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Audrey Walker

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Audrey Walker is a front-end developer and digital strategist at Learning A-Z, an educational company providing electronic textbook correlations for K-12 teachers. She has spent over six years building and designing websites, and other interactive projects, and has a passion for all forms of digital communication.

Audrey has won four Adobe Site’s of The Day and was featured in Commarts.com. Most recently Audrey won Chevrolet’s Drive Across America Roadtrip Challenge, as a member of Team Detroit.

Audrey is a Michigan State University Alum with a degree in Telecommunications/Digital Media Arts and Technology and a cognate in Fine Arts. She also studied two years in Computer Science. She’s a big time supporter of MSU Football and Basketball, and travels to the Final Four each year MSU is present. When’s she’s not cheering on her teams, she’s most likely exploring a new region of the world, drinking craft beer, or attending a social media event preserving the “techsocialite” status.

Nikki Stephan

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Nikki Stephan is a public relations professional and social media strategist at Identity Marketing & Public Relations. She focuses on integrating social media strategy with traditional communications efforts to help companies build brand awareness, create new customer relationships and strengthen existing ones, monitor relevant online dialogue and engage in direct conversation with online audiences.

Nikki is a member of PRSA Detroit, is actively involved with Social Media Club Detroit, leads a weekly Tweetea discussion group in metro Detroit, serves as the PR and marketing director of the FutureMidwest conference, is a contributing writer for Metromix Detroit and serves as the Help a PR Pro Out (HAPPO) Michigan champion. She’s a frequent contributor to Identity’s blog, id tags. Nikki also maintains a personal blog, Essential Elements, where she shares stories related to creativity, happiness and success.

A proud Central Michigan University alum, Nikki graduated with a double major in integrative public relations and Spanish. She lived and studied in Valdivia, Chile for a year and loves the Spanish language. When you can catch Nikki offline, you’ll often find her playing tennis or belting out tunes at one of the frequent metro Detroit karaoke events.

Trisha Verma

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Trisha Verma is a digital marketing professional with Fluency Media in Ann Arbor. She focuses on building and executing social media strategies for a variety of clients including Pure Michigan, Michigan’s official state travel and tourism agency.

In addition to her role at Fluency Media, Trisha has taught college courses in New Media Marketing, and serves as an advisor for a student chapter of the American Marketing Association. She also lends her expertise to several military support group websites – a cause that is close to her heart.

Trisha is also the co-founder of Drink Michigan, a new initiative dedicated to promoting the fantastic beers, wines, and spirits made right here in Michigan. Offline, you can usually find her at wine festivals around the state, volunteering with local soldier support organizations, or out cheering on her Detroit sports teams.

Jenni Murray

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Jenni Murray is a Graphic / Web Designer at Creative Breakthroughs, Inc. She enjoys creating designs that clearly define what the company is communicating to its clients, in print and web, and maintaining marketing vendor relationships.

Jenni is a member of NAPP, Photowalks Detroit, Social Media Club Detroit, and assists with local conferences, including FutureMidwest.

After growing up in Minnesota and spending two years at the University of Minnesota, Jenni moved to Arizona to pursue her degree in Web Design at The Art Institute of Phoenix. IRL, you can find her being a shutterbug at photowalks, viewing the new blockbuster on the silver screen, or documenting Social Media Club Detroit events in photos.

Sarah Worsham

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Sarah Worsham is CEO & Web Strategist at Sazbean Consulting. She helps companies grow online by creating digital strategies based on customized analysis and achievement of business goals.

Sarah was a geek long before being one was cool. She is comfortable with technology and innately curious about how it works and how it can be used. Sarah shares her love of technology by helping others to understand how to use it, through her blog at Sazbean.com and by helping with Social Media Club Detroit, IgniteDetroit, FutureMidwest, and TEDxDetroit.

Ever since the Web rose over the horizon, Sarah has been intrigued by how it can be used to help people connect and communicate. Starting with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Michigan, programming for large eCommerce sites (such as Eddie Bauer and 1-800-Flowers), then managing operations and strategy for a B2B media company, to an MBA in marketing and strategy from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Sarah has built a repertoire for understanding the inner workings and intricacies of the Internet.