Famke De Jong

Famke De Jong is a teacher working onboard the USS Phoenix. Born in the Netherlands on Earth to a world-class hiker and a librarian, she is a granola girl who somehow went from living in the mountains to working as a teacher on a starship. As a young girl she initially pursued the same route as her mother the hiker, spending as much time as possible outside and exploring, but as she grew older it morphed into more of a hobby than anything else.

Thus Famke ended up taking the other of the two roads laid by her parents- she moved to California in a fit of curiosity and wanderlust, where she ended up working as a librarian. While working at the library, she was particularly good about working with the kids who came through- she loved helping them and telling them stories. The library was also where she met her future wife, Olivia Lewis. Olivia was a teacher who frequently brought her students on trips to the library, and very soon she and Famke had begun a relationship. They married when Famke was 25.

Unfortunately, Olivia passed away only six years after their marriage. It was then that Famke decided to obtain her teaching license- aside from being good with kids, she wanted a way to honor Olivia’s memory that would make an impact. After years of schooling to obtain her degree in education, Famke was set. She took up a job at a school in San Francisco, where she ended up teaching several children of Starfleet officers. She worked at this school for several years, becoming well-loved in the community. Eventually, all the talk of traveling the stars she was surrounded by influenced her, so she volunteered for a position teaching on a starship. She was assigned to the USS Phoenix, and still up for a new adventure, she gladly accepted.