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Aaron Reimann
Aaron is a PHP developer that started and sold an agency called Sideways8. He is currently running ClockworkWP, a design, development and hosting shop. He has built sites for companies of all shapes and sizes, ranging from small nonprofits to Fortune 100 companies, since beginning his work with WordPress in 2008.
An organizer for WordCamp Atlanta and the Atlanta WordPress Meetup, Aaron provides leadership and speaks regularly at events throughout the WordPress community (well, at least pre-covid).
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Aida Correa–Jackson
Aida Correa, New Yorican and self-described Renaissance woman, is an artist, writer, poet, designer, teacher, and a regular WordCamp volunteer and speaker.
Now in Jacksonville, Florida, she’s the owner of LoveBuilt Life LLC, a Creative Arts & Lifestyle company, where she teaches how to live life more creatively. She also uses her experience as an entrepreneur and the knowledge she’s gained from WordCamps to coach women on how-to creatively rethink their business strategy. Plus, she builds websites for start-ups on a budget.
Aida enjoys spending time with her family, volunteering in her community and traveling to WordCamp conferences where she seeks to inspire and motivate others.
She also has a thing for Wapuu.
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Aisha Adams
Aisha Adams is an influencer with a heart for community economic development who champions social change advocates, thought leaders, and courageous disruptors. She is founder of The Lenoir-Rhyne Equity & Diversity Institute and the firm Equity Over Everything.
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Amber Hinds
Amber Hinds is the CEO of Equalize Digital, Inc., a Certified B Corp specializing in WordPress accessibility, maker of the Accessibility Checker plugin, and lead organizer of the WordPress Accessibility Meetup and WP Accessibility Day conference.
Through her work at Equalize Digital, Amber is striving to create a world where all people have equal access to information and tools on the internet, regardless of ability. Since 2010, she has led teams building websites and web applications for nonprofits, K-12 and higher education institutions, government agencies, and businesses of all sizes. She is an accessibility advocate who enjoys speaking and sharing accessibility knowledge with others.
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April Wier
April runs a WordPress focused web shop, Sugar Five Design, in North Metro Atlanta. She is the lead instructor at Medical Marketing Unlocked, and most importantly, mother to a wonderful and very funny boy.
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Beth Livingston
Beth (a.k.a. WPGrandma) built her first WordPress website in 2009 for a side business, was immediately smitten, and soon began building websites for other small businesses. In 2016, after a long (did I say long?) history as an IT Business Analyst, Instructional Designer, and Project Manager, she left the corporate world to become a full time WordPress Coach and Designer. Soon after, seeing a need in the community, she decided to share her knowledge to help others by forming the WP Project Manager’s Academy.
Beth rebranded her agency in 2022 as Triad Web Advisors to focus primarily on Website Discovery and Remediation. This provides the time she needs to continue developing and providing real-life project management skills training via The WP Project Manager’s Academy.
Beth also administers the WordPress Project Management Facebook group and contributes as an event organizer for the Triad WordPress Meetup Group.
Beth considers teaching her one true joy and has presented project management-related talks at various WordCamps across the country, at Venture Cafe Winston-Salem, the Triad WordPress Meetup, and has taught project management classes at Guilford Technical Community College’s Small Business Center in Greensboro NC.
In her spare time, what there is of it, Beth also enjoys visiting live music venues and occasionally performing locally.
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Chris Belli
Chris oversees the strategic marketing of Studio Science, focusing on advancing Studio Science’s brand vision, establishing meaningful partnerships, and helping clients to deliver experiences that exceed their customers’ expectations. Chris’ company Studio Science is a design and innovation agency that works with some of the most recognizable organizations in the USA including Simon Malls, Salesforce, Cummins, JP Morgan Chase as well as many others, designing brands, digital products, and services. Prior to relocating from Australia in 2016, Chris spent 15 years in executive leadership roles within the entertainment industry in Australia.
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Christian Taylor
Christian is a content creator, entrepreneur, and drummer from Nashville, TN. His YouTube channel, Craylor Made, features content about online tech. Christian is passionate about sharing honest and easy-to-digest info with his audience of over 30,000 subscribers.
