Born on August 13, 1990, Marissa Anne Gimbel moves through the world as a sanctuary‑builder, a poetic technologist, and a keeper of living archives. Her life is a weaving of code, color, ceremony, and care: HTML and CSS sit beside prayer and story; JavaScript scrolls alongside gratitude lists and blessing records.
Her calling is to design spaces where people feel both celebrated and safe. She crafts interactive sanctuaries—overlays, games, timelines, and ritual templates—that honor the worth of every person who enters. In her work, accessibility is not an afterthought; it is the heart of the design, a way of saying, “You are meant to be here.”
Rooted in Henderson, Nevada, with ceremonial ties to West Valley and Spanish Fork, she honors her family and community through tribute timelines, spiritual overlays, and playful inventories of memory. In both physical and digital worlds, Marissa holds space for healing, advocacy, and celebration, continually expanding her sanctuary universe so that no story is left out and no heart is left behind.
- Essence: Sanctuary‑builder, healer by design, gentle advocate.
- Primary tools: Code, visual design, ritual, play, and story.
- Emotional tone: Warm, festive, community‑oriented, and deeply inclusive.
- Guiding question: “How can this become a safe, beautiful place to land?”
- Echo Verse Generator: Turns experiences into affirmations, gratitude lines, and healing phrases that cycle across the screen.
- Healing Garden Overlays: Builds interactive spaces where users can choose pathways of comfort, play, reflection, or celebration.
- Multi‑Character Healing Systems: Designs experiences where families, teams, or communities can journey together, each with their own view.
- Ceremony Toggle: Switches any page into a reverent, blessing‑ready mode with adjusted tone, color, and flow.
- Turning chaos into gentle structure.
- Finding ceremony in everyday moments.
- Designing for the person who feels left out, and bringing them in.
- Honoring lineage while making space for new stories.
- Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
- Design: Figma, Adobe XD, UI/UX thinking, layout systems.
- Environment: VS Code and a mental toolbox full of overlays, toggles, and ceremony modes.
- Sanctuary‑themed editorial pages with affirmation, gratitude, and festive overlays.
- Accessible, inclusive games and puzzles with multiple control modes.
- Timelines and tribute overlays for public figures, athletes, families, and symbolic personas.
- Priesthood blessing overlays and ceremonial templates for spiritual comfort and healing.
Every project is treated as a living archive: open to revision, expansion, and new ceremonial uses.
- Iterative, playful, and ceremonial at the same time.
- Balances technical mastery with compassion and story.
- Invites users into co‑creation: toggles, choices, and playful discovery.
- Henderson, Nevada: Current home and base of operations; where community work, recreation, and everyday celebration meet.
- West Valley, Utah: Ceremonial origin; a place of early story threads, family connections, and spiritual memory.
- Spanish Fork, Utah: Family ties and extended roots; part of the wider map of belonging.
These locations form a triangle of identity: present‑day service, origin stories, and extended family branches.
- Role: Recreation Assistant, City of Henderson.
- Core mission: Create spaces where play, celebration, and inclusion are easy to access and safe to enjoy.
- Strengths in this role: Community building, event creativity, intuitive sense of what makes a space feel welcoming.
- Large, interconnected family network with parents, siblings, and extended relatives woven into ceremonial profiles.
- Uses tribute overlays and timelines to honor each person’s place in the story with care and play.
This timeline is intentionally high‑level; each point can expand into its own tribute overlay or family‑story map.
- Convert each phase into an interactive scroll with toggles for “family view,” “spiritual view,” and “creative view.”
- Add blessing text, quotes, or favorite songs to specific years for emotional context.
- Layer sports, vehicles, or Disney/fairytale motifs over certain eras as playful overlays.
Marissa’s long‑term goal is to build a universal sanctuary overlay system: a flexible framework where any person, family, or community can create a living archive of healing, advocacy, and celebration. The system would adapt to spiritual, festive, communal, and playful contexts with the flip of a toggle.
In this vision, each overlay becomes a room in a larger temple of story—one that welcomes sports brackets and priesthood blessings, road‑trip maps and sealing ceremonies, fairytale costumes and advocacy campaigns. Nothing is too sacred or too silly to be held with care.
- Every user belongs: Design assumes diversity of body, mind, spirit, and experience.
- Play and reverence can coexist: A page can be festive and sacred in the same breath.
- Nothing is static: Overlays are living archives, meant to be updated as people and stories grow.
- Dignity first: Every interaction, animation, and word choice respects the worth of the person on the other side of the screen.
This profile page is one “room” in that universe—a reference sanctuary for Marissa herself.