Organizers

  • Aaron Campbell

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    Lead Trio

    Aaron Campbell is an international speaker, open-source advocate, and outgoing introvert. He’s been a regular contributor to WordPress for more than a decade and is currently employed by Newfold Digital (previously Endurance) to focus on the WordPress Ecosystem. His passion is helping companies work with the project to improve and support WordPress while providing better and more secure WordPress offerings to their customers.

    Twitter: @aaroncampbell
    Hometown: Seminole, Oklahoma USA

  • Alberto Gómez

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    Volunteers Team

    Alberto Gómez is a researcher, writer, content marketing consultant, and WordPress enthusiast. He works with entrepreneurs and small businesses helping with their content strategies and with the adoption of technology.

    Alberto is passionate about helping content creators become content entrepreneurs. With this goal in mind, he hosts a podcast and creates an online academy, covering topics such as entrepreneurship, marketing, WordPress, and, Web 3.0.

    When he is not creating content, teaching, or working with clients, he enjoys hiking, reading, cooking, and, spending time with his wife and daughter.

    Get in touch with Alberto on his website: albertogomez.co

    Twitter: @albermoire
    Hometown: Boynton Beach, Florida, USA

  • Allie Nimmons

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    Allie Nimmons is the owner of Beedia Productions, a video production company focused on educational WordPress content. She started working with WordPress in 2015 and has been in love ever since. Over the years, she has provided website design and development, website maintenance, plugin support, community management, and more to companies of all sizes.

    Allie spends much of her time co-running Underrepresented in Tech, contributing to various DEI-related WordPress projects, speaking at events, and building long and short-form video content for brands like LinkedIn Learning, Automattic, WP 101, and Kinsta.

    Twitter: @allie_nimmons
    Hometown: Austin, Texas USA

  • Alycia Leno

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    Communications Team

    Alycia Leno is the content marketing director for GoDaddy Pro. As part of the Sucuri team, she’s attended and spoken at WordCamps since 2014. Her first experience installing WordPress was to make a band website in 2011 using WP-CLI as required by her discount host.

    She is a first-time organizer and a new contributor to the training team. Her wheelhouse is SEO and cybersecurity. Alycia loves learning about technology and teaching others how to use it. Nature is her battery charger.

    Twitter: @artdecotech
    Hometown: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

  • Ann Pohl

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    Design Team Captain

    Ann Pohl (a.k.a. “anno”) is a WooCommerce Happiness Engineer at Automattic. She’s been working with WordPress for the past 12 years and loves nothing more than launching a new website and that feeling of getting to the bottom of a complex problem.

    She was the “Coffee Wrangler” for WordCamp Denver and is excited to jump into WordCamp US this year for the first time as an Automattic sponsored contributor.

    Growing up she was described as the girl who put on makeup to go to the LAN party and honestly not much has changed. In her free time, she’s into board games and video games along with cooking and baking. As an enneagram 7, she loves to travel and try new things as well as make every day at home an adventure.

    Twitter: @nanoanno
    Hometown: Evansville, Indiana, USA

  • Bet Hannon

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    Contributors Team

    Bet Hannon has worked with businesses and nonprofits for over 14 years, helping them build WordPress websites, integrate other communication channels, and learn how to use digital marketing tools more effectively.

    She is the founder & CEO of BH Business Websites, that designs, builds and maintains accessible websites, including membership and ecommerce sites. Bet lives in Bend, Oregon, and is a co-organizer of the WordPress Meetup there.

    Twitter: @bethannon
    Hometown: Bend, Oregon, USA

  • Brett Dunst

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    Communications Team

    Brett Dunst is Vice President of Corporate Communications at DreamHost, a web hosting and managed WordPress service provider. A brand marketing and public relations pro, Brett can often be found speaking at WordCamps and marketing conferences, consulting for small businesses to understand and surface their brands’ strengths, and being quoted in outlets including VentureBeat, Fast Company, and NPR.

    Brett is passionate about the Open Web and supporting the people that help make it happen.

    Twitter: @TremendousValue
    Hometown: Anaheim, California, USA

  • Cate DeRosia

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    Lead Trio

    Cate DeRosia is sponsored by Automattic to work on the WordPress.org Community team. She’s also an enthusiastic promoter of Big Orange Heart and #WPDiversity, and part of the ever-growing team behind the HeroPress Network.

