Announcing WordCamp DC’s Speakers – Part 3

We are super thrilled with our amazing lineup of speakers and are excited to see them all present at WordCamp DC. This post is introducing group three. If you missed it, check out the speakers we’ve already introduced in group one and group two!

Mike Schroder

Mike Schroder is a cross-cultural kid, coffee-drinking sailor, and lover of Open Source.

He’s a WordPress Core Developer who specializes in the Media component, was Release Lead for WordPress 4.5, and works as Director of WordPress Strategy at DreamHost.

You can find him blogging on geeky things at getsource.net.

Sang-Min Yoon

For the past eight years, Sang has designed, developed and maintained websites for many great companies, including Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft, SiriusXM Radio and Smithsonian Institution. Currently, Sang works for Gannett where he primarily works on USAToday.com.

Michelle Schulp

Michelle is an independent graphic designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.

She loves the open source community, and when she is not working on projects she speaks/volunteers/organizes at events and workshops around the country. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”

Scott Stancil

Scott Stancil Scott is currently an Excellence Wrangler at Automattic, with a focus on automated testing of the WordPress web and mobile platforms. Prior to this he held a variety of jobs for a variety of DC defense contractors, working on everything from systems engineering to software development.

Tim Sisson

Tim loves WordPress and enjoys leveraging it to meet businesses needs. He leads the Customer Community Team at BoldGrid and is passionate about nonprofit usage and e-commerce.

When he is not tinkering with WordPress Tim spends his time on adventures with my awesome wife Lisa, three daughters Autumn, Stella, & Petra.

Emilia Kubo Kirschenbaum

Emilia is an experienced technical manager with a background in administering complex website and app development projects. She works with cross functional teams to respond to technical questions, consult on project approach, and manage development and migration work; and acts as the client advocate internally on complex technical projects with significant development or migration requirements. Emilia has experience managing the entire development lifecycle from requirements creation to deployment with internal and third-party development teams, including timeline management and stakeholder communication. She holds a BS in Business and Economics from Lehigh University.

John Victoria

John Victoria lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and is the owner of Polianna, a boutique digital marketing agency specializing in search engine optimization (SEO). He’s consulted with local businesses in the DMV area as well as major multi-million dollar international brands on their search engine optimization efforts. He’s also ranked #1 on Google for “Virginia SEO Expert.” Aside from his work, he currently serves as the Vice President of Marketing and Outreach for the Filipino Young Professionals of Washington D.C., and is the Deputy Chairman for the National Federation of Filipino American Associations, Region 2. Victoria has worked locally in helping support Asian Pacific Islander American Vote and the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project.

Emily Patterson

Emily Patterson is the founder of Bee Measure, a firm that helps nonprofit and government clients use data to create effective digital content and reach their target audiences.

Drawing on her experience at Public Broadcasting Service and Better Business Bureau, she founded Bee Measure to help nonprofits take advantage of this brand new field. She believes that data can help organizations of all sizes work smarter and do more with limited budgets.

When she’s not getting nerdy at work, Emily enjoys the outdoors, reading and sampling Charlottesville’s many breweries. Emily is also a PMI-certified Project Management Professional.

Tracy Schorn

Tracy Schorn is the creator of the popular advice site ChumpLady.com and author of “Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life” (Hachette 2016). When she’s not giving snarky advice or drawing cartoons, she’s a journalist at Washington Lawyer magazine (D.C. Bar).

Her WordPress credentials — she single-handedly build a blog in WordPress (Genesis theme), has traffic of around 500K page views per month (over 14 million page views in 5 years), monetized the thing, and somehow got a book deal from it all.

Jason Wasser

Jason Wasser is the Director of Technology for Made by We, a local DC agency with a focus on social good. With 7 years of development experience, Jason believes a successful website must offer ease of use for both the administrator and the visitor.

William Jackson

William Jackson graduated from South Carolina State University earning a Bachelor’s in Education degree, he furthered his education earning a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Webster University with a focus on Educational Technology, Social Media and STEM.

William’s career involves past teaching with NASA as an Internet and Technology instructor, technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education and current Professor with Edward Waters College teaching Educational Technology, Social Media and STEM.

William is not only an educator, but he is a Social Media Consultant, presenter on Bullying and Cyberbullying, Internet Safety and his passion Blogging and Writing.

Michael Dance

Michael is a Senior Developer at CHIEF, a digital agency based in Washington D.C. and Portland. He started making a living with WordPress eight years ago, after realizing that he couldn’t be a screenwriter if he spent all his time coding instead of writing. He lives in Washington D.C. and really likes clean code, standards compliance, and playing volleyball on weekends.

Lauren Burton

Lauren is the Director of Technology for Subject Matter, where she combines her passion for technology with her love of creative advocacy. She champions technical strategy and solutions for clients, focusing on open source CMSs and frameworks. She also teaches frontend development at General Assembly.

Annie Smidt

Annie Smidt has been designing for over two decades and working with WordPress since it was a baby. Her Boston-based company, Durable Creative, creates strategic branding, graphic design and web sites for arts and culture, non-profit, and other mission-based organizations. Once, in the 90s, she wrote and designed an entire one-off book about typography for her best friend so he could share her excitement. (She still doesn’t know if he read it.)