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Aaron Reimann
Aaron is a PHP developer that started and sold his agency Sideways8. He is currently running ClockworkWP, a custom hosting company. He is an organizer for WordCamp Atlanta and the Atlanta WordPress Meetup, Aaron provides leadership and speaks regularly at events throughout the WordPress community. Most recently, Aaron has been serving as the technical lead for 48in48.org, an organization that builds 48 websites for 48 nonprofits in 48 hours at events around the world.
Twitter: @areimann
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Adam Silverstein
Adam is an active WordPress core committer and a Developer Programs Engineer in the Content Ecosystems Team at Google where he focuses on making open web better for everyone. Adam loves long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending his over-sized garden.
Twitter: @roundearth
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Aida Correa
Aida is a modern-day renaissance woman who brings her love of teaching and creative background together to help women live more inspired lives! She is especially known for being an artist with a passion for her AfroLatinx culture, a designer, a speaker, blogger and poet.
Aida regularly teaches kids at STEAM workshops and speaks at WordCamps and community events locally, nationally and internationally. Aida is an Organizer at WordCamp Jacksonville and loves to volunteer!
She also has a thing for wapuu.Twitter: @lovebuiltlife
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Aisha Adams
Aisha is the founder and CEO of the Aisha Adams Media Group and Equity Over Everything. Aisha’s other ventures include the Asheville View, a daytime-style talk show. Nappy Thoughts, a personal blog followed by thousands of people on social media, and the Entrepreneurial Accelerator, a business bootcamp that ties fledgling businesses to community resources. She is also the program developer for the Lenoir-Rhyne Equity & Diversity Institute (LREDI).
Twitter: @AishaAdamsblog
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AmyJune Hineline
AmyJune is an active contributor in the open-source world. She is the Community Ambassador and QA Engineer at Kanopi Studios.
Her ongoing experience as a hospice nurse keeps her in touch with the challenges faced by many end-users. In her continued efforts to make a difference, she helps organize A11yTalks, an online meetup where they invite folks on every month to talk about all things accessibility.
In addition to her work building community connections, AmyJune is an avid geocacher, noted Volkswagen enthusiast, and eats with her elbows on the table.
Twitter: @volkswagenchick
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Aviva Campbell
Great messaging can change the world. It’s an essential truth guiding Aviva’s career as a writer and digital marketing strategist with a passion for building mission-driven and arts-focused brands. Language and psychology fascinate her and inform her approach to brand identity and optimized content creation; it’s an approach that combines story-telling, demographics research, advertising know-how, and technical prowess with a focus on search engine optimization.
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Cassandra Hendrix
Cassandra is the founder and creative director of Base Note Labs, a consulting agency that works with entrepreneurs to beat tech overwhelm. She’s been developing websites with WordPress for over a decade and specializes in systems integration, ensuring websites are working for small businesses instead of simply taking up space on the Internet. She also teaches courses on digital strategy through NC’s Small Business Center (SBC) network as well as chambers of commerce. Born and raised in rural WNC, Cassandra is passionate about helping entrepreneurs thrive in their local communities and beyond.
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Cliff Seal
I’m a Principal Designer at Salesforce, helping build world-class customer experience tools. I’m passionate about keeping people at the heart of design through proven research and effective design strategies.
I live in Atlanta where I co-organize amUX, a morning meetup for the user experience community. I build products and services under Logos Creative, and am the co-host of a podcast called TuneDig.
You can usually find me at a concert, riding around on a bike, playing guitar, or plotting to go snowboarding.
Twitter: @cliffseal
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Emanuel Costa
I’m a professional web developer, SEO/SEM specialist, eCommerce consultant and web entrepreneur, with over 27 years experience in web development. I’ve been working professionally w/ WordPress for the past 10 years. I contribute as much as I can, at WordPress.tv, translating WP, organizing meetups and volunteering at WordCamps. I have created custom sites using WordPress from selling movie tickets to hiring and managing events staff. I developed sites with dozens of thousands of concurrent users using elastic computing. I am also proud to never ever had a site hacked, yet! (-:
Twitter: @emanweb
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Halleh Abedi
Halleh Abedi is a trailblazing entrepreneur with contagious energy and passion for design. Her expertise comes from over ten years of leadership in product and brand solutions for a diverse range of clients; from Nike, IBM, Samsung and other Fortune-100s to emerging startups. Halleh is the founding Principal/Creative Director of Five Acres Agency, an active runner, ocean-lover, and mom to two strong, independent daughters.
http://www.fiveacresagency.com
Twitter: @fiveacresagency
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Jocelyn Mozak
Jocelyn has over a decade of experience building, running and wrangling a WordPress Website Design Agency all while having two boys at home. In addition to running her Agency, Jocelyn is a mentor & business coach to other Creative Professionals helping them to build businesses that support the life they desire.
Twitter: @jocelynmozak
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Joe A. Simpson, Jr
Joe A. Simpson, Jr. is a Front-End Web Developer and User-Experience Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. He is also a SiteGround Ambassador. Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, he pivoted, focusing FIRST on doing the things he truly loved — WordPress, creative passions, teaching tech, and truly giving back. He actively contributes to the WordPress Community, founding WordPress and Elementor Santa Clarita Valley Meetups, speaking or volunteering at WordCamps, and is the Lead Organizer for WordCamp Santa Clarita Online.