    For her, WordPress is a family affair. Her husband works at a WordPress VIP agency and her daughters (20 & 22) are taking on new roles in the HeroPress Network.

    She currently has no free time.

    Twitter: @mysweetcate
    Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

  • Christina Workman

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    Contributors Team

    Christina Workman is a Front End Developer at Americaneagle.com with over 10 years of experience working with WordPress. An advocate for contributing to WordPress, she organizes and speaks at Meetups, WordCamps, and other events, and enjoys helping others learn how they can contribute. She has a knack for translating tech talk into everyday English and a passion for teaching the next generation of coders.

    A self-proclaimed purple-ophile, Christina also enjoys a nice mug of tea while watching British murder mysteries.

    Twitter: @AmethystAnswers
    Hometown: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • Dan Soschin

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    Communications Team

    Dan Soschin is a sponsored contributor to the WordPress project, primarily in the area of marketing and communication. Since first discovering WordPress in 2009 through a co-worker, Dan has been a WordPress site builder and evangelist ever since.

    Based in Tampa, Florida USA, Dan lives with his spouse, Sydney, who owns a Pilates studio four blocks from their home where they are devoted parents to an 8-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. Family activities include biking, amusement parks, Legos, model trains, eating donuts, and exploring Florida’s amazing outdoors.

    Twitter: @dan_soschin
    Hometown: Tampa, Florida, USA

  • Daniel Schutzsmith

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    Photography Team

    Daniel Schutzsmith is a rare breed – a hybrid of equal parts design, code, strategy, and management. He’s devoted his career to making positive change to protect our world for generations to come!

    Currently, Daniel is the Website and Digital Project Manager for Pinellas County Government, creating websites and interactive experiences to help the public get the information they need easily and intuitively.

    When not working, he enjoys giving back his time to the WordPress community as a WordCamp organizer (WCUS 22, WCUS 20, WC Miami 2020, WC NYC 2018), a Meetup organizer (New Port Richey WordPress Meetup), and a Producer at The WP Minute and also through building several side projects: WP Live Streams Directory, WP Developers Toolbox, and #WPTalks on Twitter Spaces.

    After all of that, in his free time, he enjoys walking in the fresh air, coding by the pool, drinking craft non-alcoholic beer, and hanging out with his family.

    Twitter: @schutzsmith
    Hometown: Tampa, Florida, USA

  • Dave Ryan

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    Website

    Dave Ryan is a Senior Product Manager at Newfold Digital where he focuses on improving WordPress experiences and supporting the WordPress Community.

    In the past Dave has worked as a software engineer at Newfold, large publishers, and universities. He has experience scaling high-traffic WordPress sites and strategically building products that improve user outcomes. Dave has organized five WordCamp Phoenix events and is active in local Meetups.

    Dave lives in Arizona, loves great tacos, and will like every photo of your dog on Instagram.

    Twitter: @0aveRyan
    Hometown: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

  • David Smith

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    Logistics Liason

    David Smith (he/him) is a systems engineer at Washington University in St. Louis, where his WordPress work focuses primarily on back-end infrastructure and high-availability.

    Twitter: @dsXLII
    Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

  • DJ Billings

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    Volunteers Team

    DJ Billings (they/them) is a freelance web developer and blog helper person specializing in WordPress. DJ has been building and maintaining WordPress websites for over ten years. They’re also a big proponent of open source and believe in keeping old tech running much longer than intended.

    DJ is not afraid of doing a website migration, as long as there is a happy hour later. Bourbon, please.

    DJ is also an illustrator, writer, and loves to mess around with the Raspberry Pi and any Linux distro they can get their hands on. They have a 1966 VW Beetle that needs constant love and attention. They live with their wife and kids in Los Angeles.

    Twitter: @itsjustdj
    Hometown: Los Angeles, California, USA

  • Dustin Hartzler

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    Volunteers Team

    Dustin Hartzler is a Developer for WordPress VIP at Automattic, where he helps customers build successful websites. If working with WordPress all day wasn’t enough, he spends time each week recording his WordPress podcast call Your Website Engineer

    He enjoys helping people understand and use WordPress to its fullest capacity and spends time improving websites with code. He also has been the lead organizer for WordCamp Dayton and led the volunteer efforts for WordCamp US in 2019.

