Welcome, Emily!
Jonathan
> On Aug 20, 2021, at 10:49 PM, Mardetanha <mardetanha.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We are glad to have you, Emily, Welcome
>
>
> Mardetanha
>
>
>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 5:31 AM Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In February 2021, I reached out to you [0] to gather your input for a
>> new position that we were creating in the Research team [1] at the
>> Wikimedia Foundation, a research community focus role. In March 2021,
>> I shared the job opening with you [2]. Today I'm introducing Emily
>> Lescak who joined our team in June 2021 as a Senior Research Community
>> Officer.
>>
>> Emily earned a PhD in Fisheries from the University of Alaska
>> Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences [3] and has
>> extensive experience in research, data science, education and
>> community engagement. She was a National Science Foundation-funded
>> postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alaska Anchorage [4], a
>> fisheries geneticist at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game [5],
>> and the program specialist for the Genetics Society of America’s Peer
>> Review Training Program [6]. Most recently, she developed The Event
>> Fund [7] at Code for Science & Society [8], which provides financial
>> and programmatic support to organizers of international open data
>> science events.
>>
>> In the Research team Emily will focus on initiatives that help expand,
>> diversify and support the community of Wikimedia researchers globally.
>> My ask to Emily has been to focus her efforts between July 2021 and
>> June 22 (Fiscal Year 22) primarily on developing a strategy for our
>> team with regards to our responsibility towards and opportunity in
>> interacting with (the Wikimedia) researchers. Emily will be building
>> on some of our early thoughts as a team in this space developed in
>> 2019 [9] and will work closely with many of you to achieve this goal.
>> To this end, she has started a listening tour to learn more from the
>> perspectives of some of the existing community members. If you'd like
>> to talk with Emily, you should feel welcome to email her directly or
>> express interest in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287615 .
>>
>> Please welcome Emily to the research community! :)
>>
>> Best,
>> Leila
>>
>>
>> [0]
>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia…
>>
>> [1]
https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
>>
>> [2]
>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia…
>>
>> [3]
https://www.uaf.edu/cfos/
>>
>> [4]
>>
https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departmen…
>>
>> [5]
>>
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=fishinggeneconservationlab.main
>>
>> [6]
>>
https://genetics-gsa.org/career-development/genetics-peer-review-training-p…
>>
>> [7]
https://eventfund.codeforscience.org/
>>
>> [8]
https://codeforscience.org/
>>
>> [9]
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foundations_-_Wikimedia_Research_2030.…
>>
>>
>> --
>> Leila Zia
>> Head of Research
>> Wikimedia Foundation
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