Carol Benner was elected to the Board in 2018. Although she has been knitting, folding paper and doing other crafts for 40+ years, she was afraid to braid and even more afraid to use the marudai. She now says that has all changed! She loves and uses both the disk and the marudai. She is the author of the Art of French Beaded Flowers published in 2004 and taught beaded flower making at the Bead & Button Show for 6 years. Carol is the AKS Newsletter editor and is an expert at using the bead spinner.