Get To Know Dawn Pedersen

Dawn Pedersen first learned a morsel of HTML in Y2K, and it was the sunrise of a beautiful love affair. Her passion for great user experience has led to a career as the webmaster (how’s that for a Throwback Thursday word?) for Sacramento City College, and as a web design teacher at Art Institute and other colleges. Her fondness for WordPress began with a little self-hosted blog in 2004, and she has been a WordCamp fanatic since 2011. She holds degrees in art and education, and is finishing another in biology. Dawn lives with her husband, son, and cat in West Sacramento.

We’re thrilled Dawn will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Putting Content First in the Design Process!

Speaker Q&A With Dawn

To help you learn even more about Dawn, we asked her to answer a few questions for us, some WordPress-related, and some others we think you’ll appreciate 🙂 Be sure to give her a shout out on Twitter and don’t forget to use our hashtag #wcsac.

What inspired you to give this talk at WordCamp?

I want to help other WordPress users in my home town have a better website-building experience.

How did you discover WordPress?

I started blogging with it in 2004 after comparing its features with other available platforms.

How has WordPress Or WordCamp impacted you?

WordPress is my living now! I maintain the WP-driven website for Sacramento city College.

How do you primarily work with WordPress?

I primarily work with content and site architecture, but from time to time I polish the design elements and mechanics of my sites.

What does the WordCamp theme Discovery mean to you?

Obtaining content from clients is a very important aspect of the discovery process!

What is the latest book you read?

The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman.

What is your favorite restaurant? Favorite menu item?

Crab pot at Joe’s Crab Shack.

What TV series are you current binging on/into?

The Last Kingdom.

What do you do for fun?

Reading, drawing, Pokemon Go, and science advocacy.