    When he’s not in front of the computer (which is rare), he enjoys spending time CrossFitting, reading, building things around the house, and traveling. He lives in Dayton, OH with his wife, 8-year-old daughter, and 5-year-old son.

    Twitter: @dustinhartzler
    Hometown: Dayton, Ohio, USA

  • Gale Wallace

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    Photography Team Captain

    For more than 20 years, Gale Wallace has been in the web development industry. Currently working for Pantheon.io, a WebOps platform supporting Drupal and WordPress, as a Customer Success Manager. She has an opportunity to work with a number of our amazing customers, assessing site performance, potential improvements, security risks, upcoming project scopes, and enhancements. Prior, Gale was the Web Services Manager/Developer for Marketing and Communications at Rockford University for more than 13 years.

    Her passion for WordPress and for team involvement is also what led me to get involved with volunteering for organizations such as WordPress Core, WordCamp US (WCUS), WPCampus, and HighEdWeb. Gale has met so many fantastic people from these organizations and is so grateful to be able to give back when and where she can.

    While Gale loves everything web development & digital marketing, she is equally passionate about photography, videography, and flying drones.

    Twitter: @galewallace
    Hometown: Rockford, Illinois, USA

  • J.J. Toothman

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    Communications Team

    J.J. Toothman is the President of Lone Rock Point, a boutique consultancy using WordPress to help forward-thinking organizations to tell their stories to the world. He’s a 20-year veteran of Web and digital interactive spaces and is a subject matter expert in enterprise collaborative software, open-source content management systems, and working with open source communities.

    Twitter: @jjtoothman
    Hometown: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

  • Jason McClintock

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    Design Team

    Jason is a designer at DigitalCube, helping make Jamstack hosting products for WordPress and focusing on front end, marketing, and brand design. Jason is an open-source fan and has been creating sites with WordPress for ten years.

    Twitter: @ohboyitsjason
    Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

  • Jason Nickerson

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    Programming Team

    Jason Nickerson is Cloudways Senior Manager of WordPress. Jason has a deep understanding of volunteer communities with an Open Source career spanning more than two decades. He has spent the past seven years in the CMS / Web Hosting Event space and has experience as a speaker, sponsor, and event organizer.

    A first-time volunteer for WordCamp US and part of Cloudways Five for the Future team.

    Twitter: @WPJNickerson
    Hometown: Houston, Texas USA

  • Jen Hill

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    Volunteers Team

    Jen Hill is an Account & Senior Project Manager at Kanopi Studios – a fully remote website development agency specializing in OpenSource CMSs, WordPress, and Drupal. In the Delivery and Support team for WordPress clients, Jen works with clients and colleagues through task management, planning, and strategic process to keep projects on time and budget.

    As an Account Manager, she acts as a liaison between clients and Project Managers. As a Senior Project Manager, she manages ongoing updates and upgrades for her client websites. Using a blend of strategic, creative, and technical expertise, Jen works to enable client websites to evolve and continually improve over time.

    Outside of work, Jen is a mom to 2 girls (6 and 3yo) and a dedicated BMX racer.

    Twitter: @jenhillid
    Hometown: Meridian, Indiana, USA

  • Jen Swisher

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    Contributors Team Captain

    Jen (a.k.a. “Swish”) is a Jetpack Happiness Engineer based in St. Louis, Missouri. She’s an avid fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, all things toasted ravioli shaped and making faces when people ask her opinion on Provel cheese.

    In her spare time, she volunteers for the WordPress open source project as a local community organizer, WordCamp organizer, and WordPress Community Deputy. Jen also enjoys reading, traveling, sewing, and spending time with her rescue dogs, Loki and Jersey.

    Twitter: @JenSwish
    Hometown:
    St. Louis, Missouri, USA

  • Joe A Simpson, Jr

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    Communications Team Captain

    During endless, sun-soaked days Joe A Simpson Jr (He, Him) works as part of the Digital Strategy Team at Metro Los Angeles, one of the largest transit agencies in the World, fighting the good fight to convince solo drivers to Go Metro.

    During a 90-day leave of absence to heal emotionally and physically from a heart event, he reaffirmed his love for the WordPress Community by giving back at a fast and furious pace.

    Some highlights include serving as a Co-Team Rep on the Make Accessibility Team; led the effort to bring his region’s first WordCamp to a smaller town (Santa Clarita, CA 2019-2021); organizes three WordPress-based Meetups (BlackPress, WordPress, and Elementor); and has presented or volunteered at over 25+ WordCamps, Meetups, and WordPress events all over the (virtual) world in the past four years.

