We are super excited to see all of these folks and more at our second WordCamp DC!
Let’s meet our second group of speakers:
Kimberly Cottrell
I’ve been a heavily-caffeinated, professional web developer for almost 10 years now, and have worked as a freelancer, an agency consultant, and these days, as a full-stack developer over at The Motley Fool’s Global Tech team.
Nick Croft
Nick “the Geek” Croft has been developing with WordPress for over a decade. Today he is a senior developer for Reaktiv Studios, a WordPress VIP Partner. He has created several plugins for WordPress.org mostly using the Genesis framework as well as custom work for clients and his employer. Nick is the author of the Genesis Explained, a book that focuses on Genesis theme framework. Lately, he has focused on writing highly efficient code, automating all the things, improving in Javascript and React, security, and accessibility. When he’s not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife, 4 children, and a puppy and lives on a quiet cul de sac in the Shenandoah Valley. He also enjoys home improvement projects, hiking, and river activities.
Sabrina Liao
Sabrina Liao has a passion for all things creative, fun and challenging. She has worked at a top agency on global brands in Asia as the Creative Director. Her work consists of UX research and educating future designers/developers at universities and providing digital solutions to Fortune 500 companies as well as government agencies. She has an extensive background in music, published seven books in Technology, life in New York City and Chinese Astrology, and also an avid tennis player/Federer fan. She looks forward to meeting, sharing and learning from other WordPress enthusiasts at WordCamps Worldwide.
Reed Piernock
Reed Piernock is on the Web Services team at Georgetown University. Reed is a senior front-end web developer, is a stickler about code standards and a major advocate for web accessibility. They are also a grad student who knits socks and sings in a competitive karaoke league.
Taylor Lovett
Taylor Lovett is the Vice President of Engineering at 10up, one of the biggest WordPress centric agencies in the world. Having been involved with WordPress since 2007, he is the creator of ElasticPress, contributed to WordPress core, authored popular plugins (downloaded over a million times), and spoken at many conferences across multiple continents. He is a lover of all things open-source. Other than developing web applications, Taylor is a lover of music. He enjoys listening to blues and jazz music as well as playing acoustic fingerstyle guitar.
Allie Nimmons
Allie is a self-taught WordPress user. She does support and community outreach at GiveWP and is a GoDaddy Pro Ambassador. She provided website design and development for 3 years and she currently runs Pixel Glow Maintenance, providing WordPress maintenance services to other busy business owners. She lives in Miami, Florida with her fiance, Greg. Her biggest joy comes from talking to other WordPress community members about how to maintain and foster positive and inclusive environments on the web.
Rian Kinney
Founder of Kinney Firm and eCommLegal, Rian is a tech and privacy attorney, legal consultant, and published author. Kinney Firm represents and advises founders and businesses of every size, from freelancers to enterprise; across industries in the areas of intellectual property, e-commerce, privacy and corporate law, as well as business and marketing strategy. Actively engaged in the Open Source and WordPress communities, she has spoken at conferences nationally and internationally on topics ranging from “The Future of Open Source” to “How to CYA Your Site” and “The Key Differences Between EU and US Privacy Law”. Rian was recently appointed Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association, Section on Science and Technology’s Committee on Open Source Software and she holds the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ CIPP/E and CIPM designations.
Francesca Marano
Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround, the independent web hosting company. She is the current release co-lead for WordPress, where she serves as the project coordinator. She founded C+B, a blog with an editorial staff of more than eighty authors offering advice for Italian female creative entrepreneurs. Francesca is a passionate speaker and you can find her around the world talking about WordPress, community, open-source, women in tech, and small businesses.
Aaron Jorbin
Aaron Jorbin is a polyhistoric man of the web who knows rabble-rousers get shit done. Currently, Aaron is the Director of Editorial Technology for Penske Media Corporation, where he supports the editorial and business teams on over 20 brands including Rolling Stone, Variety, and Footwear News. He is also a WordPress Core Committer that focuses on improving developer happiness and making the internet usable and enjoyable by everyone. He tweets at @aaronjorbin and can be found on his site https://aaron.jorb.in
Mark Wahl
Mark Wahl helps build teams and manage processes to create digital products and services, often using WordPress! He is Technical Director at the Jake Group, a DC-based digital agency.
Tracy Rotton
Tracy Rotton (she/her) is Founder and Principal of Taupecat Studios, an independent WordPress development agency based in North Bethesda, Maryland. She has been a web developer for over twenty years, and a WordPress developer for ten, specializing in custom theme and site development for nonprofits and the enterprise. She has spoken at WordCamps throughout the eastern United States and has been a core contributor to WordPress and related projects.
Afshana Diya
Afshana Diya is Growth Strategist & CMO of WPDeveloper where she is helping to accelerate business growth and the company is currently serving 500,000+ users from 120+ countries around the world. Prior to her current position, she has worked with a couple of WordPress brands to get results by changing the way they use their digital channels. She is the only female co-organizer of WordPress Dhaka Chapter, organized multiple meetups and WordCamp Dhaka 2019. She has also volunteered & spoken in different WordCamps around South Asia.
Nick Adams
Nick Adams is a Connecticut native living in New York and is the COO at WP Buffs. He loves talking about WordPress, design and business.