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Just back from four years in the high desert of California, St. Louisan Mary Baum is the founder and principal of RacquetPress, which builds Genesis child themes and more for the tennis industry.

A veteran creative and degreed designer, she speaks on WP design and development and helps organize WordCamp St. Louis.

Since 1998 Birgit Pauli-Haack has worked with nonprofits as a web developer, a technology strategist, a trainer and community organizer. She founded Pauli Systems, LC in 2002, now a team of six. It is a 100% distributed company. Since 2010, her team has used WordPress to build new nonprofit sites and applications.

In her spare time, Birgit serves as a deputy with the WordPress Global Community team, as a WordPress Meetup organizer and a Tech4Good organizer.

Mauricio Dinarte is passionate about Drupal, teaching, and traveling. Over the last few years, he has presented 25+ sessions and full day trainings in 12+ Drupal events across America and Europe, including DrupalCon Vienna.

In Nicaragua, his tropical home, Mauricio serves as a lead organizer of the Drupal community where he had helped to organize meetups, trainings, and a DrupalCamp. He also volunteers with the WordPress community and is part of the program team for WordCamp Managua 2018.

Based in Basalt, Colorado, Lindsay Halsey is a co-founder of WP SEO Hub, a do-it-yourself WordPress SEO platform, and partner of webShine, a search engine marketing agency. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Economics and spent several years in the outdoor industry as a mountain guide and ski patroller. In 2008 Lindsay made the leap into search engine marketing. Her primary interest is search engine optimization for WordPress websites. Outside of the office, Lindsay is a mom, wife and enthusiastic skier and biker. She also is the founder of a nonprofit in Tanzania, To Return.

Melanie G Adcock has been designing websites since the late 90’s. In May of 2010 Melanie became a full-time freelance Web Designer / Developer. She has been using WordPress exclusively since 2011. Her current clients include several small businesses, continuing care retirement communities, churches, and other non-profit organizations.

Melanie Adcock is a past presenter at WordCamp Atlanta, WordCamp Birmingham, and WordCamp Miami and various local WordPress MeetUp Groups. She lives in Stuart, Florida.

Michelle is an independent graphic designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.

She loves the open source community, and when she is not working on projects she speaks/volunteers/organizes at events and workshops around the country. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”

Dwayne has been working in tech and open source sales since 2005. He knew as soon as he started working with Java middleware developers he never wanted to work outside of open source ever again. Dwayne first started building in Drupal and WordPress for the San Francisco Improv teams and projects. He fell in the love the community and then found a position at Pantheon at the end of 2013.

As a Community and Agency Success Manager he has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland to MIT and Stanford.

Andrew currently works for Pantheon providing consulting for their agency partners and giving back to the WordPress community.

As a former web developer, Andrew spent his time on large scale projects for clients such as AMC Networks, Frito Lay, National Van Lines and more. With over 10 years of web development experience, specializing in WordPress, he is a seasoned veteran.

Joshua is a husband, father, smart-ass (his words, not ours), rabble-rouser, co-founder of Pagely, inventor of managed WordPress Hosting. A 15 year veteran of the web industry leading teams in design, marketing, and product development. He thinks an old fashioned work ethic is more important than a round of funding.

Agency and Community Engineer at Pantheon, Tessa has been a web developer for over 10 years. She enjoys front-end development but also loves to build sites from start to finish. She started in Joomla, moved into WordPress shortly after and most recently has been digging into Drupal.

She enjoys teaching others to code, mentoring junior developers and speaking at conferences and youth events. She is an instructor and retired Chapter Leader for Girl Develop It Minneapolis, WordCamp Minneapolis Organizer and founder of Outspoken Women. Tessa is a northern Minnesota native, but now lives in the Twin Cities. She loves dogs and enjoys helping local organizations rescue dogs in her free time.

Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround. She is part of the WordPress community team, organising Meetups and WordCamps in Torino and taking part in many other WordPress events worldwide.

She founded C+B, a blog with an editorial staff of more than sixty authors offering daily advice for Italian female creative entrepreneurs.

Lead Mobile Engineer at Crossfield, I build awesome mobile products with a special care on crafting slick and engaging user experiences. He pioneered live video streaming back in 2008 on the very first iPhone SDK (that’s what it was called back then) building the now deceased Orb Live app at Orb Networks, Inc (acquired by Qualcomm in 2013).

Miriam leads the development team at Pondstone, a boutique digital marketing agency in Canada’s national capital, Ottawa. She started playing around with WordPress for personal projects in 2009, and for professional projects two years later. Miriam is also one of the co-organizers for WordCamp Ottawa, and helps run the social media for the Ottawa WordPress community.

Brian Richards is the creator of WPSessions.com and has been using WordPress since 2007 and training and leading development teams since 2011. In addition to investing his time into training, Brian has had the opportunity to work with many amazing WordPress agencies and experts over these last several years. This has allowed Brian to help develop sites for Microsoft, Disney, TIME, YMCA, and numerous others. Brian has an affinity for self-directed learning and helping others to develop skills and workflows to better solve important and complicated problems. He can’t resist helping good people do great things.

Rodrigo Donini is a nerd, developer, teacher, husband, dad, curious about all the things around him and not necessarily in this order. He is speaker, WordPress evangelist very involved with the community and currently is Toptal Software Engineer living in the south of Brazil.

He works as developer remotely for 8 years exclusively with WordPress, working on different projects from the simplest to the most complex. Also, he is an organizer of WordPress Meetups and WordCamp Porto Alegre, in Brazil.

Syed Balkhi is an award winning young entrepreneur with several 7 figure online businesses. He was recognized as the top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by United Nations. His work has been featured in Forbes, Inc, Washington Post, FoxBusiness, Entrepreneur, Wired, and many top publications.