Jill’s work has done a lot to further the diversity and inclusion effort in WordPress.
Andrea Middleton, WordPress Community OrganizerJill's work has done a lot to further the diversity and inclusion effort in WordPress. I would heartily recommend her. The initiative she helped develop has already had a powerful impact on WordPress communities.
Jill Binder
Founder and Chief Consultant / Trainer
Jill Binder is the Founder and Chief Consultant/Trainer of Diverse Speakers in Tech. She leads the Diverse Speaker Training group in the WordPress.org Community Team (with a 50% sponsorship from Automattic) which encourages folks from underrepresented groups to speak at WordPress events. She helped organize the first BuddyCamp and for three years co-organized WordCamp Vancouver. She was voted runner-up for the 2020 BraveIT Award, featured as a Person of WordPress on WordPress.org in 2019, named one of the top 100 Influencers of WordPress in 2014 by Torque Magazine, and listed one of the top 10 Women of WordPress by CloudWays.
Andrea Middleton
Community Organizer, Automattic
Dietrich Squinkifer
Artist, Independent
Gilad Babchuk
Executive Director, Co-founder, Groundswell
Elena Yugai
Investment Manager, Helder Ventures
Jill’s work has done a lot to further the diversity and inclusion effort in WordPress.
Andrea Middleton, WordPress Community OrganizerJill's work has done a lot to further the diversity and inclusion effort in WordPress. I would heartily recommend her. The initiative she helped develop has already had a powerful impact on WordPress communities.
Jill’s work helps the WordPress contributor base become more diverse.
Matt Mullenweg, Co-founder, WordPress; CEO, AutomatticAutomattic is sponsoring Jill Binder’s work on the WordPress Diverse Speakers Training Group. I would love to see the WordPress contributor base become more diverse, and training people from marginalized communities to speak at WordCamps is a great way to help that along. Read Matt's blog post
Jill Binder’s expertise has driven major speaker diversity improvements
Dries Buytaert, Founder and Project Lead of Drupal + CTO, Founder, Chairman at Acquia, IncHelping someone see that their expertise is valuable is the kind of support we need to drive meaningful change. Jill Binder's expertise has driven major speaker diversity improvements. Blog post
From underestimating my experience to becoming more comfortable and confident.
Kirsten, Web Developer, VancouverIt had never occurred to me before that I had anything worthwhile to offer the WordPress community. Through the workshop, I saw that I had been underestimating my experience and perspective, and I became comfortable and confident about speaking on a topic I felt would be of interest to others.
An unprecedented 60% growth of women speakers thanks to Jill.
Nichole Betterley, 2017 WordCamp Seattle Speaker WranglerThe Diversity Speaker training workshops we ran at local meetups using Jill’s material were highly successful and helped us achieve an unprecedented 60% of women speakers that year. I highly recommend it to anyone who is conscientious of encouraging more women and other diverse groups to speak at technical events.
Jill helped us find the strength we needed to overcome our fear of public speaking.
Simona Simionato, WordCamp Milan Italy organizer 2018At WordCamp Milan 2017, we had only 4 women out of 19 speakers. After we ran the workshop as well did some personal outreach, in 2018 45% of applications were made by women and there were 11 women out of 21 speakers! One of them was also an LGBT community member. The workshop helped people find the strength needed to overcome the fear of speaking in public, and helped folks find topics – solving the “I do not know what to say” issue.
Jill’s diversity work paved the way for the highly effective public speaking workshop at Automattic.
Kathryn Presner, Theme Whisperer/Happiness Engineer at Automattic, MontrealJill Binder’s diversity work paved the way for the public speaking workshop I developed with my colleagues at Automattic. I’m really excited to see Jill expanding her diversity work and would highly recommend it to anyone looking to broaden their speaker rosters or other professional pathways.
I highly recommend Jill to anyone who is trying to increase diversity at their conference.
Morgan Kay, Founder of WordPress Study Group for Women, SeattleI can attest that Jill’s workshops are very effective at getting a much more diverse speaker pool. I highly recommend Jill and her work to anyone who is trying to increase diversity at their conference or event.