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Dawn Pedersen<\/a> 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n We\u2019re thrilled Dawn will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Putting Content First in the Design Process!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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 \ud83d\ude42 Be sure to give her a shout out on Twitter<\/a> and don\u2019t forget to use our hashtag #wcsac<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I want to help other WordPress users in my home town have a better website-building experience.<\/p>\n I started blogging with it in 2004 after comparing its features with other available platforms.<\/p>\n WordPress is my living now! I maintain the WP-driven website for Sacramento city College.<\/p>\n I primarily work with content and site architecture, but from time to time I polish the design elements and mechanics of my sites.<\/p>\n Obtaining content from clients is a very important aspect of the discovery process!<\/p>\n The Genius of Birds<\/em> by Jennifer Ackerman.<\/p>\n Crab pot at Joe’s Crab Shack.<\/p>\n The Last Kingdom.<\/p>\n Reading, drawing, Pokemon Go, and science advocacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019s … Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Q&A: Dawn Pedersen<\/span> Speaker Q&A With Dawn<\/h2>\n
What inspired you to give this talk at WordCamp?<\/h3>\n
How did you discover WordPress?<\/h3>\n
How has WordPress Or WordCamp impacted you?<\/h3>\n
How do you primarily work with WordPress?<\/h3>\n
What does the WordCamp theme Discovery mean to you?<\/h3>\n
What is the latest book you read?<\/h3>\n
What is your favorite restaurant? Favorite menu item?<\/h3>\n
What TV series are you current binging on\/into?<\/h3>\n
What do you do for fun?<\/h3>\n