Introducing Bianca Welds

Bianca is a WordPress freelancer from Jamaica who has been working with WordPress since 2005. She is the recipient of the 2017 Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for WordCamp US.

Show Notes

WordPress freelance business website | L’attitude Studios

Personal website | biancawelds.com

Twitter | @biancawelds

Episode Transcript

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Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 26.

Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re recording at WordCamp US in Nashville at the Music City Center.

Tara: And I’m Tara Claeys. Today, we’re excited to be talking with Bianca Welds. We’re sitting here in the Music City Center with Bianca and she’s here as the recipient of the 2017 Kim Parsell’s Memorial Scholarship. Bianca is a WordPress freelancer from Jamaica who’s been working with WordPress since 2005. Welcome, Bianca.

Bianca: Thanks.

Liam: Welcome, welcome. Beyond what Tara just shared with us, tell us a little bit about yourself, where you’re from, what you do?

Bianca: As you said, I’m from Jamaica. That is where I live, it’s where I have lived most of my life. I was actually born in Scotland, which is where my parents were working at the time. Though I’ve spent most of my life in Kingston, Jamaica, the capital, I have actually lived in a few other places. I’ve lived in Belgium for a year when I was 18, I lived in Miami for two years while I was studying. And I spent six months in Italy a few years ago, so I do kind of take every opportunity I get to live somewhere else but Jamaica is home and it’s where I always get back to.

Tara: Yeah, it sounds like you’ve lived in some wonderful places.

Bianca: Yeah. I love traveling so I’m always excited to visit somewhere new, revisit places that I’ve been.

Tara: Excellent. Tell us a little bit more about the WordPress community in Jamaica.

Bianca: Such as it is, it is largely nonexistent in any structured way. There are a lot of WordPress users, there are a lot of freelancers that use WordPress, there are website agencies that use WordPress as their CMS. But there really hasn’t been any structured effort around the WordPress community. I have started some conversations, wanted to start some meetups from about two years ago, that’s not really gotten off the ground yet, but I am resuming my efforts when I go back this week, actually. I have identified a couple of people who are interested and so we’re going to at least start with us and then, hopefully,