WordCamp Phoenix 2024

Feb 9-10 at Phoenix College in Phoenix, Arizona

Organizers

  • Raquel Manriquez

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    Lead Organizer

    Raquel manages Community & Events for Elegant Themes and is a serial volunteer with a young soul. Intentional about community building, she believes that wherever her feet are is where she builds. Currently, she is active in several communities from tech ➡️ government ➡️ neighborhoods, and more.

    On the personal side of her life, she is a mum of older teens (#momhard), an active ballroom dancer, music lover, outdoors lover, general purveyor of sass, and loves spending time with her big, Indigenous family.

  • Carol Stambaugh

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    Speakers

    Carol has been creating WordPress websites for over 10 years. She is currently co-owner of RadiateWP. Her work also extends to the nonprofit sector with over 14 years of experience in executive roles. She is passionate about the WordPress open-source project and has volunteered with the WordPress community for over 12 years. She has served on the WordCamp Phoenix organizing team every year since 2012 and is the lead organizer of the Arizona WordPress meetup group planning events and helping teach WordPress to the public.

    Carol has been recognized throughout her career as President of AzSAE, awarded Association Executive of the Year by AzSAE, and featured in the open.film documentary about the WordPress Open Source project. 

  • Thomas Patrick Levy

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    Volunteers

    Thomas, an amateur strongman, poet, and WordPress developer.

    He’s been building and blogging on WordPress since 2008, when he accidentally won his first website contract. Since then he’s launched and contributed to dozens of WordPress plugins, projects, and websites.

    His favorite pastimes are eating too much, being snobbish about coffee, wearing little shorts, and bragging about his bench press.

  • Justin Nealey

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    Social/PR

    Nealey is a Senior Product Manager at GoDaddy by day and a freelance WordPress designer by night. He’s worked with WordPress for over 10 years and fell in love with the WordCamp community when he first helped at the GoDaddy Sponsor booth in 2017. From there, he’s tried to attend as many meetups and camps as he could, even speaking at a couple!

    He’s an aspiring street photographer so if you see him and also love photography, ask him about going around Phoenix to take some photos!

  • Chris David Miles

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    Website

    Chris is a Product Manager for Bluehost in Tempe, AZ. He has done freelance web design and front-end development for over a decade. He discovered WordPress in 2011 and has used it to build sites for clients and non-profits ever since.

  • Colton Zebe

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    Swag

    Colton Zebe started working with GoDaddy in customer support in 2013 and has enjoyed roles in Support and Sales Leadership, Channel Management, and Project/Program Management. Colton is based in Phoenix, AZ, and is currently a Product Operations Manager for the Managed WordPress product at GoDaddy, where he works across teams to improve and optimize WordPress support with the goal of making GoDaddy a top WordPress support provider.

    In his free time, Colton enjoys spending time with his 2 kids and wife, playing the Guitar, watching baseball, and playing sports.

  • Nathan Atkinson

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    Budget

    Nathan’s a developer that started his career as a Fullstack developer, frequently working in WordPress.

    Even though he no longer works on projects using WordPress, he loves the community and won’t leave.

    His hobbies are helping with conferences, drinking whiskey, watching horrible movies, playing board games, and traveling.

  • Aniza Valenzuela

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    Sponsor Team & Travel

    Aniza is a seasoned, multi-channel marketing manager with experience across the internet industry. A graduate of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Aniza combines her experience in business administration, ecommerce and marketing to help clients large and small succeed with their online strategy and presence.

  • Matt Adams

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    Design & Branding

    Matt Adams is the Creative Director for Factor 1 Studios, a digital creative agency. Dedicated to helping organizations and small businesses create powerful websites, brands, and marketing strategies. Matt is an avid competitive cyclist, runner, and apple geek.

  • Aniekan Udom

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    Printing

  • Roger Williams

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    Sponsor Team

    Loving life with my wife and doggos. Love the open web and all the folks who make it happen.

  • Amber Pechin

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    Content

    As a writer of words, and teller of stories, Amber is a vibrant entertainer and storyteller. She has vowed to only use her powers for good whether in business, on stage, or around her kitchen table with her four adult kids. Amber loves humans (they are delicious) and believes the secret to world peace was best summed up by the great Bill and Ted when they said, “Be excellent to each other.”   

    Chief Storyteller and all-around nerd at Amplitude Media, Amber builds brands, websites, and big ideas. Her specialty is crafting compelling brand stories about complicated topics for clients in highly technical, scientific, or academic industries. She loves to help people emotionally connect with and understand complex ideas. 

    When she’s not writing in her shed in Albuquerque you can find her traveling in her adventure van so she can see all the places, meet all the people and tell all the stories.