{"id":483,"date":"2015-05-02T21:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T02:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.kansascity.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=483"},"modified":"2015-05-30T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T20:17:42","slug":"melissa-roberts","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/melissa-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecjc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ECJC<\/a> staffer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcstartupvillage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KCSV<\/a> feeder, recovering political junkie, entrepreneur, writer, Royals fan<\/p>\n<p>From political campaigns to non-profit management, I&#8217;ve worked at the nexus of marketing, persuasion and community organizing. Today, I work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecjc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise Center of Johnson County<\/a>, where I help connect entrepreneurs to the resources they need to grow and scale. I also own and operate my own public affairs and social media consulting firm (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freestatestrategy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free State Strategy Group, LLC<\/a>), serving a handful of tech and nonprofit clients.<\/p>\n<p>In my free time, you can usually find me running marathons, debating the future of the KCSV in a board meeting, bemoaning the triumph of sarcasm over wit, binge-watching The West Wing or banging my head against a wall in frustration at Kauffman Stadium.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/msmeliss2024\" target=\"_blank\">@msmeliss2024<\/a> | Kansas City<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freestatestrategy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.freestatestrategy.com<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecjc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.ecjc.com<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcstartupvillage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.kcstartupvillage.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECJC staffer, KCSV feeder, recovering political junkie, entrepreneur, writer, Royals fan From political campaigns to non-profit management, I&#8217;ve worked at the nexus of marketing, persuasion and community organizing. Today, I work at the Enterprise Center of Johnson County, where I help connect entrepreneurs to the resources they need to grow and scale. I also own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/melissa-roberts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melissa Roberts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7694169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"mroberts09","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-483","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UiQo-7N","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8448790002cce63fc20d53819fdb3b8e36d4ba8b1eb941b4bd7c97fa5ec3e048?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8448790002cce63fc20d53819fdb3b8e36d4ba8b1eb941b4bd7c97fa5ec3e048?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8448790002cce63fc20d53819fdb3b8e36d4ba8b1eb941b4bd7c97fa5ec3e048?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8448790002cce63fc20d53819fdb3b8e36d4ba8b1eb941b4bd7c97fa5ec3e048?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8448790002cce63fc20d53819fdb3b8e36d4ba8b1eb941b4bd7c97fa5ec3e048?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8448790002cce63fc20d53819fdb3b8e36d4ba8b1eb941b4bd7c97fa5ec3e048?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/483\/revisions\/1271"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/484?_embed=1&context=view"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/wordcamp"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}