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Dan Martin
Dan is a Growth Product Manager for a tech startup called Route. He has worked as a WordPress developer and SEO for tech and as an independent consultant. Dan teaches about all things growth and digital marketing at local colleges and conferences.
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David Zimmerman
David Zimmerman has been consulting companies on their SEO strategies and tactics for over 15 years. He’s helped everyone from publicly-traded companies to mom-and-pop businesses. 8 years ago, David started his own SEO company in Charlotte, NC- Reliable Acorn, LLC. Recently he launched CuriousAnts.com, to share what he’s learned about SEO best-practices with others.
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Elizabeth Pampalone
Elizabeth Pampalone is a Marketing Minimalist, Content Creator, International Speaker, and Innovative Podcaster for over 15 years. She has developed proven formulas that help herself and her clients to create 1 year of marketing content in 5 days. Her creative approach to marketing has helped overwhelmed business owners and burnt-out nonprofit directors achieve success and freedom through the power of Absolute Marketing™.
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Frank Corso
Frank has founded and sold multiple software companies and is, currently, the Head of Engineering at Podchaser.
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Haktan Suren
Haktan Suren (aka Dr. UTM) is the original developer of HandL UTM Grabber and has dedicated his entire life to lead tracking and data analytics. He started his programming journey in high school and has developed several applications for marketers throughout his career. He is a big supporter of open-source and enjoys contributing to the open-source community sharing valuable tips in his blog, and developing applications. He has a Ph.D. in data science.
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Javacia Harris Bowser
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avacia Harris Bowser is an award-winning freelance journalist, essayist and blogger and the founder of See Jane Write, a website and community for women who write and blog. She’s the author of the essay collection “Find Your Way Back: How to Write Your Way through Anything,” which explores how she has used writing to cope with cancer and everything else life has thrown her way. Javacia was included in Southern Living magazine’s list of Innovators Changing the South, alongside household names like Dolly Parton and Reese Witherspoon and is a recipient of the 2022 Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship. Her blog has been selected by The Write Life as a top website for writers for several years.
With a focus on women’s lifestyle, wealth, and wellness, Javacia has written for a number of local, regional and national media outlets including Good Housekeeping, USA Today, Business Insider, HerMoney.com, Good Grit magazine, and The Birmingham Times. In 2020, her column for Birmingham magazine was awarded Best Magazine Column by the Alabama Press Association.
When she’s not writing, Javacia enjoys spending time with her husband Edward, eating tacos, and listening to Beyonce.
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Jessi Gurr
Jessi has been hand-coding websites since the day her dad brought home an AOL floppy disk in 1993. She started working with WordPress in 2005, and today runs a full service WordPress development agency in Minnesota. A passionate entrepreneur, Jessi loves creating jobs, speaking about her experience growing a company, and coaching freelancers and aspiring entrepreneurs.
Jessi lives in Anoka, MN. When not running a business or chasing her two young boys, you can find her in the vegetable garden or in the window seat of an airplane, traveling to her next adventure.
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Kathryn Lang
Kathryn believes in unicorns, pots of gold at the end of the rainbows, and magical house-cleaning forest animals because if you dare to believe then you can create anything.
Kathryn builds cupcakes of BIG DREAM goals sprinkled with hope and a dash of twisted encouragement because if you aren’t enjoying the journey then it’s time to change rides.
Kathryn gives wings to possibility living because this world is full of superheroes that simply need to harness their unique superpowers and once you discover the Y of you then you will fly (or at least do amazing things that leave others awestruck).
You’ll find that she weaves the fanciful imagination with purposeful words of hope in the stories she shares because with a seed of hope everything can happen.
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Kyle Johnson
Kyle Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer for GiveWP and a contributor to WordPress core, WP-CLI, and Gutenberg. He speaks at WordCamps and Open Source conferences – as well as to anyone who wants to learn about professional software development. As a collector of hobbies he is also a musician, furniture maker, amateur lock pick, avid reader, and wannabe book author.
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Marco Berrocal
A WordPress fanatic out of Costa Rica, who’s passion is all about code, automating stuff and sharing knowledge on different WordCamps in order to pass the good (and the not so good) when it comes to lessons learned.