    Twitter Handle: @JoeSimpsonJr
    Hometown: Castaic, California, USA

  • Jonathan Pantani

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    Design Team

    Jonathan Pantani is a creative director and brand marketer who’s joined Automattic as a sponsored contributor to WordPress.org. He loves diving into brand architecture and governance, exploring creative digital experiences, and creating customer-centric messaging. He brings deep experience working with tech and e-commerce brands.

    When not exploring a new city, he’s a food and fitness fan.

    Hometown: San Francisco, California, USA

  • Jonathan Wold

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    Sponsorship Team

    Jonathan Wold joined the WordPress community 17 years ago and has been all in ever since. Jonathan thinks about WordPress as an Operating System for creating on the Open Web and invests his time and energy into growing the WordPress ecosystem.

    Twitter: @sirjonathan
    Hometown: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA

  • Julia Rose Golomb

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    Contributors Team

    Julia Rose Golomb contributes full-time to the WordPress open source project’s Community Team as a Community Deputy. Her time is sponsored by Automattic, through Five for the Future. 

    Julia has a rich background in mediation and group facilitation, and delights in applying open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion to community stewardship. Julia enjoys playing in the woods and on the water, bicycling, and taking endless photos of her cat.

    Twitter: @JuliaRoseGo
    Hometowns: Oakland, California & Stratham, New Hampshire, USA

  • Karen Jeanne Radley

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    Communications Team

    Karen Jeanne Radley, is the owner of KJRWebmasters, using WordPress to design websites & digital marketing strategized for growth. The company works with small – medium-sized businesses, theater, and non-profit organizations.

    Karen has over 21 years of experience in media and technology, working in a wide variety of industries, and is a frequent guest lecturer at NYU and other institutions on building brands using websites and Social Media.

    A longstanding member of the WordPress community this is her first year as a member of the WordCamp US organizing team, and she has been part of the WordCamp NYC team for several years.

    Twitter: @KJRwebmasters
    Hometown: New York, New York, USA

  • Kathy Drewien

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    Lead Trio

    A leader in the Atlanta WordPress community, Kathy Drewien has been supporting WordPress people for as long as we’ve known her. She’s a long-standing organizer of WordCamp Atlanta (2010-2020) and WordCamp US 2017-2022, a WPCS deputy and mentor, the facilitator for the Marietta (Atlanta) WordPress Meetup, and so, so much more. Her firm, Kathy Drewien & Company, rescues abandoned, broken, ugly, orphaned, and non-productive websites.

    Kathy is a brave and caring leader who believes leadership is an emotional process—a way of connecting by being herself. She is an attentive listener, kind, generous, and outspoken.

    Kathy’s life beyond WordPress includes her joy-filled role as Delta’s Nana, the organized chaos of 2000 jigsaw puzzle pieces on the kitchen table, and topless road trips in her HellaYella Jeep Wrangler.

    Twitter: @KDrewien
    Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

  • Kim White

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    Sponsors Team Captain

    Kim White has been a web developer for over twenty years building websites and web-based applications. She has been using WordPress since 2008 and is a co-organizer of the Lehigh Valley Meetup and Lehigh Valley WordCamp. She has been part of the organizing team of WCUS since 2018.

    Kim joined the support team at Paid Memberships Pro in 2020.

    Twitter: @MrsCRW
    Hometown:
    Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

  • Kimberly Lipari

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    Programming Team Captain

    Kimberly Lipari is the owner of Valet.io. Valet provides website services to businesses with WordPress websites that need to expand their teams and eliminate their technical headaches. Kimberly leads the day-to-day charge of developing a solid team and delivering quality client services.

    She’s spoken at various WordCamps in past years and she is a past WordCamp US Organizer Volunteer. Kimberly lives in south Louisiana with her three daughters and husband.

    When she’s not working on client work she likes to get as far away from her computer as possible and outside into the fresh air.

    Twitter: @kimberlylipari
    Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

  • Laura Byrne

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    Registration Team Captain

    Laura Byrne’s first career was in nonprofit marketing, development, and communication where she created the organization’s first website in Microsoft FrontPage. On the side, as a fan of all things sci-fi and fantasy, she was a website and forum moderator for a variety of very popular websites covering the entertainment industry. Flash forward a decade, and the hobby became her main career. She is currently a digital strategist for WebDev Studios.

