Welcome on board Katherine! I'm looking forward to see you at work.
Lodewijk
2014-03-28 15:10 GMT+01:00 Nurunnaby Chowdhury <nh(a)nhasive.com>om>:
Hi Katherine, Congratulations & Welcome!
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On Mar 28, 2014 6:21 PM, "David Parreño Mont" <david.parreno(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Welcome, Katherine! Congratulations!
David Parreño Mont
Communication
Amical Wikimedia
2014-03-28 6:03 GMT+01:00 Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Hey folks,
I'm pleased to announce we've hired a Chief Communications Officer for
the
> Wikimedia Foundation, replacing Jay Walsh who left us in October. Our
new
head of
communications will be Katherine Maher, and she will join us on
14
April, reporting to me.
Katherine comes to the WMF from Washington DC, where she was Advocacy
Director for the global digital rights organization Access. At Access,
she
> was responsible for all media and communications work, including
> communications between the organization and its 350,000 members. She
also
> handled coalition work and advocacy efforts
and urgent global threats
to
digital
rights, participated in the organization's strategic planning,
and
> was deeply involved with the production of RightsCon.
>
> Before Access, Katherine worked on the launch of the Open Development
> Technology Alliance at the World Bank, and was a program manager for
> internet freedom projects at the National Democratic Institute.
Earlier,
she
worked on the UniWiki initiative for the UNICEF Innovation team,
intended to improve MediaWiki's usability for people who were new to
computer use, using early-model technology, or connecting in
low-bandwidth
> environments. Through her career she's been a frequent media
spokesperson
and
writer of op-eds and other media materials.
Katherine has lived and worked in nine countries and visited many more.
She
is a native speaker of English, and has a basic
knowledge of French,
Arabic
and German.
The purpose of the CCO role is to ensure fast, easy information flow
about
> Wikimedia in multiple languages, both internally within the movement
and
outside
of it, and I think Katherine will be a wonderful fit for that
work.
> Her experiences advocating for the rights of ordinary internet users
and
communicating with a large global volunteer community are both rare and
directly relevant. She's got a solid understanding of internet
technologies. She's a crisp, clear communicator, and an experienced
spokesperson.
I want to thank the people who helped with the interviewing process:
Geoff
> Brigham, Jove Oliver, Gayle Karen Young, David Gerard, Erik Moeller,
Lisa
> Gruwell, Frank Schulenburg, and Jimmy Wales.
A special thanks to Geoff,
> who's ably overseen our communications functions for the past several
> years, and to Jay, who's generously filled in when it took us longer
than
we
expected to hire for this role. Geoff and Jay will be helping
Katherine
> get on-boarded, and I know she'll benefit enormously from their
guidance
and
support.
Please join me in welcoming Katherine, who's on CC.
Thanks,
Sue
--
Sue Gardner
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation
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