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Bio

2022 Core representative and co-maintainer of a few components. Copy editor for the Core team (I may have tweaked that error message you saw yesterday!) Release co-coordinator, WordPress 6.5 and 5.5.2.

WordCamp speaker, mostly on design and CSS.

Direct marketer with a design degree in three things:
1. Don’t make it symmetrical.
2. Do make it look intentional.
3. And if you can’t make it good, make it big.

Self-taught developer, if you don’t count CSS-Tricks, Know the Code Pro and Wes Bos.

Dabbler in online fabric and assorted other product design, and 3D.

Tennis, landscape and macro photographer and near-daily tennis player.

Grandmother.

Interests

Type. Tennis. Cats. Comedy. 3D design and 2D pattern design, with a rock ‘n roll soundtrack in my head for ALL of it.

Grandmother.

WordPress Origin Story

(Sooooo boring … And I don’t bore easily. )

Badges

Core Contributor '19 Core Team '20
Documentation Contributor '23 Marketing Contributor '17
WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19 WordCamp Volunteer '25
Test Contributor '23

Current Job

Digital consultant, owner
Present
RacquetPress

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
1contribution
high0
medium1
score1
Last 90 days
2contributions
high0
medium2
score2
Last 12 months
19contributions
high12
medium7
score43

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 19 releases
  • 7.0
  • 6.9
  • 6.8
  • 6.7
  • 6.6
  • 6.5
  • 6.4
  • 6.3
  • 6.2
  • 6.1
  • 6.0
  • 5.9
  • 5.8
  • 5.7
  • 5.6
  • 5.5
  • 5.4
  • 5.3
  • 5.2

Contributions

Type
June 2026
Jun 17 Wed · 15:18
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Announcing the WordPress 7.1 Release Squad, on the site Make WordPress Core:
What an outstanding squad! Congrats and have a great time!
May 2026
May 21 Thu · 20:22
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.1 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Raising my hand for coordination, triage or test lead!
March 2026
Mar 20 Fri · 22:06
Meta high
Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @ellatrix @mukesh27 @SergeyBiryukov @audrasjb @juanmaguitar @marybaum @JeffPaul @Ankit K Gupta @wildworks @adamsilverstein @desrosj…
Mar 12 Thu · 16:04
Meta high
Received props from @chaion07 in Slack:
Huge Props to @ellatrix, @mukesh27, @wildworks, @juanmaguitar, @Ankit K Gupta, @marybaum, @westonruter, @davidbaumwald, @desrosj, @mindctrl,…
Mar 11 Wed · 00:02
Meta high
Wrote a new post, It’s time to test real-time collaboration!, on the site Make WordPress Test:
With WordPress 7.0, real-time collaboration—the centerpiece of Gutenberg Phase 3—lands in Core. This is the…
Mar 05 Thu · 15:00
Meta high
Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @ellatrix, @mukesh27, @wildworks, @juanmaguitar, @Ankit K Gupta, @marybaum ,@chaion07, @davidbaumwald,@desrosj, @mindctrl, @4thhubbard, @JeffPaul,…
Mar 01 Sun · 02:34
Meta high
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Canada 2026
January 2026
Jan 14 Wed · 04:28
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2026 Edition, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I of course mean @francina. Apologies!
Jan 14 Wed · 04:27
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2026 Edition, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Ben, I am honored by your nomination and would love to work together! I think…
Jan 09 Fri · 21:14
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.0 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Release coordination (I love hosting release parties!) or triage would be good fits for me!
No contributions in this category yet.

Completed courses

2 completed
  • A Developers Guide to Block Themes - Part 2*
    Completed July 6, 2023
  • A Developers Guide to Block Themes - Part 1*
    Completed March 30, 2023

*Course is no longer available.

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