any creative field that she would be qualified for including an apprenticeship at an interior decorative painting studio and an administrative job at an architecture firm. The former didn't materialize, and she was lucky to be offered the job at the architecture firm.
Kristin enjoyed working with designers, but after almost five years pivoted directions and accepted a job at a global management consulting firm in the PR department. Her mother was a journalist and her father was a business owner, so working with the media to help businesses succeed seemed like important work to her.
After three years, Kristin left the management consulting firm and moved from New York to Los Angeles. She took a break from the workforce to start a family and it was during this time that she began learning web design and graphic design. She designed her first website in 2014 and has been developing her craft ever since.