We’re thrilled to announce our lineup of speakers for WordCamp Northeast Ohio 2021! Our speakers have volunteered their time to share their knowledge and expertise with the WordPress community.
Learn more about them in our Meet the Speakers series and meet them at our online WordCamp Northeast Ohio Region event, May 22-23.
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Daisy Olsen
Daisy has worked in and around the WordPress community since 2007. She has spoken at WordCamps in New York City, Boston, Chicago, India, and Greece. She also helped to organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010. Currently, Daisy works for Automattic as a Developer Relations contributor on the WordPress open source project. In her spare time, you’ll often find Daisy listening to audiobooks while knitting. She loves to travel with her family and has often spent many weeks throughout the year visiting different places.
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Joe A Simpson Jr
During endless, sun-soaked days Joe A Simpson Jr works at Metro LA, one of the largest transit agencies in the country, fighting the good fight to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County. Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, Joe A Simpson Jr pivoted, focusing FIRST on rediscovering the things he truly loved — WordPress, creative passions, teaching tech, and truly giving back.
He twilights by actively contributing to the WordPress Community — founding two WordPress-based Meetups (WordPress, Elementor), speaking or volunteering at WordCamps, is currently on the Organizing team for WordCamp Santa Clarita 2021, part of a WordPress initiative at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), and is a SiteGround Ambassador.
Joe is a fledgling Front-End Web Developer, User-Experience Designer, a11y advocate specializing in WordPress solutions, and the host of the Back Down Memory Lane Podcast.
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Kyle Maurer
Kyle is an ambitious creator who lives to bridge gaps and bring people together. He used to be an entrepreneur but in 2017 walked away from the marketing agency he had cofounded five years prior. Since then he’s been working for Sandhills Development, a software company primarily focused on WordPress plugins. He’s currently the Director of Operations and also Product Manager for Easy Digital Downloads.
Kyle’s background includes lots of web development, marketing, management, teaching, public speaking, consulting, event organizing, podcasting, and product management.
He is also a father of three, a Toastmaster club president, a musician in a band, a craft beer lover, and a travel enthusiast.
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Maestro Stevens
Maestro Stevens loves helping minority-owned brands connect with their audience utilizing marketing strategy and automation. He is the founder of The Iconic Expressions marketing consultancy specializing in content marketing strategy based in Ohio.
Fun facts about Maestro: he’s a life-hacking martech nerd who loves Marvel movies and engineering with WordPress plugins.
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Michelle Frechette
Michelle Frechette is the Head of Customer Success at GiveWP. Michelle and the Customer Success team work with fundraisers all over the world to make the world a better place. Part of that is helping customers evaluate their websites and researching what works to convert site visitors to supporters and donors.
In addition to her work at GiveWP, Michelle is the Podcast Barista at WPCoffeeTalk.com, co-founder of underrepresentedintech.com, creator of wpcareerpages.com, a volunteer for BigOrangeHeart.org, author, business coach, and a frequent speaker at WordPress events. You can find out more at her website WorksByMichelle.com.
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