Speakers

  • Aida Marie Correa

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    Aida is a modern-day renaissance woman who brings her love of teaching and creative background together to help women live more inspired lives! She is especially known for being an artist with a passion for her AfroLatinx culture, a floral designer, a speaker, and poet. She is currently a Ford VIP Experiential Blogger and a published author.

    Aida regularly teaches kids at STEAM workshops and speaks at WordCamps and community events locally, nationally and internationally. Besides speaking on blogging, inclusivity, and the overall fun of WordCamps, Aida is an Organizer at WordCamp Jacksonville and loves to volunteer at any WordCamps she attends, especially at KidsCamps!

    When she is not traveling or getting into shenanigans with her honey, she enjoys downtime at home, scrolling through Pinterest, hanging out at Starbucks or enjoying a crafty activity. She also has a thing for Wapuu.

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  • Alicia St Rose

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    Alicia St Rose began her adventure with WordPress when a UX friend offhandedly suggested using the CMS for a mutual friend’s website. That was over 10 years ago and the adventure has turned into a torrid love affair. Now she is a freelance developer, exclusively powered by WordPress, and has yet to find a limitation in this magical piece of software.

    She is owner, principal designer and developer at WP with Heart, a small agency that employs one…so far. In addition to creating for WordPress, she provides an online one on one DIY website coaching for Spontaneous heart inspired entrepreneurs and content creators. She is also a Creativity and Mindshift Mentor, empowering people to bust through their own limitations in order to express their own unique, wildly creative selves.

    She has spoken at several So Cal WordCamps including WC Orange County and WCLAX. She was also co-organizer of the one and one time only WordCamp Ventura County. She currently organizes the only WordPress Meetup between Santa Cruz and Thousand Oaks called The South Central Coast WordPress Adventure Group.

    Alicia currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with her two rambunctious cats, Oscar and Milo. She divides her time between that seaside town and Black Rock City, Nevada.

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  • Amy Hall

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    For the last ten years, Amy has been taking email marketing out of the hands of business owners who are already juggling too many tasks. Not only is she a verified Mailchimp Partner & Expert, but she also provides hands-on email training.

    When it comes to speaking, Amy is a natural. After all, she started the Carlsbad WordPress Meetup. Amy is in her element when showing WordPress users how to optimize their forms, perfect their lead generation, and make their email marketing perform.

    When she’s not training clients on how to best create their business funnel, she spends time with her husband, a minister in Carlsbad, takes her grandkids to Knott’s Berry Farm, and RV’s around the country.

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  • Amy Kamala

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    As a tech lead at Kanopi Studios, Amy is dedicated to helping users take their WordPress experience to the next level. With a WordPress origin story that starts in hosting, Amy contributes to WordPress as a Hosting Team Rep and as a Co-Organizer on the Los Angeles WordPress MeetUps team.

    A mother of two from Venice Beach, Amy puts her MFA degree to work making art and crafts in her free time.

    In the WordPress space Amy offers technical workshops with the goal of empowering people and supporting Open Source technology.

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  • Bill Weissbard

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    Bill, an avid WordPress user and fan for ten years has been developing for several years. Bill is an active member of Pasadena WordPress Developer and General Meetups and regularly attends the Santa Clarita WordPress Meetups. He has a small agency in Pasadena whose focus is websites and promotions for Pilates and Dance studios.

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  • Elizabeth Shilling

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    Bringing 15+ years of web development experience, degrees in psychology and computer science, Elizabeth is focused on site performance, user experience, eCommerce, Preferred languages PHP, javascript, and plugin development. She also loves coffee and the ocean.

    Bringing 12+ years working with WordPress, Elizabeth has been deeply involved in the community for many years. Experienced plug-in developer, concerned with developing the future of WordPress for all.

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  • Francesca Marano

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    Francesca is the WordPress Community & Partnership Manager at SiteGround, the independent web hosting company.

    She is the current release co-lead for WordPress, where she serves as the project coordinator.

    She founded C+B, a blog with an editorial staff of more than eighty authors offering advice for Italian female creative entrepreneurs.

    Francesca is a passionate speaker and you can find her around the world talking about WordPress, community, open-source, women in tech, and small businesses.

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  • Glenn Zucman

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    Photojournalist, Artist & Arts Educator based in Los Angeles. I love long walks on the beach and iced chai-mate-lattes! WordPress is a fantastic tool for art projects! For creating culture! For expressing identity! And yes, if you must, even for making money! Before 2007 I was one of those “Copyright All Rights Reserved” types. Then in 2007, I met Richard Stallman at BarCamp Los Angeles. And I met Jon Phillips, then a Creative Commons evangelist, at Pixelodeon. I had a Damascene Free Culture conversion. Like so many converts, I became a tedious proselytizer. I also blogged with Blogger at the time. A friend asked me why I didn’t put my money where my open-source-mouth was, and switch to WordPress instead. So I did. And I haven’t looked back since. OK, I’ve looked back a little. I had a dubious flirtation with Ghost blogging software. And Joomla. And Jekyll. And it’s possible I have whined about Gutenberg more than once. Still, I’m running dozens and dozens of WordPress websites.

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  • Jocelyn Mozak

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    Jocelyn has over a decade of experience building, running and wrangling a WordPress Website Design Agency all while having two boys at home.

    While her education in engineering certainly refined her technical and analytical skills, it is her passion for what she does that makes her an outstanding WordPress web designer. She is an expert in thinking outside the box and filtering out the key points amidst all the noise.

