WordCamp Sacramento is a community-organized event put together by local WordPress users like you who volunteer their time and energy to support WordPress in our greater Sacramento region.
Get to know the 2018 organizing team:
Jennifer Bourn
Speaker/Curriculum Wrangler
Jennifer Bourn is founding partner at Bourn Creative, a full service design and development company specializing in WordPress. With twenty years in the industry under her belt, she is an award-winning designer who consults on branding, website strategy, and content strategy.
Jennifer speaks often, delivering workshops and keynote presentations, blogs about food and travel at Inspired Imperfection, co-organizes the Sacramento WordPress Meetup, and writes often for other websites on freelancing, client services, blogging, marketing, websites, and branding. She is also the creator of the client management course Profitable Project Plan.
Brian Bourn
VIP Dinner Wrangler
Brian Bourn is the managing partner at Bourn Creative, a full-service design agency and Genesis recommended developer. As a web developer, he has been working with WordPress since 2009 and has created over 170 custom WordPress sites.
With a passion for business, an eye for design, and a predilection for code, he provides consulting for small to medium-size businesses, works with clients around the globe on website strategy, and brings their vision to life through UX design and development.
Brian is a big believer in giving back and supporting the WordPress project and community and volunteers his time as lead organizer for the monthly Sacramento WordPress Meetup.
Joe Boydston
Organizer
Joe “runs” WordPress.com. Well, not the whole thing. But he works for Automattic, the company who does. When he’s not running super long distances to visit WordCamps, he helps businesses make the most of their WordPress.com sites. He blogs about his running adventures at crazyrunningguy.com and is co-organizer of the Sacramento WordPress Meetup group.
Mario Cano
Organizer
Mario has operated a start-up Design Development and SEO Web Agency in Sacramento, Ca. He has been using WordPress for the last six years and has been part of the WordCamp Sacramento team since its inception.
Jose Castaneda
Volunteer Wrangler
Jose is a member of the Theme Review team and moderator on the WordPress forums. He has been working with WordPress since late 2011 and loves to help as much as he can. He likes playing Flamenco guitar when he can and lives in Roseville with his wife and son.
Bryan Cole
Marketing
Retired from Kintetsu Travel International, Bryan Cole moved back to Sacramento to share his expertise in photography and fine arts photos. His photoblog, Afternoon Coffee is heavily influenced by his ten years spent in Japan to capture his desire for creativity and design.
Jackie Garcia
Organizer
Jackie Garcia is a Senior Graphic and Web Design student at The Art Institute of California, Sacramento. This is her second year volunteering at WordCamp and first year as a part of the organizing committee. Jackie has years of experience in working with the public and is excited to bring her customer service skills to making another successful WordCamp event happen.
Jacob Henderson
A/V Wrangler
Jacob lives in Lodi, CA with his wife and two daughters. He is a motion graphics designer turned web developer. By day, he works as a front-end developer and designer at A Gift Inside. By night he keeps busy, working in WordPress, developing passion projects such as Featured Locals a local community awareness website, and VFX Resources a VFX and Motion Graphics asset and resource hub.
Bill Mead
Lead Organizer
Bill teaches web design and development classes at a number of colleges and universities in the Sacramento area. His biggest reward comes from watching his students develop professional skills, then go out into the world and do great work. Bill has been building custom WordPress websites since 2005 and loves the platform and the community. He helped found the Sacramento WordPress Meetup Group in 2010 and is involved with other local groups including SacInteractive, and the Sacramento Ad Club.
Katie Nash
Lead Designer
Katie Nash is creative director, designer and principal of her full service design studio providing brand development, advertising and promotion, packaging and web and media design. She embraces WordPress to implement creative solutions for small and medium size business clients.
Volunteering with WordCamp Sacramento and the Sacramento Ad Club allows Katie to help promote creative design and development in the area.
Jessica Roots
Website and Media Lead
Jessica Roots is a graduate of The Art Institute of California, Sacramento and will soon be a graduate of Full Sail University with a Master’s Degree in Internet Marketing. Years of experience has allowed her to meet and work with various clients looking to better/create their digital story. She has had the pleasure of working with companies like Dignity Health, Park City Group/ReposiTrak, Sina’s Backroads Café and many more.
Josh Smith
Sponsor Wrangler
Josh is a Software Engineer at Dice.com; a company that uses WordPress to publish some of the best tech content on the web. At Dice, Josh works with content authors, marketers, and application developers to ensure Tech Professionals can access the highest quality content. He’s created dozens of themes and plugins to help promote content for Dice.
Before he was an engineer, Josh served in the US Navy for twelve years as a Navy Diver. He’s removed our country’s ships’ propellers, inspected shipping lane buoys, and entered submarines through the business end of a torpedo tube. He’s learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable, which is a large part of writing software.
Josh lives in Folsom, CA with his wife and two sons. He and his family love being outdoors. They went camping six times in 2017. He likes to be outside as much as he likes to be in front of his computers. He loves cycling for hours at a time and teaching his sons the value of running long distances.