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 2019 organizing team:
Jose Castaneda
Lead Organizer
Jose is a creative, humoristic, member of the Theme Review team and a moderator on the WordPress support forums. He began contributing to WordPress in late 2011 and loves to help as much as he can by documenting, sharing his knowledge on the support forums, writing about WordPress on his personal blog, and sometimes creating a video or two.
He is self-taught in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and loves to learn new things. He studied Web Design at Westwood College for a short time. He loves to create new things whether they be drawings, code, or music. On his down time he plays Flamenco guitar or will race his son in Mario Kart.
Brian Bourn
VIP Dinner / Food Wrangler
From restoring classic cars, to remodeling homes, to imagining creative solutions for the web, Brian is a technical problem solver at heart with an eye for design. He spent the first 15 years of his career in the fire service, rising to the rank of Captain before discovering WordPress, reinventing himself as a developer, and changing careers to manage a boutique agency with his wife.
As agency owner and managing partner, Brian spent eight years developing new business opportunities and leading the company’s WordPress development and engineering projects. With experience as a developer, strategist, and agency owner, Brian joined 10up as Associate Director, Business Development to put his diverse background and technical expertise to work cultivating relationships with new clients and partners and facilitating new client strategy.
Jennifer Bourn
Speaker/Curriculum Wrangler
With 20 years experience as a graphic designer, 14 years experience as a web designer, 13 years as a creative agency owner, and 10 years as a blogger, Jennifer Bourn has worked with a wide variety of small-medium sized service-based businesses to build brands, establish profitable online platforms, and claim authority positioning in their niche. She is also a sought-after speaker and writer, earning rave reviews for her workshops, trainings, and valuable articles.
Through her personal brand site, jenniferbourn.com, Jennifer focuses on providing the information, tools, and resources freelance designers and developers need to build thriving, successful businesses that align with the lifestyle they desire. Through her agency, Bourn Creative, she offers a suite of services designed to maximize results and increase profits that include brand strategy, content strategy, and website strategy, as well as personalized design and copywriting implementation.
Christian Morales
Volunteer Wrangler
Christian is a Front End Developer from York, Pennsylvania. He is an Art Institute alumni with a bachelors degree in graphic and web design with a web concentration. Christian has been volunteering his time to the WordCamp event as well as help put on the Addys for the last three years. He is excited to be this year’s Volunteer Wrangler and put his volunteering experience to good use.
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.