Dear African Wikimedian colleagues,
I present to you Isla Haddow-Flood, known as User:Islahaddow on the Wikimedia projects. Isla has been involved in the Wikimedia movement for close to a decade with experience in project management, community management, and volunteers retention. I’ve found her to be generally helpful, low-key, and dedicated to the mission and vision of the Wikimedia movement in Africa and beyond.
Isla is someone whose works continue to challenge and inspire me.
Isla is a founding member of Wiki Loves Africa, a project known to have activated many Wikimedia communities in Africa, and has co-lead the project since 2014. She is a co-founder of the Wiki Loves Women, Kumusha Takes Wiki, and WikiChallenge African Schools WikiFundi to mention a few.
She was previously a member of the Grant Advisory Committee for the Wikimedia Foundation and was involved in the planning of the first Wiki Indaba in Cape Town in 2014. She was also involved in planning for the Wikimania in 2018 and she was recognized for her work by the Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales.
She is not new to the movement strategy as she previously served on the advocacy working group of the movement strategy.
I have no iota of doubt in Isla's competency, temperament, judgment, and effective representation of the African Wikimedia community at the movement strategy team.
On this note, I nominate Isla Haddow-Flood to represent us at the Strategy Design Group. Thank you.
Isaac Olatunde