New subject: Welcoming Vahid Masrour to the WMF education team

11 May 2016

Dear education colleagues,

I'm delighted to introduce the newest member of the WMF education team, Vahid
Masrour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VMasrour_(WMF)>. Vahid joins
as our Community Capacity Manager, and will be working with groups
like the Wikipedia
Education Collaborative
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collaborative>
and
other global education program leaders and affiliates to make sure they
have the support they need to be successful.

Vahid will be working remotely from Quito, Ecuador for his first few months
before moving with his family to San Diego. A little more about Vahid in
his own words:

World citizen, with a strong experience in South America, I have resided in
...
  6 countries so far, and plan to keep on moving. I am
keenly interested in
 transformation of educational processes using technology as a lever. I have
 been part of the Ecuador User Group since its inception (2013), as the
 education program specialist, and am a firm believer that “Knowledge is as
 wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is
 incumbent upon everyone.”

Originally trained as a psychologist, I’ve been learning about community
...
  development through development projects and volunteer
service. The overlap
 of my interests in education, technology and community development now
 finds a peculiarly interesting expression through my work at the WMF, where
 I can now serve by enabling a global community’s efforts towards the
 “growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational
 content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to
 the public free of charge”. 

Please join me in welcoming Vahid to the education team (on-list or on-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VMasrour_(WMF)>)!

Tighe

--
Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org