{"id":6169,"date":"2016-10-28T09:24:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.us.wordcamp.org\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2016-10-30T11:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T15:15:30","slug":"wcus-speakers-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wcus-speakers-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the WCUS Speakers \u2013 Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve revealed 24 WordCamp US speakers so far in parts one<\/a> and two<\/a> of our speaker post series. How about 12 more?<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a>John Maeda<\/h3>\n

Global Head, Computational Design and Inclusion of Automattic. Formerly Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, President of Rhode Island School of Design, Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory.<\/p>\n

\"Petya\"<\/a>Petya Raykovska<\/h3>\n

Petya is a Senior Project Manager at Human Made where she helps large projects across big publishers and enterprise succeed. She is a huge WordPress enthusiast, active member of the WordPress community and is one of the WordPress Polyglots team leads.<\/p>\n

\"Sal\"<\/a>Sal Ferrarello<\/h3>\n

Sal is a WordPress developer with a focus on the Genesis theme framework and Bootstrap front-end framework. He is a contributor to the Genesis framework, author of the Bootstrap Genesis Theme, and author of the Stop Emails plugin available on WordPress.org.<\/p>\n

\"Winstina\"<\/a>Winstina Hughes<\/h3>\n

Winstina Hughes is concluding the Master of City and Regional Planning degree program at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. She received a B.A. from Rutgers. She\u2019s written about real estate development and transportation for hyper local news, and maintains her own WordPress.com blog on suburban planning and community engagement in the town she lives.<\/p>\n

\"Andrew\"<\/a>Andrew Nacin<\/h3>\n

Andrew Nacin is a Lead Developer of WordPress. He\u2019s led major releases, mentored contributors, and spearheaded new development. He has strong feelings about the core philosophies of WordPress, among them \u201cdecisions, not options\u201d \u2014 software should be opinionated in lieu of burdening the user with too many options.<\/p>\n

\"Courtney<\/a>Courtney OCallaghan<\/h3>\n

Courtney is a professional listener, vegetarian mom, animal caretaker, people watcher, culture enthusiast, off-hours feminist, book hoarder, designer\/coder\/other, Chief Digital Officer at Freer and Sackler Galleries, CA native, proud DC resident always in search of an ocean.<\/p>\n

\"Dennis\"<\/a>Dennis Hong<\/h3>\n

By day, Dennis engineers happiness at WordPress.com. By night, he is a relationships and comedy writer, which can be redundant or an oxymoron, depending on your perspective.<\/p>\n

\"Andrea\"<\/a>Andrea Zoellner<\/h3>\n

Andrea is a freelance copywriter and content consultant at Automattic. She loves wordplay, coffee shop hopping, and blogging about how to pack the ultimate carry-on. <\/p>\n

\"Zach\"<\/a>Zach LeBar<\/h3>\n

Zach is a designer at heart and developer by trade. He’s been working on the Web for 7 years. Currently a freelancer, specializing in graphic design (including logos, branding, and illustration work) as well as custom WordPress theme development.<\/p>\n

\"Sara\"<\/a>Sara Cannon<\/h3>\n

Sara Cannon is an entrepreneur, creative director, and artist. She is the Managing Partner and Creative Director at Range and is the Founder of Spruce Planner, an up and coming planning and goal setting app for women.<\/p>\n

\"Kathryn\"<\/a>Kathryn Presner<\/h3>\n

Kathryn Presner thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. She\u2019s currently Theme Whisperer on the Automattic Theme Team, where she helps folks with customization, configuration, and troubleshooting. <\/p>\n

\"Kari\"<\/a>Kari Leigh Marucchi<\/h3>\n

Recently Kari Leigh provided photography services to a WordCamp for the 16th time in as many months, and since departing the office-bound lifestyle has done work along the way as Found Art Photography. <\/p>\n

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The speaker lineup is really<\/em> shaping up to be a reason to get a ticket<\/a><\/strong>, if we do say so ourselves. We’d love to see you in Philly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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