Natalie MacLees is a frontend web developer and UI designer. She spends her days on the product team at Geni (geni.com), a Los Angeles-based startup that is crowdsourcing the creation of a single family tree of the world. Together with Noel Saw she heads up the Southern California WordPress User's Group (socalwp.org), organizing WordPress meetups, help sessions, and workshops. In 2010, she worked as a technical reviewer on WordPress 3 Complete by April Hodge Silver. She makes her online home at nataliemac.com.

Her obsession with the Web began when she bought her first computer in 1996 and promptly used it to build her first website. She spends the few moments she manages to be offline each day watching baseball, crafting, reading, baking, bellydancing, collecting Hello Kitty items, and avoiding avocados and olives at all costs. She lives in Los Angeles in eternal hope of developing so many freckles, they'll all touch and make a tan.