She Was Called a Bipolar Musician. She Was a Sandia Quantum Computing Scientist.

Thank you to the gentleman who pointed out that I didn’t originally link the article. My bad!

In every news story written about Ingrid Coleen Lane, she is described the same way. Thirty-seven years old. Married. Bipolar. Buddhist. Musician. Struggling with her mental health. A woman who went for a hike in the Jemez Mountains outside Albuquerque on October 15th, 2023, and did not come back.

That description is not wrong. But it is so incomplete that it functionally buried who Ingrid Lane really was. And when you learn who she really was, this story changes completely.