Who We Are
The St. Louis Bloggers’ Guild is an organization of bloggers who create Web content for websites, be them their own or corporate. Bloggers are unrepresented in most markets; bloggers are prevented from joining most traditional writers’ unions, like those governing newspaper journalists, and may be under-represented in others. As blogging gains popularity and an increased audience, social media’s influence and potential is more valuable than ever before. We exist to promote and protect the work and skills of these bloggers.
Board of Directors
Dana Loesch, Marianne Richmond, Kimbery Shlau, Kelli Stuart
Site Editor
Kelli Stuart
Membership Director
Internal Communications
Outreach Coordinator
Kimberly Schlau
Forums Administrator
Raquita Henderson
IT Director
Patrick Dellesandro
Founders
Dana Loesch, Lisa Bertrand, Raquita Henderson , Todd Jordan
About the Board of Directors:
Dana Loesch Dana works as blogger and hosts her own talk radio show on KFTK 97.1 FM Talk. In addition to her personal blog, www.mamalogues.com, Dana has written for corporate parenting communities as well as St. Louis Magazine, The Riverfront Times, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and is a contributing editor at Blogher. She was named the Riverfront Times Best Columnist of 2007 for her popular newspaper column on motherhood and was selected as one of St. Louis’s “30 Under 30″ by the St. Louis Business Journal in 2008. Her website was pitched as a network television sitcom in 2006. She is regularly featured on local television and appeared on the nationally-broadcast Fine Living network. She lives with her husband and their two young sons in St. Louis City.
Lisa Bertrand Lisa lives in West County with her Sudoku-loving husband, Wii-addicted son and ”cranky old lady” dog. These days, she’s a professional blogger who spends her days working in her jammies while trying to convince herself that she doesn’t need a 12-step program for her soda addiction. She began blogging (Midwestern Mommy) in January of 2005, then two years later, created Midwestern Mommy Reviews, where she writes product reviews for Parent Bloggers Network (PBN) and Moms Central. Lisa also manages product review campaigns for PBN.
Kelli Stuart is a graduate of Baylor University where she majored in English Professional Writing and minored in Russian. Her passion for writing and languages has opened up many doors of opportunity that have allowed her to travel the world, meeting interesting people along the way. In addition to technical writing and editorial work, Kelli has also ghostwritten several books and co-authored the book Dare 2B Wise with Dr. Joe White of Kanakuk Kamps. These days, Kelli can be found at home in Ballwin with her three children where she contributes to several different sites and serves as editor of the St. Louis Bloggers Guild. Kelli blogs on her own site, Minivans Are Hot.
Kimberly 
Schlau is a paralegal by trade, writer by choice. Her main blog, Parachuting Without a Net, started out as a lunch-hour diversion, but after several personal tragedies, became a form of therapy. Sometimes poignant, often humourous, and always honest, Kimberly writes about her life with a voice that many can relate to. Currently, Kim and her husband, Craig, live in Collinsville with her daughter, Madelyn, and their two dogs. She maintains a website dedicated to her daughters, Jessica and Kelli Uhl, started a wedding blog, Marriage 3.0, to chronicle her upcoming nuptials, contributes to Girls Guide to the Galaxy as a fashion and beauty columnist, and serves as Outreach Director of the St. Louis Bloggers Guild.
About the Founders
Raquita Henderson Raquita, Resident W.O.B.L is truly a jack of all trades. She firmly believes a clean desk is a sign of cluttered desk drawer. She’d like to avoid desks all together in her future. Currently headlining as a photographer, she is also her mother’s web master, her friends’ life coach, budding graphic designer, wife and mom to two beautiful daughters, big dog Anubis, and one lucky hubby – if you believe him – and lastly a poet, which is how this blog thing got started in the beginning. She takes the most comfort in drowning herself in artistic endeavors and would like to try quilting next. The lunacy she calls life is documented on her blog, WOBL in Training.
Todd Jordan Todd isn’t just a great programmer, but he’s been a burger slinger, a movie usher, dressed mannequins, and run the engine room in a nuclear submarine. He’s watched movies in theaters from coast to coast, and in foreign countries as well. Even several in foreign languages. From climbing the Rock of Gibraltar to plumbing the depths of the Atlantic, he’s traveled all around having fun, learning things and drinking strange brews. There are rumors he glows in the dark, that he’s an alien, and that he used to be in the Intelligence community. One of those might be true. He blogs about his experiences at The Broad Brush. His topics range from social media tools like Seesmic to taking photographs with a DSLR, to dining out for Brazilian food.
