Organizers

Michele is a WordPress Technical Specialist at Thrive Internet Marketing Agency and runs her own WordPress security and maintenance shop at 13Core. When not working, Michele is an organizer for WordCamp St Louis, WordCamp US 2018, WPKids Lead, and the Lead Organizer of the Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup. She also teaches beginners WordPress. When not logged in to her computer, she loves traveling with her family, enjoys reading a good book, taking pictures, and a lover of fine food and even better drinks.
Carbondale, IL | @michele_butcher

Born and raised in the Greater St. Louis area and has been using WordPress to create website since the mid 2000s. Alex is a Theme Developer at IQComputing and an avid support user. Currently a moderator at the WordPress Stack Exchange and can usually be found in the WordPress Support Chatroom. When not doing WordPress related things he enjoys a variety of boardgames and hiking!
St. Louis, MO | @howdy_mcgee

Mary Baum is the founder and principal of RacquetPress, which builds Genesis child themes and more for the tennis industry.

A veteran creative and degreed designer, Mary speaks on WP design and development and helps organize WordCamp St. Louis.

She’s partial to rare steaks, hard serves and high-contrast serifs; homemade hot fudge, high backhand volleys, Genesis hooks and Joshua trees.
St. Louis, MO | @marybaum

Jason is the Director of Development at Red8 Interactive where he leads a team in building custom WordPress solutions for small businesses. He also dabbles in theme and plugin development. When not working with WordPress, Jason can be found with his wife and daughter watching a Cardinals game.
St. Louis, MO | @jason_yingling

David is a systems engineer at Washington University in St. Louis, working with the University’s Office of Public Affairs to keep their key Web properties highly available. His specialties include high availability, load balancing, and tacos.
St. Louis, MO | @dsXLII

Dane is a freelance WordPress website developer and consultant. He works with small businesses and entrepreneurs to build websites with a focus on meeting real world business goals. Dane is actively stretching out to become a more involved member of the WordPress community. When not working with WordPress he enjoys geocaching with his wife and children, cooking, and reading.
Bloomfield, MO | @danemorgan

David Needham is a Developer Advocate at Pantheon where he focuses on education and inspiration to help developers find success. David also serves on the board of directors at Enjoy Creativity. David has been a public speaker since 2008 and an entrepreneur since 2000. David enjoys photography, getting nerdy about productivity, and playing board games with his wife and kids.
Champaign, IL | @davidneedham

Aaron is one of the luckiest WordPressers in St. Louis since his day job is doing theme and plugin development for Washington University’s WordPress sites. Outside of work he likes to get away from technology and spends time with his awesome wife while they travel, hike, fish, and camp.
St. Peters, MO | @coderaaron

Katie has been using WordPress for about four years now, and is a Project Manager with Element 74, a website design and custom software development company in Cape Girardeau, MO. In her spare time she enjoys hanging out with her dog, Rufus and planning her next trip.
Cape Girardeau, MO

A native Michigander, Jennifer moved to St. Louis in 2008 for college and decided to stay. Currently, she provides website support to insurance companies in 27 states. In her spare time, she helps plan WordCamp St. Louis and WordCamp US, and spends time with her dog, Loki.
Saint Ann, MO | @JenSwish

Military brat, WordPress web designer and developer, and a Belleville East alumni, Nile has traveled around the world, only to settle in the St. Louis metro east. Nile is a mom, who started a hobby blog over 15 years ago. She’s also an award winning blogger and social media influencer at Blondish.net. Nile enjoys presenting at WordCamps and blogger conferences across the United States, because she loves to help others bring their web presence to life.
Centralia, IL | @blondishnet

Joe McGill is a St. Louis native and works as a Senior WordPress Engineer for Human Made. He’s an active WordPress contributor and helped lead the effort to add responsive image support to WordPress in version 4.4.
St. Louis, MO | @joemcgill

Connie Christians works as a Creative Director for Evolve Online: WordPress website developer, social media marketing and video editing for online. Connie has a commitment to activism working with political action groups, marching for science, women’s rights, environmental protection and gun control. Her activism extends to webmaster work for the League of Women Voters and the National Council of Jewish Women. Connie lives on a small family farm in Stanton (near Meramec Caverns), enjoying the balance of living in nature, gardening sustainably and working online.
Stanton, MO | @videoconnie