Six new people are joining the WordCamp Philly organizing team for 2019: Yardell Perkins, Amy Letson, Allison Blanda, Alyssa Hogan, Donna Botti and Tom Carney. Welcome!
They will join six returning organizing team members in the planning of this year’s event.
Yardell Perkins a former IT hardware and sysadmin geek who got burnt out on the idea of keeping up with all of the little things necessary to perform proper hardware and sysadmin work. He set out to reinvent himself as a software geek and was able to do so largely through WordPress. When he’s not further self-educating himself in proper software work, he exercises, reads or volunteers his time to organizations and causes he believes in and feels that he may be of some benefit to.
Amy Letson Amy designs and builds websites for the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University. A regular at both the Philadelphia and Philly ‘Burbs WordPress Meetups, she’s been volunteering at WordCamp Philly for a couple of years. Amy has a thing for cameras, fine art, flower gardens, Assam tea, voter education, and web accessibility.
Allison Blanda helps the biggest publishers in the world implement WordPress as the leader of the WordPress VIP relationship management group. In her free time she loves exploring the Philadelphia food scene.
Alyssa Hogan is a Web and Media Specialist at the University of Pennsylvania. She loves Philadelphia, WordCamps, iced coffee, crossword puzzles, and roaming the city with her wife and 1-year-old son.
Donna Botti is a speaker and the owner of Delos Incorporated, providing websites and digital marketing strategy and implementation to businesses and nonprofits who want to grow their online presence. She enjoys hanging out with her family, the outdoors, and Italian wine.
Tom Carney is a Digital Project Manager at 2one5 Creative, a creative marketing company based in Philadelphia, PA. He has been designing and developing custom WordPress themes and plugins since 2009. He loves speaking on WordPress, Gutenberg blocks and React/Redux development. When not designing/developing on the web, you can find him at a Philly sporting event, concert or the latest movie in the theaters.
To see the full WordCamp Philly 2019 team, visit the Organizers page.
The WordCamp Philly team is grateful to everyone who applied to volunteer their time and talents for the event. We hope to see all our applicants involved in some capacity, whether as an organizer, a volunteer, a speaker or a sponsor.