    When she’s not working, Laura can be found participating on stage or behind the scenes at Studio Players, figuring out how to make traditional Sicilian recipes low carb, or exploring her surroundings on a daily 4K walk in her Montclair, NJ neighborhood.

    Twitter: @NewYorkerLaura
    Hometown: Montclair, New Jersey, USA

  • Machelle Cox

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    Volunteers Team

    Machelle Cox is a Happiness Engineer at WordPress.com currently based in Mesa, Arizona. She considers home Louisville, Kentucky, and relocated back there in June 2022. Machelle has several years of WordPress experience and loves to teach others how to use WordPress.

    She regularly attends WordCamps and has both organized and volunteered for WordCamp Phoenix in the past. When Machelle isn’t working, she really enjoys reading, crafting, traveling, hiking, and spending time with her daughter.

    Twitter: @wpshellbelle
    Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

  • Mervin Hernandez

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    Sponsorships Team

    Mervin Hernandez is a longtime WordPress community member and contributor-organizer. Mervin presently serves as the Director of Client Solutions at rtCamp US, an international WordPress consultancy where he gets to work with clients on both the business and tech side of WordPress. Mervin has hosted WordCamp NYC and recently relocated from NYC to Nashville TN where he is rekindling the local meetup group.

    Twitter: @hrmervin
    Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

  • Michele Butcher-Jones

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    Photography Team

    Michele Butcher-Jones is the Lead WordPress Technical Specialist at Thrive Internet Marketing Agency and runs her own WordPress shop at 13Core. She is also the Head Geek over at Can’t Speak Geek.

    When not working her jobs, Michele is an organizer for WordCamp St Louis and the Lead Organizer of the Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup. You can usually find her snapping pictures, at the gym, hanging with her family, or reading a book. She is always down for an adventure, especially if it involves great food or drinks.

    Twitter: @michele_butcher
    Hometown: Carbondale, Illinois, USA

  • Michelle Frechette

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    Photography Team

    Michelle Frechette is the Director of Community Engagement for StellarWP at Liquid Web.

    In addition to her work at StellarWP, Michelle is the Podcast Barista at WPCoffeeTalk.com, cofounder of underrepresentedintech.com, creator of wpcareerpages.com, the president of the board for BigOrangeHeart.org, Director of Community Relations and contributor at PostStatus.com, author, business coach, and a frequent organizer and speaker at WordPress events.

    Michelle lives outside of Rochester, NY where she’s an avid nature photographer.

    You can learn more about Michelle at meetmichelle.online.

    Twitter: @michelleames
    Hometown: Rochester, New York, USA

  • Miriam Goldman

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    Volunteers Team Captain

    Miriam Goldman is a Technical Lead at Kanopi Studios, bridging the gap between the development team, project managers, and clients. She is a full-stack developer with over 16 years of experience. Heavily involved in the WordPress Community, she regularly speaks at WordCamps across North America and is a member of the Ottawa WordCamp and WordPress Meetup organizing teams.

    Outside of her technical life, she is a karate sensei, holding a 3rd-degree black belt, and also plays clarinet in a community band.

    Hometown: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  • Nicholas Garofalo

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    Communications Team

    Nicholas Garofalo has been a WordPress user since 2004. With his experience in development and growth marketing, he contributes to the WordPress.org Marketing team as a sponsored contributor.

    Twitter: @eidolonnight
    Hometown: Batavia, New York, USA

  • Paul David Clark

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    Photography Team

    Paul David Clark is a web developer who has been working in the industry since 2005. He is passionate about nature and finding simple solutions to complex problems. He has a strong belief in the power of technology to change the world for the better.

    Examples of his work, including an interactive Artificial Intelligence interface, can be seen at https://pd.cm/.

    Twitter: @pdclark
    Hometown: Los Gatos, California, USA

  • Phillip Burger

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    Design Team

    Phillip Burger works as a Senior Engineering Manager, leading teams of innovative full-stack engineers and bringing exciting projects to life. He has been involved in the WordPress ecosystem since early 2009 involving plugin and site development.

    Phillip also co-owns Holly Helps Marketing with his wife. They help small businesses with all their online marketing needs.

    He is from Tulsa, Oklahoma and now lives in Ramona, California with his family.