Twitter: @joesimpsonjr
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Josh Gellock
Josh is the SEO and Content Strategist at Expander Digital, an SEO studio he founded in 2014. He’s been in the SEO space since 2011 and helps businesses manage their SEO through projects, consultations, and campaigns. When he’s not meeting with clients, you can find Josh spending time with his children or on a bike.
Twitter: @expanderdigital
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Justin Ferrell
Justin manages Digital Relativity’s development team, coordinating website projects between the development and creative teams, ensuring that website designs meet client expectations and industry standards. He is an experienced backend developer, specializing in responsive web development. He got his start in mobile development almost 10 years ago, shortly after the launch of the App Store.
Twitter: @developerjustin
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K Adam White
K Adam is a Principal Engineer at Human Made, where he builds enterprise-scale projects on top of WordPress and Altis, Human Made’s WordPress-based Digital Experience Platform. He is a long-time open source contributor and project maintainer and the former lead developer of the REST API component in WordPress Core. He really misses NC’s high country, and hopes we can get back together in the mountains soon!
Twitter: @kadamwhite
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Kate Runy
Kate Runy is a communications specialist at BC/DC Ideas, a marketing agency that works exclusively with nonprofits. There, she manages online content and social media for communications and development projects. Prior to joining BC/DC Ideas, she coordinated website and social media content and communications for Go Global NC and Alzheimer’s North Carolina. In her spare time, she runs a Canine Community Outreach of North Carolina, a nonprofit dedicated to spay and neuter initiatives for dogs in low-income areas.
Twitter: @wcsketch
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Leah Shapiro
As SEO Manager at Seer Interactive in San Diego, Leah builds actionable content strategies that support client goals and serve audience needs. Although she was an early adopter of Ask Jeeves, Leah started her career in print, with stints in book publishing and journalism. As chief editor for an award-winning arts and culture magazine in Asheville, North Carolina, Leah wrote stories about entrepreneurs and organizations, while managing a team of freelance writers and interns, and dabbling in photography. After five years in print, she turned to digital marketing in 2016 as a content creator at a Certified B Corp agency with clients primarily in tourism, impact, and health. It wasn’t long before the agency’s SEO division piqued her curiosity, and she was hooked. Her knowledge in SEO strategy, technical SEO, and content development helps Leah focus on the details and keep in mind the larger context.
Twitter: @ovaryexcited
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-shapiro-b290884b/
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Micah Wood
A professional WordPress developer for over a decade, Micah has worked on sites for Fortune 100 companies, has released over a dozen WordPress plugins, is a frequent speaker at WordCamps, is a WordCamp Atlanta organizer, is a co-host on the WP Square One podcast, and shares his knowledge by blogging on WordPress development topics. Currently, Micah works at Bluehost and spends most of his time contributing back to WordPress.
Twitter: @wpscholar
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Michael Cremean
Michael Cremean has over 25 years of Technology Leadership, Architecture, Security and Scalability expertise, having led many successful high tech products from conception to launch. Since 2009, Michael and Quadshot Digital have helped customers deploy over 200 web projects
He holds 6 patents, and speaks at events and conferences about server and application security, architecture, scaling and open-source software. Michael is founder and organizer of the Las Vegas WooCommerce and Elementor Las Vegas Meetups.
Twitter: @michaelcremean
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Miriam Goldman
Miriam is a WordPress Technical Lead for Kanopi Studios. She started playing around with WordPress for personal projects in 2008, and for professional projects two years later. Miriam speaks at various WordCamps across North America, and is also a mentor and instructor for Ottawa’s chapter of Canada Learning Code. She has been a member of the WordCamp Ottawa organizing team since 2017.
Twitter: @mirigoldman
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Nathan Ingram
Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and business development topics via live webinar.
He is also the creator of MonsterContracts, a service that provides contracts for WordPress client work that are battle tested, attorney analyzed, annually audited, and member strengthened.
As the founder of >ADVANCE Coaching, Nathan is a Growth Coach for WordPress Business owners individually and in groups, helping them become more successful in their businesses.
Nathan has been working with clients to build websites since 1995. He is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he has been an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham (WP Y’all) for several years.
Twitter: @nathaningram
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Rich Owings
Rich Owings is a local SEO specialist, focusing on improving local business’s visibility on Google Maps, improving their organic rankings, their online reviews and their mobile presence. He has been involved in Internet marketing since 2005 when he started a technology blog that he took full-time in 2007, and sold in early 2014. That site fueled his interest in and knowledge of SEO and location-based services, and he now focuses on sharing his knowledge with local businesses.
https://localiswhereitsat.com/
Twitter: @richowings
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Sarah Benoit
As the Lead Instructor for the JB Media Institute, Sarah leverages her 13 years of experience as an online marketing, SEO, and social media strategist to create training content that get results. She is dedicated to making the field of Internet marketing accessible and understandable to business and marketing professionals with timely, relevant, and engaging classes and seminars.
Twitter: @sarahdbenoit
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Steven Ayers
Steven is a full-stack WordPress developer and author of the plugin WP Security Safe. He started programming at the age of 11 and later served in the US Air Force working on jet electrical systems. His wide spectrum of experience in technology and military background cultivated his interest and skills in website security.
Twitter: @sovstack
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Wesley Lewis
Wesley is an experienced speaker, leader, and WordPress enthusiast who, after suddenly and unexpectedly losing his job several years ago, set out on a journey to do WordPress full-time. Today, he is the owner of One Eighty Digital, a small boutique digital agency in Jacksonville Florida focused on serving local small businesses and non-profits.
Twitter: @oneeightydig
WordCamp Asheville 2020
