Everybody has a story. Her story, his story, their story, and our stories are powerful tools for building connections between the diverse individuals that have become the WordPress community. Through Hallway Chats, Topher DeRosia and Nyasha Green aim to dig into and share the stories of this wonderful community.
Kathy Drewien lives in Marietta, Georgia just outside of Atlanta. There she rescues abandoned, ugly, orphaned, broken, and non-productive websites for people and businesses who are ready for a change. She’s an organizer of WordCamp Atlanta and runs a local WordPress Meetup around there, too. And if that’s not enough, she’s also an organizer of WordCamp US.
Topher DeRosia is a Christian, husband, father, and WordPress developer in that order. By day, he runs iWitness Design with his business partner. Topher also curates HeroPress.com, a site that tells the stories of WordPress.
Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, teacher and mentor, and hardware and robot tinkerer from the Midwest.
Marjorie Ray is a digital strategist and web designer living in Southern Vermont. She is also a videographer, runs a toy company, and co-manages the Brattleboro WordPress Meetup.
Kendall Guillemette is a WordPress technical lead at Kanopi studios. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Bianca Welds is a WordPress freelancer from Jamaica who has been working with WordPress since 2005. She is the recipient of the 2017 Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for WordCamp US.