Faculty Program

The Faculty Program is a team of dedicated volunteers who work to achieve the goals of the Training Team and Learn WordPress. You can read the initial proposal for this program here.

Faculty members oversee five broad areas of responsibility in the Faculty Program. For more information on these roles, see the Faculty Role Guide.

Listed below are the current faculty members working on the Training Team. This table will be kept up to date at all times.

Name	Role(s)	Non-English languages spoken	Area(s) of Expertise
Courtney Robertson	All
Hauwa Abashiya	All	Hausa
Pooja Derashri	All	Hindi
Destiny Kanno	All	Japanese, Chinese
Courtney Patubo Kranzke	All		Events (WordCamps and Meetups), Community, Admin, Editing
Benjamin Evans	All	Japanese	Localization
Sarah Snow	Content Creator
Wessel Theron	Content Creator
Nick Diego	Content Creator
Laura Adamonis	Content Creator
Jonathan Bossenger	Content Creator Subject Matter Expert	Afrikaans	Content creation, reviewing technical content, development, custom blocks, custom themes and plugins, security, code quality, debugging, devops, command line
Vagelis Papaioannou	Content Creator	Greek	Greek content creation/translation, editing technical content, development GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/, custom blocks, custom themes, and plugins
Robin	Content Creator	Bangla	Gutenberg, accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility), PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php., GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/., classic themes, pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party development
Micah Wood	Subject Matter Expert		Anything WordPress Development
Paul Barthmaier	Subject Matter Expert		Site editing, blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. themes, beginner level lessons
Anne McCarthy	Subject Matter Expert		Gutenberg, full site editing, some aspects of block themes, and upcoming release items
Chetan Prajapati	Subject Matter Expert	Hindi
Hardeep Asrani	Subject Matter Expert		Gutenberg & Themes
Chris Kindred	Subject Matter Expert		PHP, Enterprise Development, Gutenberg, Plugins, Coding Standards, Git, SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/., Deployments, CI
Mainul Kabir Aion	Editor	Bengali	Copyediting, SEO, Audit, Testing
Ascencia Fike Komala	Editor	Indonesian	Writing and editing, localization, SEO
Oneal Rosero	Administrator	Tagalog	SME: #WPDiversity, running workshops and training (online and face-to-face). Public Speaking and training, help refining talk and slide presentations.
Meagan Hanes	Administrator	French, Japanese	Project management, mediation, coaching, accessibility, motivation and encouragement
Alex Stine	Administrator		Process driven
Amit Patel	Content Creator / Editor	Hindi	Public speaking, Coaching, Mentoring, Hosting Videos & Workshops, Technical SEO, Social Media Awareness, WooCommerce, Web Optimisation & CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Web Vitals, WordPress VIP, Multisites, Documentation, Project Management, Agile methodologies.
Jamie Madden	Editor / Subject Matter Expert	Vietnamese, Mandarin	Devops, server, command line, plugins, automation, WooCommerce, nocode
Afshana Diya	Editor / Subject Matter Expert	Bengali	Marketing, Business Strategy, SEO, Content, Community, Social Media, Mentoring, WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more.

Here is the fully detailed Faculty Program Member list.

Last updated: May 24, 2023