-
Anthony Ferrara
Design
Anthony is a problem-solving creative with a knack for Illustration, Identity, and UX Design. Formerly a UX designer at Coplex, Anthony has worked with clients like Pagely, LinkedIn, and Sequoia Capital across many different mediums.
When he’s not designing or hiking a mountain in the Arizona desert with his wife, Anthony plays drums for his local church and spends way too much time refining his Fantasy Football team.
-
Carol Stambaugh
Speakers
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 Lead Organizer with a membership of 2500+ around the Phoenix metro area.
In her spare time, she can be found on deck cheering on her 17-year-old at swim meets, or in the stands cheering on her 11-year-old in basketball and baseball. She is the embodiment of the term “Mom-taxi”.
-
Cory Jenkins
Lunch & Refreshments
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.
-
David Ryan
Website & Logistics
Dave Ryan is an Interdisciplinary WordPress Developer at Bluehost, where he focuses on helping build WordPress and supporting the WordPress community.
In the past Dave has worked for large publishers and universities, scaling high-traffic WordPress sites by blending his skills in information design, journalism and web development.
-
Jen Miller
Content & Outreach
Jen has served on the organizing boards of WordCamp LA, WordCamp Orange County, and WordCamp Riverside. She founded WomenWhoWP.org, a nonprofit and Meetup to support women in WordPress and she volunteers on the Make.WordPress.org Marketing Team. Jen also actively participates in several civic groups and serves on a county-wide Public Affairs Council for her church and has been instrumental in publicizing civic events in Southern California since 1989.
Combining her lifelong journalism, public relations and website experience, Jen Miller created NeedSomeoneToBlog.com, which offers highly-targeted, hyperlocal blogging service and provides additional internet marketing services through her AZ based company, Next Door Marketer Inc.
-
Justin Nealey
Social & PR
Nealey is a Hosting Channel Manager at GoDaddy by day and a freelance WordPress designer by night. He’s worked with WordPress for over 9 years and fell in love with the WordCamp community when he first helped at the GoDaddy Sponsor booth. From there, he’s tried to attend as many meetups and camps as he could, even speaking at a couple!
He’s an avid Elementor fan and loves helping others boost their personal brand. If you see him at a camp, come say hi!
-
Kathy Zant
Sponsors
Kathy Zant is new to Phoenix, but not to WordPress. Coming from the wilderness of far northern California was a big change, but the Phoenix WordPress community is making the desert feel like home.
Kathy is the Director of Marketing at Defiant, the makers of Wordfence, helping agencies and enterprise users make sense of WordPress security. She’s also a work-at-home mom to two amazing kids, both of whom play music, know how to pick locks, and recognize obfuscated PHP. When not playing with WordPress, Kathy can be found exploring mountain meadows with a happy golden retriever.
-
Machelle Veenstra
Volunteers
Machelle is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic on WordPress.com, helping others share their voice and use WordPress. A mother of a young toddler, puppy and oversized cat, Machelle spends her free time playing saxophone, going to tech conferences and hanging out with her family.
-
Matthew Clancy
Lead Organizer
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. Product Manager for GoDaddy WordPress Hosting. 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.
-
Max Clavelli
Max has been independently making movies since his early teen years and is the Assistant Director of Photography & Editor at Defiant. In the past, he has worked with media production companies including Helikon Media in Northern California.
-
Mike Bruch
Printing & Swag
A Technical Writer at GoDaddy, Michael Bruch, helps folks inside and outside the organization better understand Hosting and WordPress. Nearly all of his time away from the office is spent with friends and family, traveling or both.
-
Nathan Atkinson
Budget
Nathan Atkinson is a Sr. Software Engineer at BIG YAM, The Parsons Agency. While there he’s been able to work on tons of projects using different technologies, including WordPress. In his spare time he helps out with tech conferences and film festivals. He’s hyped to give back however he can to the tech community, especially here in the Valley. It’s because of Meetups that he’s a developer.
-
Raquel Landefeld
Venue & Parties
Raquel Landefeld is the Event Coordinator for Elegant Themes and a serial volunteer with a young soul. In 2010 she co-founded Mode Effect, a Phoenix-based WordPress agency that specializes in WooCommerce integration. Intentional about community building, she believes that wherever her feet are is where the building happens. Currently, she is active in several communities from tech to government to neighborhoods and more. On the personal side of her life, she is a wife & mum, an active dancer, a music lover, an amateur photographer, and has a 20-year-curated Wonder Woman collection.
