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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org