For the first time for WordCamp Miami, we are happy to have our first “Women on WordPress” panel being held March 17th. Check schedule for exact time.
The Women in WordPress panel brings together a diverse group of women from across North America for an honest discussion. Aiming to inspire encourage he WordPress community, but women in particular, the panelists will discuss their achievements, struggles, and give advice to those just starting out. They will also talk about how men can be better allies to women overall, but especially to those who are just starting out their WordPress journey, whether in development, design, marketing, or blogging.
We have a great lineup of speakers:
Nakeesha Charles
My name is Nakeesha Charles. I was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. I lived in Atlanta, Georgia for ten years. I completed my undergraduate degree in journalism at Georgia State University in 2004. I have lived in the greater Baltimore, Maryland area. I have been dumb struck in love with Miami since my first visit in 2000. I relocated to Florida in 2005.
Tessa Kriesel
Agency and Community Engineer at Pantheon, Tessa has been a web developer for over 10 years. She enjoys front-end development but also loves to build sites from start to finish. She started in Joomla, moved into WordPress shortly after and most recently has been digging into Drupal.
She enjoys teaching others to code, mentoring junior developers and speaking at conferences and youth events. She is an instructor and retired Chapter Leader for Girl Develop It Minneapolis, WordCamp Minneapolis Organizer and founder of Outspoken Women. Tessa is a northern Minnesota native, but now lives in the Twin Cities. She loves dogs and enjoys helping local organizations rescue dogs in her free time.
Miriam Goldman
Miriam leads the development team at Pondstone, a boutique digital marketing agency in Canada’s national capital, Ottawa. She started playing around with WordPress for personal projects in 2009, and for professional projects two years later. Miriam is also one of the co-organizers for WordCamp Ottawa, and helps run the social media for the Ottawa WordPress community.
Natalia Real
Natalia Real started building websites on WordPress in 2012 and has been learning nonstop ever since. She’s a Web Designer/Developer-turned-Digital Strategist at Website Superhero and loves using technology to help make the world a better place.
Nat’s career path has taken her from copywriting and WordPress maintenance and optimization, to content marketing, team management, and SEO. She’s passionate about meditation, psychology, mountains, and bad puns.
Birgit Pauli-Haack
Since 1998 Birgit Pauli-Haack has worked with nonprofits as a web developer, a technology strategist, a trainer and community organizer. She founded Pauli Systems, LC in 2002, now a team of six. It is a 100% distributed company. Since 2010, her team has used WordPress to build new nonprofit sites and applications.
In her spare time, Birgit serves as a deputy with the WordPress Global Community team, as a WordPress Meetup organizer and a Tech4Good organizer.