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About Rocío Valdivia:

Community Wrangler at Automattic. Deputy of the Global Community Team of WordPress.org

Computer engineer by the University of Seville. Started building websites in 2007. Open Source advocate. I love traveling and meeting personal challenges. I specialized in BuddyPress, a tool for developing social networks.

I work at Automattic as a Team Lead and Community Wrangler at WordCamp Central since 2015. Along with the rest of the team, I’ve been co-organizer and mentor of WordCamp Europe 2015-2022. WordPress Meetups mentor and organizer in Seville, Nuuk, Marbella, and three WordCamps Sevilla. WordPress developer and community strategist, responsible for the WordCamp Incubator Global Program, and mentor of WordCamps all around the globe.

Co-author of the book “WordPress para Dummies” (2012). I also speak at conferences and seminars about WordPress, BuddyPress, and Community strategy.

Find Rocío Valdivia:  Rocio.blog | Twitter | LinkedIn

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About Rene Morozowich:

Based in Pittsburgh, Rene is a digital strategist and website magician who loves helping creative, service-based businesses develop their online presence. She’s also passionate about business books, goal setting and finances.

Find Rene Morozowich: Rene Morozowich LLC | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

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About Alexandra Spalato:

Alexandra Spalato is on a mission to evangelize the power of Gatsby to the WordPress community as she is convinced that it is the future. She is a freelance developer and entrepreneur with several years of experience working as a WordPress expert at Codeable and has helped many clients around the world by building their online presence through high quality custom theme development.

Alexandra has decided to completely focus on Gatsby and has created https://gatsbywpthemes.com/

Born and raised in France. After many years in Paris, she is now living in the beautiful Spanish island of Mallorca.

Find Alexandra Spalato: Gatsby Wp Themes | Twitter

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About Maddy Osman:

Maddy Osman operates The Blogsmith, an SEO content agency for B2B tech companies that works with clients like HubSpot, Automattic, Kinsta, and Sprout Social. Maddy’s background in WordPress web design contributes to a well-rounded understanding of SEO and how to connect brands to relevant search prospects. Learn more about their process and get in touch to talk content strategy: www.TheBlogsmith.com

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About Cate DeRosia:

Cate is a serial volunteer who has helped organize everything from her local meetup to WCUS 2021. Currently, she’s helping with marketing and communications for Big Orange Heart and WordFest Live and is leading the expansion of HeroPress and is the cohost of the Hallway Chats podcast.

In her spare time, she’s downsizing life to run away from home with her husband and spend the next few years traveling the US in their RV, Agnes.

Find Cate DeRosia: The HeroPress Network | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

About Naoko Takano:

Naoko is a full-time contributor to the WordPress Polyglots and Community Teams, sponsored by Automattic. She has been involved in the WordPress community through translation and event organization for over 17 years. As one of the Polyglots Global Mentors and Japanese GTE, she helps global and local WordPress translation contributors make WordPress accessible in languages other than English.

Find Naoko Takano: Automattic  | Twitter

About Jamie Lewis:

Jamie Lewis is a Growth Manager with a tech startup, Oliver POS, that specializes in creating an adaptable point of sale solution for WooCommerce shop owners.

She holds degrees in writing and design and is completing her MSc thesis in Digital Marketing and Data Analytics. She’s worked in ad agencies and non-profit organizations in roles comprising marketing and communications, writing, and design, and she’s passionate about understanding the intersection of data, psychology, and creative marketing and communications — and WordPress, of course.

When she’s not at work, you can find her in the garden or spending time with her two-year-old daughter.

Find Jamie Lewis: Jamie Lewis & Oliver POS  | Instagram | LinkedIn

Lindsay Halsey is a co-founder of Pathfinder SEO and partner of webShine. As an SEO professional, her primary interest is search engine optimization for WordPress websites. Lindsay enjoys teaching business owners and web professionals about holistic SEO practices with a focus on actionable tactics that create results.

Find Lindsay Halsey: Pathfinder SEO | Twitter | | LinkedIn

About Kathy Darling:

Kathy Darling is a self-proclaimed reformed civil engineer, turned WooCommerce developer. Her side hustle is as an international athlete playing team handball. From a purely logical standpoint, handball has been a terrible career choice because it tends to pay negatively and has put a lot of wear and tear on her body, and she ain’t gettin’ any younger. But she’s been able to compete in over 100 international matches and live and play professionally in three different countries!

You can learn more about Kathy’s plugins, including Name Your Price, Mix and Match, Free Gift Coupons, and more at kathyisawesome.com.

Find Kathy Darling: Backcourt Development / Kathy is Awesome | Twitter

About Lisa Ghisolf:

Lisa Ghisolf is Gizmo Creative Factory, with 20+ years in design and development, and 18 years in business. She’s worked with TBWAWorlldHealth, the National Retail Foundation, USG & many others. Aside from putting out fires, she has designed and built robust WordPress sites since 2008, starting nostalgically with HTML back in 1996. She enjoys craft brews, traveling and finding people who remember what a BBS is.

