{"id":6174,"date":"2016-10-31T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.us.wordcamp.org\/?p=6174"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T18:00:06","slug":"wcus-speakers-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wcus-speakers-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the WCUS Speakers \u2013 Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we\u00a0revealed lots of fantastic\u00a0WordCamp US speakers in parts one<\/a>, two<\/a>, and three<\/a> of our speaker post series. Today we’ve got more to share:<\/p>\n

\"Nancy\"<\/a>Nancy Thanki<\/h3>\n

Nancy Thanki is a photographer, filmmaker, and Happiness Engineer. Whether she is tinkering on the web or editing a film, she\u2019s enjoys introducing users and storytellers to visual design and how to avoid the pitfalls of \u201cen vogue\u201d to create products that can withstand the test of rising and falling fashions in typography, photography, moving images, and design.<\/p>\n

\"Pippin\"<\/a>Pippin Williamson<\/h3>\n

Pippin Williamson is a WordPress plugin developer from Hutchinson, KS. He runs PippinsPlugins.com and is the founder and lead developer of Restrict Content Pro, Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP and many more WordPress plugins. Beyond WordPress, Pippin has a love for sour beer, home brewing, and is an avid cyclist.<\/p>\n

\"sveta\"<\/a>Svetlana Kouznetsova<\/h3>\n

Svetlana (Sveta) Kouznetsova is a founder of Audio Accessibility who consults and trains businesses on how to make their aural information accessible via quality captioning and other types of communication access. She is also a public speaker and an author of a book, Sound Is Not Enough: Captioning as Universal Design.<\/p>\n

\"scott\"<\/a>Scott Taylor<\/h3>\n

Scott Taylor is a Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times on the Interactive News Team. He is a Core Developer of WordPress and was the Release Lead for WordPress 4.4. Scott lives in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, not Colonial) with his wife, Allie, and their 3 cats: Waffles, Willa, and Feline Dion.<\/p>\n

\"Lisa<\/a>Lisa Melegari<\/h3>\n

Hailing from Orlando, Florida, Lisa’s first passion was video games, but when that didn’t pan out as a career, she chose to devote herself to content writing on the Internet. A fateful invitation from fellow nerd, David Laietta, led her to the hallowed grounds of WordPress and the WPOrlando community.<\/p>\n

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

John is a Technical Success Manager at WP Engine facilitating the success of its largest enterprise customers. He worked more than two years on its support team in a variety of capacities helping customers with a wide-range of issues.<\/p>\n

\"sonja\"<\/a>Sonja Leix<\/h3>\n

Sonja is a location-independent WordPress designer and Digital Strategist. She\u2019s an active member of the WordPress community, contributes to the Polyglots and design teams, and helps out with community events such as WordCamp New York and Europe.<\/p>\n

\"beth\"<\/a>Beth Soderberg<\/h3>\n

Beth Soderberg is an independent developer and digital communications strategist based out of Washington, DC. She focuses on building thoughtfully architected websites that enable her clients to optimize their online presence while being empowered in managing their content.<\/p>\n

\"hugo\"<\/a>Hugo Baeta<\/h3>\n

Portuguese designer in San Francisco, with 13+ years experience in art direction, brand design, interaction design, and front-end development. Been involved with WordPress for about 10 years, since version 2.0.<\/p>\n

\"taco\"<\/a>Taco Verdonschot<\/h3>\n

Taco works at Yoast as Community Manager. In this role, he’s responsible for the distributed support team, the Yoast Translate project, WordPress Meetup Nijmegen and NijmegenPHP. He’s also heavily involved in testing the Yoast products and loves to find bugs in anyone’s software.<\/p>\n

\"tina\"<\/a>Tina Kesova<\/h3>\n

Tina is the VP of Strategic Partnerships at SiteGround web hosting company. In her role she is primarily responsible for growing the company client base through partnerships. She oversees the events and affiliates marketing teams through which SiteGround currently recruits the majority of their partners.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/a>Michael Arestad<\/h3>\n

Michael is a designer at Automattic. He may be a tad obsessed with CSS (especially Sass) and beautiful typography. Michael is currently working on some pretty neato WordPress projects.<\/p>\n

\"Gary\"<\/a>Gary Pendergast<\/h3>\n

Gary is a WordPress, web and music geek who writes poetry with Automattic. He’s been know to commit random things to WordPress Core, just to see what would happen. He can be observed in his natural habitat at pento.net, or usually in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n

\"Joe\"<\/a>Joe Dolson<\/h3>\n

Joe Dolson is an active contributor to the WordPress accessibility team, and provides ongoing support to the Theme Review team by performing accessibility audits on themes submitted for the accessibility-ready tag. He\u2019s been developing for WordPress since 2007.<\/p>\n

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