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Sally is new to WordPress and is in the process of building her website Savvy Gurl Digital Marketing, with Alicia St. Rose of the South Central WordPress Adventure Group. She loves being part of the warm, gracious, and welcoming WordPress Community.
She launched the Promotion Department for Warner Bros. Television Canada. After winning the Top National Marketing award for the launch of Batman: The Animated Series and placing third in the TV World Marketing Awards for Babylon 5, she became the first field employee promoted to Burbank, CA, where she oversaw international publicity and eight field offices. A long and successful career followed in broadcast sales.
Sally moved into digital marketing several years ago and is currently studying Accessibility, which has been on her heart for a few years. She feels privileged to help make the web more inclusive and is grateful to all the Accessibility advocates leading the way. She looks forward to adding Accessible services to her regular services.
She wrote the sponsor blogs for the first WordPress Accessibility Day, and her small but mighty team Digital Diversity Divas, won 3rd place in Knowbility’s AIR RALLY2020. Part of her team responsibilities included Team Lead, Content Creator, Project Manager, and QA tester.
Sally presented at “Building With Purpose Conference 2020,” where she discussed strategies business owners could implement at the start of Covid. She was invited back this year for “Overcomers: Victory Amid Overwhelming and Unprecedented Circumstances,” where she introduced Accessibility to a new audience.
Originally from Montréal, Québec, Canada, Sally loves to cook, volunteer, do puzzles, and spoil her dog, Cleo (& Patra RIP), when not being a digital and Accessibility sponge. She is a certified California Disaster Services Worker, a board member on her local CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), a community team leader, handles CERT’s marketing and social media, and deployed to the Ridgecrest earthquake in July 2019. Her weekly joy is leading her Awana Sparkys, age 5-7 years old, at her church. Entrepreneurship runs in her blood, as Sally’s grandfather opened the first movie cinema in Montréal in 1905 and later Cleopatra Chocolates.
Sally loves Tilt N’ Whirl, the Scrambler, and rollercoasters, especially Batman The Ride (which she won her National Award for), but now is content holding family and friends’ belongings while they ride.