Carol is the Principal and co-founder of FreeUp Web Studio and runs RadiateWP maintenance and support service for WordPress websites. She is the current Arizona WordPress Meetup Organizer with a membership of 2300+ around the Phoenix metro area. In her spare time, she can be found on deck cheering on her 15-year-old at swim meets, or in the stands cheering on her 10-year-old in basketball and baseball. She is the embodiment of the term “Mom-taxi”.

Raquel Landefeld is a professional cartwheeler with a young soul. In 2010 she co-founded Mode Effect a Phoenix-based WordPress agency. Intentional about community building, she believes that wherever her feet are is where the building happens. She is currently active in several communities from tech to government to neighborhoods and more.

On the personal side of her life she is a wife & mum, dancer, music lover, an amateur photographer, and has a 20-year-curated Wonder Woman collection.

Cory Jenkins hails from mile high Prescott, Arizona and is a Co-Founder/Developer at Aspen Grove Studios & Managing Partner at Divi Space. He is a WordPress Enthusiast, blogger and lover of all things tech. In his spare time, Cory enjoys spending time with his kids, cheering for the Dodgers, camping/fishing, and relentlessly hunting for sasquatch.

Betsy Cohen joined FanSided as Product Manager last year after running a boutique web design agency for 10+ years. She speaks at occasional conferences on the web design process, user experience, and WordPress, and hosts a local WordPress Meetup. Outside of work, Betsy is raising 3 digital-age children, and enjoys such analog activities as reading, yoga and hiking.

Leslie originally hails from Los Angeles CA but has made Phoenix her home. She runs a boutique agency Pacific So West which implements custom WordPress websites specializing in e commerce and subscription models.

Clancy started working with GoDaddy in customer support in 2005 and has enjoyed roles from Windows Administration to Agile Project Management. Currently based in Phoenix, AZ he is a Sr. Program Manager for GoDaddy Hosting for WordPress training and self help. In his free time he enjoys spending as much time with his 2 kids and lovely wife as possible, tending to his trees and cacti, all things Star Wars/Tolkien/Marvel/Pokémon, building Legos, and contributing back to the WordPress community. His favorite heroes are The Wasp, Captain America, and Ashoka Tano.

Justin Tucker is back-end developer at The Wirecutter. He’s active in the Arizona WordPress Group and outside of programming he can be found doing anything outdoors, from hiking to camping.

Andrea is a web developer at FanSided. Previously she built sites for Positive Element and managed WordPress sites at RadiateWP. Andrea is active in the Phoenix community, including the Arizona WordPress Meetups.

David Ryan is a WordPress Engineer on the Core CMS team at Meredith Corp (née Time Inc). In the past he’s worked at Arizona State University’s New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab, nonprofit newsrooms and Forrester Research.