Meet Our WordCamp Philly 2019 Speakers: Second Round

Aisha Adams is a social media influencer with a heart for community economic development. Through her personal platform, Nappy Thoughts, Aisha has been a resource to individuals and families healing themselves from mental, emotional, and physical trauma. Her written work has appeared in publications like The Asheville Citizen Times, The Asheville Grit, and The Final Call.

Aisha has a bachelor’s degree in English with a concentration in creative writing. She has a master’s degree in post-secondary and adult education. Aisha is also the founder of the Aisha Adams Media Group, a firm that specializes in assisting small businesses with remaining relevant within their communities as they increase their revenue through marketing. Currently, Aisha is working on Equity Over Everything, a project to advance equity by closing the gaps in homeownership and business and social equity in under resources communities.

Lou has owned and operated his own graphic design studio since 1990. One of his first jobs out of art school was working for a typographer in Philadelphia, where he learned to love the visual impact of typographic form.

Early design years were spent doing marketing communication for retailers and corporate clients, as well as designing award winning book covers for publishers in Philadelphia and New York. Between 1999 and 2006, Lou taught visual design for print and new media at Temple University and at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. These days, brand marketing and web design is where the rubber hits the road.

Lou has several years of experience across all marketing platforms – including corporate identity, print advertising, package design, posters, brochures and catalogs, and of course design for the web and multimedia. He started working with a CMS called Expression Engine in 2009 and discovered WordPress shortly after. He soon began to befriend members of the WordPress community. The support throughout gave him the confidence to build in WP and sell those services to his clients.

Koa is a web developer and consultant hailing from Allentown and specializing in site speed and performance. He loves optimizing workflows and generally making things more efficient. You can often hear him muttering, “You gotta pump those numbers up – Those are rookie numbers!”, while checking his PageSpeed score.

Koa’s education and background blends a healthy mix of business, science, and technology. He currently works as a front-end developer at Dudnyk, a healthcare marketing and advertising agency specializing in pharmaceutical branding for drugs to treat rare diseases.

Joseph is a father of two amazing daughters who motivate him to get better every day. He also has a passion for experiencing all the things this world has to offer.

He owns a web development company that specializes in web accessibility, and he travels around North America teaching developers, designers, and agencies how to be ADA Section 508 compliant. He truly loves what he is doing. He is able to combine his passions for helping people and technology with his passion for web accessibility. He feels good knowing that he is helping a lot of people access the internet when they use a website built using WordPress.

Dan is the chief operating officer of DigitalCube, a company committed to supporting WordPress and its communities. He’s a web developer, AWS superfan, JAMstack advocate, and design thinking enthusiast.

Formerly a branding agency front-end lead working on projects for universities, nonprofits, and e-commerce, Dan has given workshops at events all over the world including WordCamp Europe, Serverless Conf Tokyo, DevOpsDays, Generate Conference, and WordCamp for Publishers on topics such as Docker, SaaS, security, design, and WordPress.

Beth Soderberg is an independent developer and digital communications strategist based out of Alexandria, Va.

She focuses on building thoughtfully architected websites that enable her clients to optimize their online presence while being empowered in managing their content. She is obsessive about clean code, solid design execution, and the implementation of cutting-edge, front-end technologies.

In her spare time, Beth is a co-organizer of WordCamp DC and the WordPress DC Meetup, has contributed to the WordPress Training Team, and was a founding organizer of the annual DCFemTech Hack for Good in Washington, DC.

Andy has been specializing in digital transformations for nonprofits for the past decade, with a focus on web. He currently works for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia as their WordPress website manager and email marketing manager.

You can learn more about him and his work at at andystitt.com.