When not coding, it’s all about food, coffee, books and of course, his beloved kids.
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Melanie Adcock
Melanie G Adcock is an Agency Owner who brings her artistic skill and web development background together to help Small Businesses and Nonprofits. She began her digital consulting career in 2010 and is now co-owner of Adcock Creative. She is especially known for creating beautiful church websites, providing excellent support to her clients , and being a creative problem solver.
Melanie G Adcock regularly speaks on various web design business topics at local WordPress Meetups and WordCamps . Besides speaking on business processes, software training, and design, Melanie volunteer at her church and runs the local WordPress Meetup Chapter.
When she is not creating stunning websites, she is reading, binging on BBC murder mysteries, cooking, or fishing.
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Micah Wood
Micah is a WordPress developer at Bluehost. He’s a WordPress core contributor, plugin developer, and meetup organizer and has spent the last 12+ years learning, living, and building with WordPress.
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Nathan Ingram
Nathan is the creator of MonsterContracts, battle-tested contracts for WordPress client work. As the founder of >ADVANCE Coaching, Nathan is a Growth Coach for WordPress Business owners, helping them become more successful in their businesses.
You may also have heard Nathan as the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and business development topics via live webinar. Based in Birmingham, he has been working with clients to build websites since 1995.
You can learn more about Nathan at https://nathaningram.com, and MonsterContracts at https://monstercontracts.com.
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Nathan Young
Nathan Young writes, runs social media, does podcasts and videos, creates presentations, and does photography / videography on the website Geek Alabama. On the Geek Alabama site, he does everything from geeky/nerdy talk, news talk, event coverage, reviews, recipes, community coverage, promotions, charity coverage, music coverage, disability coverage, and many more things.
Nathan is also a major road / infrastructure geek and his major talent is drawing roads. Nathan also works at a highway department where he makes road signs and other related work. Nathan has covered numerous highly regarded events in Alabama and Georgia and has taken thousands of pictures and videos that are shared highly on social media. And on social media, Nathan has a great number of followers that enjoys the latest updates including new posts, pictures, videos, podcasts, and more.
Nathan has featured numerous TV shows and movies and was featured himself on the A&E TV show “The Employables” in 2019. He has featured with articles and interviews many TV shows such as hit shows “The Walking Dead”, and “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.” Plus, Nathan has featured with articles and interviews several movies including the classic “Ghostbusters”, and several hit shows on streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.
Among the coverage on Geek Alabama he provides, Nathan likes to enjoy road geeking, train geeking, cooking, watching cartoons, and pets / animals. Nathan is also on the Autism Spectrum and is often looked upon for advice and thoughts from many in the disability community. #Aspie proud! #ASD
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Nev Harris
Nev shows agency owners where the profit is hiding in their business.
He has owned an agency the last 7 years and owes a lot of his success to the supportive WordPress community. The “profit guy” started as a passion project to give back to the community but at the urging of several friends morphed into something bigger.
He has fancy degrees and he started with the suit and tie job but found that to be insanely boring. It’s his down to earth take on finance for the tech world that has led to him being featured in numerous national media outlets. You can say he is the guy they call when they want to talk about money without putting the audience to sleep.
See money talk doesn’t need to be scary. Or boring. Or something you do behind closed doors with an accountant who appears to be speaking another language.
It is the key to unlocking the profit trapped in your business and lowering your stress around cash flow and expenses.
On a personal note, he’s shockingly single with no kids. He does have a dog, Romeo but his ex-gf took him saying something like it was her dog because she bought him three years before they met. Romeo and he disagree but she seems one hell of a lot bigger than 5 foot when she is explaining this so their love goes unrequited.
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Paul Gilzow
Developer Relations Engineer at Platform.sh. Former Programmer/Analyst-Principal at the University of Missouri. Web application security and accessibility evangelist. Software instructor. Conference lecturer and presenter. Runs on passion and coffee. Outside of work, you’ll find Gilzow mountain biking, snowboarding, enjoying live music with his kids, and dancing wherever the mood strikes.
