E. Anita Newman, DTM is a speaker, certified trainer and MC known for her energetic and humorous speaking style. Anita discovered her passion for public speaking during her college years and later honed her speaking skills as a longstanding member with Toastmasters International, where she achieved the highest distinction of Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) and served as Division Director, overseeing 26 Toastmasters clubs with over 800 members.

Also a Certified Trainer with The John Maxwell Team, Anita helps organizations improve the communication skills of their employees.

Most weekends you will find her hosting the performances at a prominent 1,200 seat performing arts theater in South Florida, where she has been the MC for the past two years.

I build brands, processes, and programs that deliver results. I’m a firm believer in people, truly constructive feedback, and the value of tangible results. If something’s efficient, effective, and sensible, I like it. In the few years that I’ve directed the revenue-focused marketing and analytics at FIU Business, we’ve grown annual revenues over $11,000,000 (yes, that’s per year) during a time when education revenues are shrinking. I lead two teams — a marketing/analytics team (5 people) and an academic/training team (40+ people) and we work together to build our individual and collective brands. Connect with me on LinkedIn; follow me on Twitter (@SensibleFolk); and catch my weekly #MarketingMinute videos on YouTube (and be sure to subscribe while you’re there).

Donata is the President of Termageddon and the engineer behind the policy questions and text. She is a licensed attorney and a certified information privacy professional. She often volunteers at the Illinois State Bar Association holding courses on the General Data Protection Regulation where she teaches other attorneys on the importance of privacy and what Privacy Policies should contain. Donata is the newsletter editor for the American Bar Association’s ePrivacy Committee and the Chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Chicago Chapter.

DAVID YARDE

David Yarde is an award winning designer and software engineer that is now focused on leveraging his 17+ years of lessons learned in design, software programming and building brand experiences to help individuals and teams build lovable products and cultures.

David helps brands fill the gaps within their creative and technology initiatives and is focused on building better communities by building better brands.

During Davids career he has helped to facilitate a variety of customer experience solutions involving developing creative teams, strategies, visual designs and software platforms for brands of all sizes from Avis, Merriam-Webster, and Walmart/Sam’s Club all the way to the startup owner with a passion to make the world better.

Bianca hails from Kingston, Jamaica where she works in corporate innovation. She has been a WordPress advocate since 2005 when she set up her first personal website, eventually moving into freelance WordPress consulting. She decided to get more involved in the global WordPress community, including speaking at WordCamps since 2016 and starting a local meetup in 2017. When she’s all recovered, you’ll also find her playing steel pan or salsa dancing.

Tara Claeys began her career in advertising and marketing in the early 1990’s. After her first child was born, she supplemented her full-time job as Mom with illustration and stationery design for clients around the world. Her extensive marketing background and understanding of business quickly became her focus. Founded in 2010, Tara’s agency, Design TLC, specializes in websites and digital marketing for small schools, enrichment programs, camps and education-focused nonprofits.

She’s given presentations on essential tools for productivity (her passion) as well as sharing examples of websites she has built with WordPress and panel discussions on freelance work. Tara as a WordPress DC organizer and enjoys traveling to WordCamp conferences. Along with Liam Dempsey, Tara uncovers the stories of people in the WordPress community in their podcast Hallway Chats.

When Tara isn’t redesigning websites, she can be found volunteering for a nonprofit, running, challenging you to get out of your comfort zone, or vacationing with her family.

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 the Co-organizer of the Lehigh Valley Meetup and Lehigh Valley WordCamp. She has been part of the organizing team of WCUS for the last 3 years.

Recently, Kim joined the support team at Paid Memberships Pro.