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This years’ seminar leaders, in alphabetical order:

90° Johnson and Dual Cannonz are collaborating on NSO presentations. 90° Johnson is in his second season with the Queen City Roller girls as an NSO and in his first as a skating ref. He is acting in the role of Head NSO for the league. He has worked nearly every NSO position and compiles the stats for QCRG bouts. Dual Cannonz has been involved in Derby since 2007. Cannonz worked her magic as a statistician for Silicon Valley in 2008 before moving to Santa Cruz in 2009, where she has been head of stats since. She has taught at Blood and Thunder training camps and for leagues throughout California. Cannonz is the head of stats for RollerCon 2010.

Axles of Evil & Kasey Bomber: Axles is a trainer with the L.A. Derby Dolls and a former skater with the Tough Cookies. She also skated and coached for TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls. Kasey also trains with LADD and is a former Trust Fund Terror and member of the Sirens. Together the two wrote the book “Down and Derby: The Insider’s Guide to Roller Derby” (Soft Skull Press). They also served as the trainers, consultants and choreographers on the Drew Barrymore film “Whip It!”

Bad Lady is the President and Founder of the Fairbanks Rollergirls, and has been for almost three years. The Fairbanks Rollergirls have just completed their first season in the remote town of Fairbanks, Alaska, and have been successful in bout promotion, raising funds, and raising the awareness of Roller Derby in their home town.

Cee Cee Sickness and Peaches take care of media, promotions and sponsorship for E-Ville Roller Derby out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They have helped the league grow from a handful of girls to four solid houseteams and a kick ass travel team.

Chaos Fury skates for the Bellingham Roller Betties and has had the honor and heartache of being a team captain for both home teams and travel teams since 2007. When not skating with the Betties, Chaos can be found suiting up for Team Vagine Regime.

D. Enforcer is the President and one of the founders of Sonoma County Roller Derby, and is also a Business Major. Pretty sure she also skated in nearly every Challenge at RC09, as well.

Judith R. Peterson, MD - known as Dr. J in the derby world - is a board certified physician who has extensive experience in the evaluation and treatment of roller derby injuries. She has been team physician for the Sioux Falls Roller Dollz since there was a Sioux Falls Roller Dollz. She has spoken numerous times at RollerCon and has lectured nationally and internationally on injury rehabilitation.

Hannah Grenade is currently Ref Coordinator for Angel City Derby Girls. She has 5 years of derby experience both as a skater and referee. She started the LA Derby Dolls Enforcers crew as well as assisting in building crews for 5 other leagues in California. With WFTDA tournament experience and Level 2 WFTDA certification, Hannah acts as a mentor to many Head Refs across the country.

Mildred Fierce has been the Point of PR and Marketing for the Santa Cruz Derby Girls for two successful sold-out seasons, and is the mastermind behind the “Skate Key to the City.” Before derby she promoted bands on the indie touring circuit and has always been involved in one DIY endeavor or another, learning early on the importance of public relations and face-to-face marketing combat. She worked in the entertainment industry for hundreds of years in Los Angeles and Chicago, specializing in publishing, copyright and licensing. In real life she is a writer, musician and snake charmer (aka “bullshitter extrordinaire”).

Punk’N Pi is the head coach of the Queen City Roller Girls travel team and has coached a home team for four years since a knee injury ended her skating aspirations. She is also a lacrosse and field hockey coach at the middle school where she teaches. She has learned to be flexible and adaptive dealing with 14 year olds, and this skill is widely used in her roller derby coaching.

Razorslut and Isabelle Ringer have been skating, captaining and bench managing roller derby for years. Razor skates with the LA Derby Dolls, but you may have seen her most recently on Gene Simmons Family Jewels, or Oprah. She is a member of the training team for LADD. She has managed 3 championship games to wins. Isabelle Ringer brought her San Diego Derby Dolls dark horse team all the way to the finals in 2009 and everyone’s been begging her to captain again ever since!

Jerry Selzer’s dad invented roller derby. Jerry continued his father’s legacy promoting derby for over 15 years. He also produced the award-winning documentary “Derby” and founded the Sonoma Valley Film Festival, now in its 13th year. He is loved by his grandchildren, his dog Larry, and roller derby skaters the world over. He believes the possibilities for the new Roller Derby are limitless and wants to help derby athletes realize his father’s dream of taking derby to the Olympics.

Secret is a founding member of the Santa Cruz Derby Girls, manages their non-skating program, the Damaged Deck Hands, and has been their official Bout Coordinator for the 3rd year in a row. Her excellent organizational skills, effective leadership, self motivation, and logistical acumen has contributed producing great events that not only are successful but will not soon be forgotten by the 1200+ fans that attend sold-out games hosted by the by Santa Cruz Derby Girls.

Seth Daddy is a California-based graphic designer and Video Game User Interface designer. He’s worked as a professional artist for 19 years, and with RollerCon for something like 4 years at last count. He does a comic strip in Five on Five Magazine, and accepts all offers of cocktails.

The ILL Reverend Mic has announced for the San Diego Derby Dolls and all over California for two years, but he stopped counting at 60 bouts. This is his second year of leading Announcing seminars at RollerCon, and he taught the announcer/ref class at the Los Angeles Derby Dolls’ March RADness derby camp this year. He trains new announcers on a regular basis.

Genevieve Berrick is better known as The Notorious E.V.E. Her name is about her laughing relationship with static identity categories, as she intellectualises everything she does, including Roller Derby. She skates with the Victorian Roller Derby League in Melbourne, Australia, and has recently presented at a number of academic locations on conjunctions of embodiment and derby.

TrAC/DC has been a yoga teacher for three years and a derby girl for nine months. Her mission in life is to teach derby girls how to keep themselves in prime playing condition. And to take over the world.

Val Capone just celebrated her 6 year anniversary as a founding member of the Windy City Rollers. She started announcing early when a minor injury kept her off the track, resulting in the best job she never knew she’d have. Over the past few years, Val has announced for so many leagues that Ivanna had to cut an entire page out of her bio. She was also the first female announcer to be televised calling Flat Track Derby for MavTV in 2007 and Co-MC’d the world premiere of Whip It! at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2009. Val Chaired the founding Board of Directors of the Association of Flat Track Derby Announcers and was the recipient of DNN’s Viewers Choice 2009 Announcer of the Year. AND she skates for the Windy City Rollers and any scrimmage team she talk her way onto.

Wundamike has 20 years experience announcing and 10 seasons in Roller Derby. Starting the first season with modern derby’s first league, Texas Lonestar Rollergirls, Wundamike has been calling the sport of modern Roller Derby longer than anyone else in the World! He’s also a treasured member of our EMT staff and looks smashing in a red dinner jacket.

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