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Paul Taubman
As the Chief Online Strategist of Digital Maestro, Paul B. Taubman, II has his roots deep in the world of technology. Working as a Solutions Architect at Fortune 500 companies for over 25 years, Paul knows how to get systems to talk to each other and share data.
Paul is also an expert trainer. Traveling across the county, Paul trained countless people how to work on intricate computer systems. He is a Master Trainer teaching Instructors across the country how to teach courses.
With all this training experience, Paul has learned how to teach all this “technical stuff” to non-techies! He is a master instructor at taking the obscure and complex and explaining it in a simple, fun, and educational way. Within the past 12 years, Paul has turned his attention to teaching website development to folks looking to take control of their website.
Paul is an international Speaker, Presenter, and Trainer focusing on website strategy and marketing online. Working full-time as a business owner, Paul speaks internationally and teaches businesses and individuals how to make more money with their websites.
Your stress levels will melt away after working with Paul as you take control of your website and turn it into a profit machine.
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Steve Jones
Steve Jones is the Chief Technology Officer at Equalize Digital. Steve has developed highly custom WordPress websites for clients in the enterprise business, higher ed, and government sectors while also being an integral part of developing Equalize’s accessibility auditing software, Accessibility Checker.
Steve has a degree in visual communications that’s been vital for his design and web development work. He is committed to writing performant, accessible code for every client and promoting web accessibility with every build.
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Stevica Golosin
WordPress changed Steve’s life many times. Before trying the Affiliate marketplace 15+ years ago, Steve worked as a Software Engineer writing accounting software. Along with improved website designs, WordPress improved development and migration timelines. WooCommerce helped Steve build eCommerce websites for brick-and-mortar shops and web-based businesses.
While in Serbia, Steve’s membership with WordPress Serbia, one of the top WordPress communities, enabled him to build on his expertise and improve his Web Development and Digital Marketing skills. This opportunity provided vital experiences that would shape the direction of Steve’s career. Throughout Europe and the United States, Steve has been a speaker on many occasions and an organizer for WordPress Serbia before moving to the United States.
The winds of change blew into Steve’s sails again, sending him across the Atlantic Ocean into WordPress’s birthplace: Houston, TX. Today, Steve works as a Senior Web Developer for a manufacturing company in the oil and gas industry. Collaborating with other IT enthusiasts, he teaches new Web Developers about essential web development tools, WordPress, SEO, and other web-related topics. Steve has not forgotten his favorite events: WordPress Meetups, Workshops, and WordCamps. And will continue to promote collaboration amongst web developers everywhere.
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Tricia Clements
Tricia Clements started her business, Your Biz Watchdog (https://yourbizwatchdog.com), 8 years ago and helps digital agencies add recurring revenue with White Label Google Business Profile (GBP) Services, formerly Google My Business. Due to the extensive work with GBP, she also offers GBP Fix It™ Services.
She has been involved in the WordPress community since 2012 and is a co-organizer of the Atlanta SEO for Local Businesses Meetup.
When not working Tricia enjoys spoiling her adorable rescue dog, Moxi.
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Victory Harbin
Victory Harbin founded The Social Brand, a marketing agency in Knoxville, TN, in 2018. She leads a team of 14 amazing creative professional and holds 35 marketing certifications. Her passion is content-driven marketing and helping businesses utilize content in an effective way to talk to the right people, on the right platform, in the right way.
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William Jackson
Retired educator of 33yrs teaching STEAMM Science Technology Engineering Arts Math Metaverse. Involved in the the WordPress community since 2010 as a volunteer, speaker, organizer, teacher with Kids and Teen camps.
Sharing the integration and implementation of WordPress and the Metaverse, Infiniverse.
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Zachary Skaggs
Zach is a certified Professional Scrum Master (PSMI/II) and certified Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPOI) and has been a part of the WordPress community since 2014 when he joined a WordPress development company in the Chattanooga area. He has facilitating discussions and spoken at local meetups in the Chattanooga area as well as WordCamp Atlanta. Currently he works in Birmingham on the product team of a local software company and regularly facilitates discussions on and coaches others in agile methods through the Agile Water Cooler community.
