OG CascadiaR committee

Retrospective of Cascadia R



Jessica Minnier
Jessica Minnier
Pronouns: she, her
Portland, OR, USA
Jessica is a biostatistician and faculty at OHSU-PSU School of Public Health and Knight Cancer Institute in Portland. She helped organize the first and second Cascadia R Conf starting in 2017 and is grateful the Pacific Northwest R community is still thriving. She has been teaching R for quite some time for her day job and also at other R and biostatistics conferences, and is passionate about helping people new to coding to feel empowered to work with data using R.
STed Laderas
Ted Laderas
Pronouns: he, him
Portland, OR, USA
Ted is a founding member of the Cascadia-R conference. He is a bioinformatics trainer and data science mentor. He trains and empowers learners in learning how to utilize cloud platforms effectively and execute and communicate effective data science. He also is a co-organizer of the PDX-R user group and visualizing Tidy Tuesday datasets in his free time.