Find Lisa Ghisolf: Gizmo Creative Factory, INc | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

About Torre Capistran:

Torre Capistran is the Owner and Creative Lead at Hooked On Code, a WordPress agency specialized in creating flexible and easy-to-maintain websites using the Divi Theme for corporations. They are highly deadline-oriented, and have created a structured website development process that turns their clients into raving fans and real world besties.

Torre has two young children, is obsessed with her Peloton Bike, and loves languages and panda bears.

Find Torre Capistran: Hooked On Code | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

About Amber Hinds:

Amber Hinds is the CEO of Equalize Digital, a Certified B Corporation and website accessibility consulting firm striving to create a world where all people have equal access to information and tools on the internet, regardless of ability. Since 2010, Amber has led design and development projects for nonprofits, K-12 and higher education institutions, government agencies, and businesses of all sizes. User experience has always been a primary focus of Amber’s work, and after having the opportunity to experience first-hand the importance of accessible websites through a blind acquaintance, she founded Equalize Digital. Amber is a corporate member of teh International Association of Accessibility Professionals, frequently speaks on accessibility-related topics, and has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and CNBC, among other media outlets.

Find Amber Hinds: Equalize Digital | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

About Courtney A Robertson:

Courtney Robertson is a WordPress instructor at Code Differently. She synthesizes all the languages under WordPress into a cohesive junior developer curriculum. When she isn’t coding, she is enjoying her 2 preschool aged children and gardening.

Find Courtney A Robertson: Courtney A Robertson | Twitter  | Instagram | LinkedIn

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About Amanda Gorman:

Amanda Gorman helps nonprofits and wellness-based businesses build thriving online communities. As a Customer Success Manager at GiveWP she works diligently each day to assist nonprofits in growing their communities and receiving more donations online to make a bigger impact in the world.

As an SEO consultant, she’s passionate about tending to the internet like a gardener would tend to their garden, so it can become a safe and fun place to connect again.

Amanda uses her SEO superpowers to help her clients better understand their purpose, their audience, and how to better reach their people. Amanda is in love with her husband Casey, her one-year old Ronan, her nephew Jackson, and their dog Topanga whom all live together in Rochester, New York.

Find Amanda Gorman: Impress.org/GiveWP and freelance SEO Consultant | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

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In this episode of Women in WP, we talk to Lisa Sabin-Wilson about everything from mommy blogging, political blogging, to literally writing the book on WordPress.

About Lisa Sabin-Wilson:

Lisa Sabin-Wilson is the Chief Operating Officer, and Co-Founder, of WebDevStudios (WD3, LLC). In this role, she provides the leadership, management, and vision necessary to ensure WebDevStudios has the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and people systems in place to effectively grow the organization and to ensure financial strength and operating efficiency.

Prior to her role with WebDevStudios, Lisa operated her own freelance business for 10 years, starting in 2003, providing custom WordPress design and development services, as well as technical support and hosting, to her WordPress clients. Lisa has 14 years of experience delivering WordPress solutions to clients, both large and small.

Lisa is the subject matter authority on WordPress and is the For Dummies™ brand (John Wiley & Sons Publishing) franchise author on all things WordPress due to her extensive experience and knowledge on the platform and shares it as the author of several WordPress-related books, including the best-selling WordPress For Dummies now in its 9th Edition released on January 7, 2021.

Find Lisa Sabin-Wilson: WebDevStudios | Twitter |  LinkedIn

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About Cousett Hoover:

Cousett is known as Techie Mamma. She is the mom of 2 boys and loves all things tech-related. I have worked with WordPress since 2005 and have been contributing to the community since 2014, presenting at WordCamps, organizing WordCamps and meetups, and contributing to documentation and accessibility. I teach DIY mompreneurs how to maximize technology, start their business, and live the lifestyle they want.

Find Cousett Hoover: Techie Mamma | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

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About Sabrina Zeidan:

WordPress scaling fan, she is fond of performance optimization, WordPress Multisite, and swimming.
WordCamp Kyiv co-organizer.
Founder at SpeedGuard, a WordPress plugin to keep an eye on your site speed.

Find Sabrina Zeidan: SpeedGuard | Twitter | Facebook  | LinkedIn

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About Jodie (Riccelli) Fiorenza:

Jodie (Riccelli) Fiorenza sits as the Director of Business Development at WebDevStudios. Since starting with the company in 2016, she has been responsible for creating unique web strategies and solutions for clients including Viacom, The National Domestic Violence Hotline, and The Society of Women Engineers. Jodie brings twenty years of sales and marketing experience to WebDevStudios. Her marketing expertise and ability to restructure and to systematize businesses has been recognized by business leaders in many fields including media, consumer product goods, and nonprofits.

