Announcing the next four speakers for WCUS 2021 Online!
Sienna is a developer from Vancouver, British Columbia with a passion for creating accessible, beautiful, dynamic products and websites that spark change and empower users, for clients including the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Warren for President, Warren Democrats, and Wu for Boston. She also holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Science (and M.Sc in Geography) from McGill University in Montreal and is deeply concerned about sustainability — particularly, how every website that’s built contributes to the internet’s total energy consumption (which accounts for more than 2% of global emissions) and what steps designers, developers, and customers of websites and cloud provider services can take to address that.
When you say Taco, you say Tuesd.. wait no. You say WordPress community. Because ever since Taco learned about the WordPress community in 2013, he’s been involved. You can find him helping out as a local meetup organizer, WordCamp volunteer and organizer, and deputy in the global community team. So it shouldn’t surprise you that his role at Yoast is Community Manager. Taco thrives on interacting with others, so if you haven’t met him before, make sure to reach out to him during WCUS!
Lesley is the co-founder of Newsletter Glue, a plugin that turns WordPress into a newsletter publishing platform. In previous lifetimes, she’s run her own digital marketing agency, co-owned a craft beer brewery, taught freediving professionally, worked at an ad agency, and spent way too many years as a government employee.
Cory Webb has engineered WordPress solutions for years, and understands the system and its architecture at a deep, technical level. He has authored a book on CMS design, and spoken at regional WordCamps in Austin, Fort Worth, San Diego, and Minneapolis. He enjoys engaging with students and looking for ways to help site owners do things differently (read: more easily) so they can empower themselves in a world where DIY can be overwhelming. Cory embraced Gutenberg development as an early adopter while working with a WordPress agency. He’s built custom blocks since early 2018 and experienced the ways the API and tools evolved into a robust ecosystem.
Currently, Cory leads plugin development as a software engineer for Fast, a Bay Area Fintech company whose one-click checkout integrates with WooCommerce-powered WordPress sites. He hails from Waco, Texas, home of Dr. Pepper, Baylor University, and shiplap, and you can usually find him spending time with his wife and three kids traveling, watching movies, and serving at his local church.