    In addition to running her Agency, Jocelyn is a mentor & business coach to other Creative Professionals helping them to build businesses that support the life they desire.

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  • Joey Daoud

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    Joey Daoud is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with past films appearing on Netflix, The New York Times, and National Geographic. He’s been a WordPress user for over 14 years and stumbled into the third WordCamp ever while filming a documentary on life hacking. He is also a YouTube creator across multiple channels with videos garnering millions of views. In his free time he likes to climb mountains, scuba dive, and try new coffees.

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  • Joseph Dickson

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    Joseph Dickson is a web developer in higher education and an avid proponent of using WordPress’ core features to create flexible and manageable long term design solutions. I’ve built and maintain a large multisite deployment for a liberal arts college where we leverage WordPress to deliver over 5,000 pages and have over 100 contributing users. Working in higher education and the enterprise comes with additional challenges and concerns that are somewhat unique to the industry.

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  • Kara Federow

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    I am new to the security world, and deeply loving it. I have worked with WordPress sites for many years, and love them, too!

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  • Kori Ashton

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    Kori Ashton has been listed as one of seven women who run tech startups in San Antonio, Texas, to watch. She started her first company at the age of 12, and has had an entrepreneur’s heart ever since. In 1998 when she built her first HTML website she was instantly hooked on Web design. Currently Kori is a brand ambassador for Liquid Web / Nexcess, the co-founder & CEO of WebTegrity, a growing WordPress agency, and she hosts a weekly giveback to the WordPress community on her YouTube Channel. You can network with her via PressTribe – an online slack channel that she started in 2019 for WordPress freelancers and agency owners. In every workshop or webinar, Kori is determined to share actionable takeaways to our growing community.

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  • Mari Pfeiffer

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    I’m a copywriter and website designer. I know, a bit strange to get two different disciplines in one individual, but that’s what I am. I started out as a freelance writer – journalist, copywriter and creative writer. I designed a beautiful site where people could access my portfolio and other information. Soon people were asking about my design services, and when I was getting equal numbers of requests for both services, I decided to relaunch myself as a writer and designer. I work mostly with elite sports coaches, life coaches and financial consultants. I help them attract more of the people they want to do business with, and convert them into loyal clients.

    And when I’m not holed up in my office, I like to jump rope, do power yoga, and hang out with my 10-year-old daughter and cinematographer husband.

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  • Mark Uraine

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    As a creative technologist I’m dedicated to making the web more accessible, and human-friendly by facilitating the transfer of information. I’m a Design Director at Automattic and Design Lead of Gutenberg Phase 2.

    I enjoy cultural idioms, language, and the differences between eastern and western thought. I’ve been making mistakes since childhood and find it’s still the best way to reach new ground.

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  • Mary Baum

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    Mary Baum edits copy on the WordPress Core team and co-led the release of WordPress 5.2.2.

    A degreed designer, veteran creative and professional computer breaker, Mary builds for tennis people and companies and makes a lot of scenes: Of little flowers and giant landscapes (and lots of tennis players!) with her all-purpose favorite zoom lens. And intimate rooms with a view of the pool in 3D.

    Other things that are out of control: her relationships with type, modern CSS and design in the browser. And, oh, yeah, she does have OPINIONS!

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  • Matt Kopala

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    Matt is the founder of SiteDistrict, a powerful & flexible WordPress hosting platform. He has a degree in Computer Engineering, and started off his professional career as a member of the design team for AMD’s first 64-bit processor. Matt is passionate about understanding and helping people solve technical problems. He feels that WordPress hosts should do as much as possible to provide good performance, security, and automation, so that you can focus on your business while your host takes care of the rest. He enjoys travel and previously spent 3.5 years backpacking non-stop across South America, Oceania, and Asia.

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  • Saied Abbasi

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    Saied has worked in web development for the better part of the last decade. He founded a digital agency called WPHelp.co in 2013. WPHelp.co prides itself on having an approachable team and seeking ongoing relationships with nonprofits, entrepreneurs and businesses. Saied has a passion for learning and teaching. He has taught courses on Front-end Development and WordPress. Currently, he is exploring React and Frontity, and wants to share his latest findings with you.

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  • Sergio Scabuzzo

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    Sergio loves (in no particular order) nature, coding, beekeeping, Linux, sustainability, WordPress, his wife, and pup. Currently helps in maintain over 300 WordPress sites in top shape, optimizes “all the things” with scripts and WP-CLI, and hikes all over the Santa Monica mountains.

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  • Tony Le

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    Tony Le is a WP Engine Sr. Solutions Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Associate professional, and New Relic Performance Pro certified. He loves discovering interesting, innovative technology, and learning how it can help transform the digital experience, all while creating ways for customers to win online. He is also recovering from a Topo Chico addiction.

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  • William Jackson

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    William graduated from South Carolina State University earning a Bachelor’s in Education, furthering his education earning a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Webster University with a focus on Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM.

    He has over 30 years in public education and 20 years in higher education teaching Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM.

    William has been involved in WordCamp since 2012 attending his first WordCamp in Orlando, Florida since then he has grown in his service as a volunteer, advocate, speaker, evangelist for attending and participating in WordCamp and KidsCamp conferences and an Organizer.

    William hopes that his participation inspires others of all ages, colors, and cultures to get involved in the dynamic world of WordCamp in their local area, nationally and if possible internationally.

    William encourages students, faculty, staff, and administrators of HBCU – Historically Black Colleges Universities to attend, speak, volunteer and grow into organizers and share their knowledge with the next generation of digital innovators.

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WordCamp Santa Clarita Online 2020 is over. Check out the next edition!