She was on the organizing team for WordCamp US in Philadelphia and can be found speaking at WordCamps across the country. She is on the advisory board for PHL Diversity (a division of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau), Blackboard Labs board, is a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of The Recording Academy, and volunteers at PAWS (Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society).

In her downtime, she shares life experiences about screwing up on Izzabeth.com and has been known to get lost in old bookstores avoiding the fact that there is no more shelf space at home. Jodie lives in Philadelphia with her pups, Sir Frankie and Arya Bark.

Find Jodie (Riccelli) Fiorenza: WebDevStudios | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

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About Megan Rose:

Megan is a web developer in the Cleveland area specializing in WordPress. She is the Technology Manager at KHM Travel Group, a leading host travel agency. Neopets first introduced her to coding.

Find Megan Rose: | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

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About Stephanie Wells:

Steph Wells is the founder and CTO of Formidable Forms. She was a Registered Nurse, then went self-taught developer when the first little bundle-of-joy came along in 2007.

Find Stephanie Wells: Formidable Forms | Twitter

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About Monique Dubbelman:

Monique Dubbelman works as an independent UX designer and content strategist for her own company BOE!media since 2011. In 2016, she graduated from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences as a bachelor in information management. Building user-friendly websites with WordPress is an important part of her work. When she’s not glued to her phone or computer, she likes to whisper to earthworms in her vegetable garden.

Find Monique Dubbelman: BOE!media | Twitter |  LinkedIn

About Amy Hall:

It’s not a surprise that Amy Hall is referred to as the MacGyver of MailChimp. For the last ten years, Amy has been taking content management out of the hands of business owners who are already juggling too many tasks. Not only is she a MailChimp Partner & Expert, but she builds WordPress websites, writes optimized content, and provides hands-on WordPress training to her clients.

When it comes to speaking, Amy is a natural. After all, she taught blogging and WordPress at Mira Costa College. Amy is in her element when showing Meetups and WordPress users how to optimize their forms, perfect their lead generation, and make their WordPress sites perform.

When she’s not training clients on how to best create their business funnel, she spends time with her husband, a minister in Carlsbad, takes her grandkids to museums, painting classes, and enjoying nature.

Find Amy Hall: AmyHall.biz | Twitter | Facebook  | LinkedIn

About Lisa: BSEE/CS, MSCS. Web Diva® for 20+ years. Knitting enthusiast. Curly girl. Cookie artiste. Obsessive wordsmither. Musical theatre devotee. Writer at the GoDaddy Blog. Author of “Web Diva Wisdom: How to Find, Hire, and Partner with the Right Web Designer for You.” Married 39 years to a now-retired software engineer who worked in satellite operations. 2 adult children (one engineer, one veterinarian), 1 grandson.

Find Lisa Stambaugh: Website | Twitter | Book

About Mary: I am a Product Manager at How Do You Tech, we curate useful answers to specific questions in tech. I tech #WordPress daily, building and managing sites and apps for clients. I teach digital skills at Uwani Hub. I love cats, photography, rabbits & travelling.

Find Mary: Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Instagram

About Evangelia Pappa: Studied Computer Science and Communications. Works as Technical Customer Support Representative (for Greece, Malta, Cyprus and West Balkan countries) for Asus. IT technician, with experience in customer support and also in hospitality services. In addition, having former experience at journalism and radio producing, currently responsible of PR and marketing solutions for the WordPress Greek Community.

Passionate about involvement, openness, accessibility and volunteering at WordPress Greek Community.

In love with blogging, travelling and people, as well as customer support.

Organiser at WordPress Larissa Meetup, WordCamp Athens 2016, WordCamp Athens 2017, WordCamp Thessaloniki 2018, WordCamp Athens 2019 and WordCamp Europe 2019.

Find Evangelia Pappa: Website | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

About Bethany: Bethany Siegler (of UniqueThink Online Marketing & Web Design) specializes in helping low-tech folks get comfortable with their WordPress websites. At Boulder Digital Arts and the University of Colorado, she has taught students how to use WordPress for their own websites and blogs.

In 2005, Bethany started using WP for blogging, and by 2007 she was an enthusiastic WordPress evangelist. She’s been building sites, teaching and presenting ever since.

In addition to WordPress, Bethany has created fun marketing campaigns for Andrea Vahl/Grandma Mary (social media expert), Frank Black (Pixies), OfficeTime, Boulder County, Fender Guitar, SONY, and Budweiser.

Bethany is an online marketing consultant, speaker and instructor who specializes in email marketing, social media, marketing partnerships, and WordPress.

She has spoken at WordCamp Boulder in 2010 and Denver in 2012, 2015 and 2016.

Find Bethany: Website | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn