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Macworld Planning Committee
New York 2003
These user group leaders have volunteered their time to help produce the events that visitors to the Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo and user Group Leadership Conference will enjoy.
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Pat Fauquet
Washington Apple Pi
Pat Fauquet is serving in her second term as President of the Washington Apple Pi Macintosh User Group in the Washington DC metro area. She also serves as their Tutorial Coordinator. When not at the Pi, she does Macintosh consulting and training for small companies, individuals and schools. She specializes in working with senior citizens and helping people move to OS X in addition to her work in digital photography and video. Her license plate reads Mac Mom 5. The five represents her five children, and these days, the number of grandchildren she loves to talk about, not the number of older Macs in the back of her car on the way to the Pi Reclamation Project.
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Sandy Foderick
VMUG
Sandy is a founding officer and current president of AOL's original user group, board member at the User Group Network and former Chancellor of AOL's User Group Learning Center. She has met and worked with user groups across the United States and is president of Virtual Mac and speaker chair for Mini'App'Les' main meetings. When not busy with user groups, Sandy is an adjunct Professor of Philosophy and a mom of four.
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Sarah Friedlander
Rochester Institute of Technology Macintosh User Group (MacRIT)
Sarah is a freshman at Rochester Institute of Technology majoring in New Media Publishing. Previous involvement in User Groups prior to college includes membership in the Long Island PDA/Handheld Users Group, the Long Island Mac Users Group and the New York City Final Cut Pro Users Group. This year she has served her first term as MacRIT's Vice President and will venture into her second term next school year. When not sitting at her computer, Sarah enjoys photography, watching sunsets and eating sushi.
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Trish Huffman
World Without Borders
Trish left her career in the medical field to stay at home with her ever-expanding family. As MUG Producer at World Without Borders, she works to bring MUG events to the Apple Community Connection. She is a member of Triangle Macintosh User Group (TMUG) in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Chuck Joiner
Hershey Apple Core
Chuck is active advocate of the Macintosh User Group community. He has served as the Chairman of the Apple User Group Advisory Board since its creation in January, 2000, and is the president of his local group, the Hershey Apple Core of Hershey PA. Chuck is the Editor-In-Chief of The MUG Center, the resource site for Macintosh User Groups, and also produces and hosts "The User Group Report," an Internet radio show that focuses on Macintosh User Group personalities, news and information. Outside his user group activities, Chuck is Vice President of Operations for the Insurance Alliance of Central PA.
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Lynn Poos
Silicon Mountain Macintosh User Group
Currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the largest active MUG in the State of Colorado, Lynn has been involved with the Mac since the late 1980's. Lynn has also been involved with Apple Computer on several promotional ventures and consulting. He holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor's Degree in Police Science and Administration. Retiring in 1993 after thirty-four years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Lynn moved to Colorado and was appointed by the City Council to serve on the Colorado Springs Liquor and Beer Licensing Board, where he has served since. In 1998, he was appointed by the Governor to chair the Colorado Juvenile Parole Board, a position he currently holds.
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Carmela Robertson
Carmela Zamora (CZ) Robertson has been working with Apple user groups since 1989. She worked in Apple's User Group Department for four years and continued to work with user groups when Apple spun out the department as an outside entity, User Group Connection. In 1997 she became an independent meeting professional working with various corporations and non-profit groups within Silicon Valley, which still gave her the opportunity to work with user groups. She currently launched a new company with a couple of ex-Apple cohorts producing instructional children's videos. The company is called All By Myself, Inc. They introduced their first video "Getting Dressed" in May 2002, editing it all by themselves using Apple technology (iMovie and a Titanium G4).
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David Roemer
Apple Student Core @ Emory, Emory University
David works with Apple in its Buzz Marketing group and focuses on meeting the needs of the youth market and campus group community. He's a member of the Apple User Group Advisory Board and is currently studying at St. Andrews University in the United Kingdom. David founded the Apple Student Core @ Emory University in Atlanta, GA, a group that has pioneered several campus events such as iMovieFest that get students excited about doing more with technology.
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Lesa Snider
Cowtown Macintosh User Group
Over the years, Lesa has served as newsletter editor, web master, program coordinator, and currently President of the Cowtown Mac User Group in Ft. Worth. She created and maintains the group’s community web site, which received a national award at Macworld in January of 2000. She is currently developing a club HTML newsletter. Professionally, Lesa holds a degree in web development and operates a creative new media firm named Flying Fingers along with a Mac consulting/training firm named Mac-Wiz. Lesa currently serves as a consultant for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, travels the country with the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour, also occasionally writes for MacDesign magazine When not seated at a Mac, she enjoys reading, anything aviation/NASA/Star Trek related, tactical shooting, knife collecting, and seeing the world.
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Elsa Travisano
MUG ONE
Elsa has been a guiding force for MUG ONE (Macintosh User Group of Oneonta, New York) for 16 years. She is currently serving her third term as President, and edits MUG ONE's award-winning newsletter Newsbreak. She is a member of Apple's User Group Advisory Board and also edits the Apple User Group Bulletin. Elsa comes from a Mac family. Her father, Philip Thompson, was founding president of Princeton’s PMUG, and her husband Tom is an English professor, former MUG ONE president and writer with three published books written on a Mac. Her son is studying visual arts on the Mac, and her daughter is a budding software reviewer who had to stand on a piano bench to see the audience when she first began giving MUG ONE presentations. A “Mac of all trades," Elsa works as a Macintosh consultant and instructor who has taught classes for children and adults, teacher workshops, and a college course in the Mac.
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Warren Williams
AppleWorks User Group
Warren is the President of the AppleWorks Users Group, the largest user group in the world, and is a member of Apple's User Group Advisory Board. Professionally, Warren is a Professor Emeritus of Educational Technology at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Williams has written more than 500 articles published in psychological journals and technology magazines and newsletters.
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