Volunteers

Amika Antoniades - List Manager
Once an HR manager-turned-marketing associate in the tech world, Amika is now a full-time mom and has happily left the workforce for a much harder job at home. Amika’s been SFWoW’s listmom for several years and is happy to be part of this diverse online community.
Jennifer Baum -Panel Coordinator
Jennifer Baum, President and CEO of Peridot Productions, brings more than ten years of experience managing diverse marketing and print projects for a variety of clients. Jennifer brings deep knowledge of trade shows and print and online marketing projects. With her photographic training, she also brings a deep understanding of the design and production process. Prior to her owning and operating Peridot Productions, Jennifer was a senior account manager responsible for overseeing numerous teams of graphic designers, production artists and writer at Oak Hill Corporation, The Canterbury Group, and Chroma Copy Imaging, and the traffic coordinator at Ernst & Young’s Creative Department. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Anna Billstrom - Board President
Anna started volunteering for SF WoW as a workshop manager, then moved to Top25 organizer (’99), director, and now Board President. She has taught and moderated numerous workshops on technology for the organization. Anna is a CRM Consultant for various clients on the west coast, including Disney, Microsoft, American Express, WellsFargo, and Kodak. She is an avid local history buff, loves to take long walks, drink Pinot Noir (before Sideways!), and contribute to her own database of movie haikus. She’s a writer of novels, screenplays, and can be found writing for a local SF blog.
Maria Black - Events Co-Manager
Mary Choy Rosberg - Board Treasurer
Mary Choy Rosberg has been on SF WoW maillist since its inception. She volunteered as Workshop Coordinator for several months, before being voted onto the Steering Crew by the active volunteers. She served as Point Woman from January 1999 to March 2000. When not raising Dash, she runs client services and does biz dev for Oak Hill, an agency for freelance tech writers, marketing writers, instructional designers, editors, and illustrators.
Arianna Dogil - Alliance Manager
A marketing and tech document writer/editor for the last 10 years, Arianna currently works at a small start-up as the managing editor (although she frequently toys with the idea of returning to life as a freelancer). She recently discovered, joined and got involved with SFWoW. (Her excuse is that she hasn’t lived in the Bay Area very long.)
Teri Gardella Solina - Women At Large
Teri has over 15 years of web and IT experience and is currently Director of Technology at a local high school. She has been a member of SF WoW since 1999 and volunteered in various capacities, including Director in 2001. In between work and raising daughter Renee, Teri enjoys gardening, camping, hiking and photography.
Lauren Hoernlein - Public Relations
Lauren writes, if not witty and engaging prose, then at least highly accurate and effective software documentation. She has also managed to get sucked into the world of blogging and is an amused spectator of “Web 2.0.” She is a self-proclaimed foodie and coffee snob, and will go to extreme measures to find a good croissant. A San Francisco native, Lauren grew up in Spokane, Washington, and received her Bachelor of Science in Technical Communication from the University of Washington in Seattle before returning to the Bay Area in 2001, just as everyone else was leaving.
Rebecca Kidder - Board Vice President
Rebecca is the Director of Client Services at Marker Seven, a web design and development firm. Rebecca started a long and healthy relationship with the web while publishing an independent e-zine in 1994. Most recently, Rebecca was Lead Producer in a network of independent consultants, Connected-dots. Before that, she worked as a Technical Lead for a web development firm, a Product Manager for a software company’s web offering, Director of Interactive for an integrated marketing agency, and a freelance web developer. Rebecca holds a BA in Liberal Studies from JFK University. She enjoys poetry, literature and martial arts in her spare time.
Bethany Polentz - Director
Bethany Polentz currently works as a Project Manager of bank applications in Wells Fargo’s Wholesale Internet Treasury group. Bethany began working in the Internet space in 1999, when she moved to Silicon Valley without ever having set foot in California. She met her first recruiter at a beerfest in Mountain View, and quickly landed a job at Internet search company, AltaVista. Since then, she’s been a firm believer in the power of random networking, regardless of the setting! Other gigs have included a stint as a Producer at a small e-commerce startup and a Project Manager of medical software development, as well as freelance writer and editor. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia and vows to one day start a blog and really keep it up this time! In her free time, she writes fiction, runs, drinks red wine and searches for fun new activities in San Francisco, i.e. she is never home. Her cat is very understanding.
Nancy Purcell - Woman at Large
Nancy has been involved in SFWoW from the beginning, wearing different hats including Director, Co-Organizer of the 2000 Top 25 Awards but mostly random go-fer. She’s an online fundraising consultant, and exhibits worrisome signs of potential Cat Lady Syndrome.
Amy Rogers- Research
Amy is a Webmaster at Large for small business and non-profits. Before that she worked in Marketing at high-tech companies, and a Web whiz since 1986. Amy has been a member of SFWOW mailing list since
1999. When not at the computer, she’s either running errands, gardening, walking, drinking sake, reading sci-fi and non-fiction, all the while spending time with her husband and dog.