Kristen Symonds
Kristen Symonds, aka kristarella, works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic. She is a WordPress fanatic with a love for photography, craft, SciFi and Fantasy, board games, and more.
Kristen is married to Dave and has two pet rabbits named Monty and Zoë. She is also a Christian and plays flute and guitar.
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Dee Teal
Dee is an expatriate Kiwi who has been using WordPress as a blogger since 2008, as a web developer since 2009 and transitioned recently to being a project manager for large scale WordPress projects with Human Made.
Dee is a huge fan of the WordPress community, organises WordPress events in Australia, and speaks at them where she gets the opportunity both in her home ground of Australia and New Zealand, around the world.
Dee drives an English classic car, owns a Burmese cat, and drinks black coffee.
Mock Dee for leaving the homeland for the West Island – get your Ticket!
Johanna Bennett
Johanna has a background in journalism and have also set up six WordPress blogs. Her interest in writing – especially children’s literature is shown in my Murder Your Darlings (https://murderyourdarlings.net/ blog.
She has done a lot of business blogging and other related marketing – useful for business bloggers; hence this ‘business blogging’ lightning talk topic was created!
