WordCamp Birmingham is thrilled to announce the speakers in the Content Track.
Tickets are available now. Just $50 for the full weekend, including 2 days of talks and workshops, lunch both days, event t-shirt, other event swag, and a fantastic after party!
Javacia Harris Bowser
Topic: Blog Your Book
Javacia 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.
Jarrett Gucci
Topic: WordPress – What to Do When you Don’t Know What to Do
Jarrett Gucci comes from a retail background that started at Home Depot in Buffalo NY as cashier and 18 months later was asked to be a project manager based out of Carson California with a goal of opening 12 stores in 14 months. This goal was accomplished. He has also been an area manager at Big Lots and Bed Bath and Beyond. He left his very last retail career as a district manager at Linens & Things in 2007 to pursue a hobby of website development as hope he could make some money doing it. After 4 years of building and managing WordPress sites, he founded a company called WP Fix It and since 2009 his company has serviced over 332,000 WordPress support tickets. Something you may not know about Jarrett besides all this, is that when he was 15 his neighbor gave him a 1962 dodge dart and he completely took it apart and rebuilt it.
David Wolfpaw
Topic: Starting Your Own Newsletter
David Wolfpaw (they/them) is a professional web developer focused on WordPress theme and plugin development. They emphasize helping small businesses, providing ongoing maintenance and support, and educating users through their service FixUpFox. David has been a proud and happy SiteGround client since 2013, and a partner in the SiteGround WordPress Ambassador program since 2018.
Kathryn Lang
Topic: Yes! YOU Can Podcast!
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.
Joseph Lopreste
Topic: How to Easily Audit your WP Site for Accessibility
I am co-owner of a web development company and a web accessibility advocate that has a passion for helping people and WordPress. I bring over 15 years of business and technology experience.
I believe that I can help my community by explaining and teaching how easy web accessibility is to implement for developers, designers, and agencies who build and maintain over 1/3 of the internet by using WordPress.
Paul Taubman
Topic: How to Save Time (and Sanity) By Repurposing Your Content
As the Founder of Digital Maestro, a Website and Marketing Agency, and the coordinator of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, Paul knows a few things about leveraging content to make the most of it. Running multiple businesses, having good time management and being effective with your content is important – this is something that he has mastered.
With his free time, Paul loves to tame lions and go hiking. Sometimes these two intersect nicely!