    Twitter: @pbinfinity
    Hometown: Ramona, California, USA

  • Rick Alday

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    Design Team

    Rick Alday thrives on helping customers succeed in fundraising by supporting them in his role as a support technician at GiveWP.

    He is a committed member of the WordPress community (since 2008) as an active contributor in the forums (tech support since 2010), and WordCamp attendee and organizer. Rick cofounded the Mexico City WordPress meetup in 2013, and organized WordCamp Mexico City 2015-2020.

    Rick is an avid gardener and photographer based in Galeana, Morelos, Mexico, where he and his wife are raising a beautiful family.

    You can learn more about Rick at rickalday.com

    Twitter: @rickalday
    Hometown: Zacatepec, Morelos, Mexico

  • Ryan Marks

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    Attendee Services Team Captain

    Ryan Marks is a Software Engineer for Pantheon. He has been using WordPress since 2006, is the current lead organizer of WordCamp Birmingham, and is a WordPress Community Deputy. He enjoys Alabama Football and Softball games, saltwater fishing, snow-skiing, and giving back to his local community.

    Twitter: @CdrMarks
    Hometown: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

  • Sandy Edwards

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    Programming Team

    Sandy Edwards has been working in the online marketing space since 2014. She started at a niche firm that utilized WordPress to create sites quickly utilizing several options frameworks. Today, she works at GoDaddy as a Senior Marketing Manager and also owns Data Driven Labs a WordPress-focused Agency that focuses on WordPress support.

    When she is not working she loves to give back by teaching kids about coding, WordPress, and other technical skills. Sandy is very active in the event planning community and is excited to see what changes are coming in the upcoming years to the tech space!

    Twitter: @SunSandDesign
    Hometown: Orlando, Florida, USA

  • Talisha Lewallen

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    Sponsorships Team

    Talisha Lewallen is the Director of Operations of Post Status. Before starting her journey in WordPress, Talisha built a career in two different areas of Social Work. In 2020 she used WordPress and WooCommerce when she built her first website for her farm. She quickly caught “the bug” and built two more websites utilizing WordPress. She is very excited to be a part of the Post Status team and our growing community.

    In her off time, Talisha stays busy with her 3 children, husband, running her farm, and helping friends with their WordPress websites. Talisha Is also an Award-winning Native American Artist, and carves out time to paint, bead earrings, or weave baskets for Native American Art shows.

    Hometown: Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA

  • Tiffany Miller

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    Attendee Advocate Team Captain

    Tiffany Miller is currently the Director of Happiness Experience at Automattic where she focuses on the Growth and Development of their support team. She is passionate about helping people find their place on the web and loves showing others how powerful WordPress can be in helping them achieve the sites they have envisioned.

    With a background in fundraising and volunteering, she got involved with her local WordPress community in DFW (and WCUS) as a volunteer and organizer as a way to give back to the community that has given so much to her. She brings with her many years of experience in project management and operational analysis.

    Away from the internet, Tiffany and her husband enjoy Tex-Mex with or without their 4 daughters. They also love supporting their girls in their different activities. She is also a TED-talk enthusiast and loves to follow the work of her favorite TED speakers.

    Twitter: @mrsmilli1207
    Hometown: Arlington, Texas, USA

  • Topher DeRosia

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    Contributors Team

    Topher lives in Grand Rapids MI with his wife Cate. A web developer for over 25 years, Topher has been working with WordPress for 12 years.

    A serial contributor, Topher has code in core, plugins in the repository, hundreds of training videos published, and attended more than 80 WordCamps.

    Topher also manages the HeroPress Network, curating HeroPress.com, in an attempt to bring equity and wisdom to the WordPress community.

    Twitter: @topher1kenobe
    Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

  • Winstina Hughes

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    Programming Team

    Winstina Hughes is a WordPress Community member, Core Contributor, and Speaker. She works in Regional Planning for the Maryland Department of Transportation.

    You can learn more about Winstina at winstinahughes.com

    Twitter: @iamwinstina
    Hometown: Maplewood, New Jersey, USA

DAY-OF Volunteers

WordCamp US wouldn’t be possible without volunteers who make the onsite (and online) event run smoothly!

A huge thank you to everyone who played a role — large or small — in making WordCamp US 2022 a reality.

WordCamp US 2022 is over. Check out the next edition!