Just as Leia Organa relied on Obi-Wan Kenobi, saying, “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope,” we rely on speakers to volunteer their time and craft presentations that educate and entertain. We also rely on new people joining the WordPress community and getting involved to continue the project for years to come.
With this in mind, the organizing team is thrilled to bring you another round of speaker announcements today, with one of our speakers clocking in at only 13 years old!
WordCamp Sacramento 2019 Speakers: Round 2
AmyJune Hineline
AmyJune has been an active participant in the Open Source community for over 3 years. A self-described “non-coder”, she has been a top 20 contributor to the Drupal project two years in a row. She is an active organizer of the A11yTalks meet-up and is passionate about accessible and inclusive information for all. Outside of doing work, she enjoys mycology, geocaching, and has a love for air-cooled Volkswagens.
Vasken Hauri
Vasken is currently the VP of Platforms and Systems at 10up, a leading provider of digital creative services for content creators. A strong believer in open source technologies, Vasken has spoken and hosted panels at numerous WordCamp, NERCOMP, and EDUCAUSE events, on subjects ranging from Green Computing to WordPress-based centralized authentication systems.
Chris Ford
Chris Ford has been managing WordPress projects for over a decade. For most of that time she was managing her own projects as an independent contractor focusing on design, branding and UX. A year and a half ago she traded that in for a position as a remote Project Manager at Reaktiv Studios, a WordPress VIP partner.
William Earnhardt
William works as a WordPress developer and core contributor at Bluehost. He’s been doing web development for over a decade in a variety of forms—at a major university, a global non-profit, a Fortune 500 company, and as a freelancer. Prior joining Bluehost he spent 6 years building and running WordPress multisite and multi-network environments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When not doing WordPress things, he loves hanging out with his two sons, playing soccer, working on his old Willys Jeep, fishing (especially from a kayak) and cheering on the Tar Heels.
Mary Baum
Mary Baum is the founder and principal of RacquetPress, a digital consultant to the tennis industry. Trained as a print designer before the web was born, Mary built her first site (wrong) in 1999 and started to learn real CSS and HTML in 2007—at the tender age of 47. Today she’s a big fan of design in the browser (after a few thumbnail sketches!) and all the modern CSS the browsers will support. She’s also started hanging out in the core developer chats and helping write the blog posts (and it’s giving her a swelled head.) Also high on her list: rare steaks, homemade hot fudge sauce, high backhand volleys and high-contrast serif type; the Genesis Framework, Boeing fighter jets and repeating patterns in Illustrator; and finally, Atomic Blocks for Gutenberg and the ad court.
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne McDaniel has been working in tech and open source since 2005. Once he dipped a toe into the world of Free and Open Source Software, he knew never wanted to work outside of it again. Dwayne first started building in Drupal and WordPress for the San Francisco Improv community in 2013, which lead him to his current role. As a Developer Advocate at Pantheon, he has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland and from MIT and Stanford.
Emily Lema
Emily is a sophomore in High School that plays around with WordPress. Everything that she knows, she learned from her father, Chris Lema!
Brent Jett
Brent is the Design Lead at Beaver Builder. He’s been working for nearly a decade as a graphic designer and web developer building websites on WordPress. Now he gets to design tools to help people create for the web. He spends his free time filling Instagram with pictures of his beagle.
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