Organizers

Laura is the Director of Technology for Marjoram Creative and Tarragon Works,  Marketing Communications agencies based in Atlanta. She has spent over 20 years building websites with a history of expertise in UX, eCommerce and Technical Project Management. She also holds a degree in Graphic Design.

Laura lives in St. Johns and can be found performing with her family band Radio Phillips when she is not unraveling technical puzzles. You can find her on twitter at @smartaleckl

Roles: Lead Organizer, Brand Designer, Web Developer

With a life-long passion for art and a BFA in Visual Communications, Stephanie is a branding specialist and digital designer. Stephanie is the owner of Flightless, specializing in hand-crafted logos and extending brands beyond the business card. She has been involved with the Florida WordPress community since 2014 and has been honored to share her knowledge at WordCamps Ann Arbor, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and US. Most weeks you will find her attempting to balance design and homeschooling, exploring the world of flavors she can invent in her kitchen, and sometimes on Twitter @sjbrinley.

Roles: Sponsor Coordinator, Swag Wrangler, Print Coordinator

With a unique combination of technical skills and a strong design eye, Karena has over a decade of experience in building her clients’ compelling, professional web presence. Karena runs Open Sky Web Studio in Jacksonville, FL, specializing in WordPress websites for small businesses and organizations since 2009. The organizer of the WPJax Meetup, Karena is a teacher at heart, striving to provide a creative and educational experience, without the scary tech talk.

Follow her on Twitter @karenalenore.

Role: Speaker Coordinator, Volunteer Coordinator

Aida is a mom & grandma, lover of the Lord, writer, multi-media artist, poet, speaker, and blogger. She owns LoveBuilt Life LLC, a Creative Arts & Lifestyle Company, where she teaches people to bring more creativity into their lives by living “Life from the art”.

She also builds websites for start-ups on a budget and enjoys regularly attending WordCamp conferences (as a volunteer, speaker, attendee and, now an organizer), where she can relish in the WordPress Community and fan the flame of her ongoing love of Wapuu.

Role: KidsCamp Coordinator

William Jackson, M.Ed. has been an educator and college professor for 30 years. He has been speaking on technology and social media since 2005, and blogging at My Quest to Teach since 2013. His goal is to attend at least one WordCamp in every state of the U.S. over the next 5 years. He has already spoken at WordCamps in Canada and Costa Rica. William wants to expand KidsCamp to include STEAM and STREAM, and encourage young adults to attend, participate, volunteer and speak at WordCamps across the nation.

Roles: KidsCamp Coordinator, Student Liaison

Andrea LeDew began her blog For Random Learning Comes in 2015, as a homeschool journalism project. She has been homeschooling her two teenaged boys, one with autism, for nine years.

She fills the blog with recent flash fiction and poetry, as well as older essays on homeschooling, parenting, and disability.

Andrea studied English lit, German, and law. Her work as a lawyer was interrupted by her first child, and has remained on the back burner, through three more. She lives in Jacksonvile, FL.

Roles: Social Media Wrangler

A native Floridian, Gary is a backend developer at Modern Tribe. After attending his first WordCamp in 2015, he cleaned up a few of his own plugins and put them in the WordPress repository. Often dabbling in a side project to satisfy his own curiosity, Gary can be found attending and sometimes speaking at Florida WordCamps. He is also one of three hosts of the free-style podcast, Binary Jazz.

When he’s not in front of his computer, Gary is playing with his kids or trying to learn a new obscure stringed instrument.

Role: Food, Beverage & Party Master

Ian is the founder of TitanHost, a Managed WordPress Hosting company and a Frontend Developer at Oyova Software in Atlantic Beach. Ian has been working with WordPress for over 5 years, doing functional app and custom theme development. When Ian isn’t coding, he loves spending time with his wife and daughter, playing tabletop games, video games, and his guitar.

Twitter: @iansvo

Role: A/V Coordinator

Born and raised in Florida, Scott Anderson is a backend engineer at WebDevStudios. A developer by trade he has had a passion for software development and WordPress for over seven years attending and speaking at WordCamps since 2017. When not helping buisnesses reach their goals, Scott spends his time with Connected Church helping non-profits and faith based organizations get organized and get seen online.

Follow him on Twitter @thriftydev

Role: Tech Wrangler