{"id":2131,"date":"2018-10-15T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2018-10-15T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:15:34","slug":"karen-howell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/karen-howell\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Your Flight Crew &#8211; Karen Howell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since those behind\u00a0the scenes of WordCamp mostly go unnoticed, we decided it would be a nice twist to introduce you some of this year&#8217;s crew:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Karen Howell,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Registration and Swag Wrangler:<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you do for a living?\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2183\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/karen-howell\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler-headshot\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler-headshot.png\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"karen howell wcsea swag and regstration wrangler headshot\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;karen howell wcsea WordCamp Seattle 2018 swag and registration wrangler&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler-headshot-300x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler-headshot.png\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2183\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.seattle.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/10\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler-headshot-300x300.png\" alt=\"karen howell wcsea WordCamp Seattle 2018 swag and registration wrangler\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler-headshot-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler-headshot-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler-headshot-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler-headshot.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m a founder and developer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themaycreative.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The May Creative<\/a> where I build custom themes for business owners in collaboration with designers &amp; design agencies. I also consult helping businesses owners strategically engage online. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you use WordPress?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I use it every day to help businesses run their business as well as my own through theme creation and blogging.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How did you end up involved in WordCamp?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I attended last year and had such a great time within the WordPress community I decided to volunteer this year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s your guilty pleasure\/hobby\/outside of work passion? <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For fun I\u2019m a beauty blogger &#8211; a maven, sharing makeup techniques and looks for women. It\u2019s how I got started with WordPress. Plus I adore coding. It&#8217;s my hobby and career \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>How to get in touch with Karen:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/karenhowell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linkedin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/themaycreative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/themaycreative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>When you see Karen at WordCamp Seattle (look for the hat) in Nov, be sure to say hello and thank her for all her hard work and time volunteering to make WordCamp 2018 the best one yet.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Since those behind\u00a0the scenes of WordCamp mostly go unnoticed, we decided it would be a nice twist to introduce you some of this year&#8217;s crew: Karen Howell,\u00a0Registration and Swag Wrangler: What do you do for a living?\u00a0 I\u2019m a founder and developer at The May Creative where I build custom themes for business owners &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/karen-howell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get to Know Your Flight Crew &#8211; Karen Howell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14601777,"featured_media":2182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1246041],"tags":[1246051,14],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-crew","tag-flight-crew","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/karen-howell-wcsea-swag-and-regstration-wrangler.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ygka-yn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14601777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}