Hi all, Following up on the announcement about a new structure in the Community Engagement team,[1] I'm happy to say we've now got a new program officer to support WMF's Individual Engagement Grants program. Please see below for more details. This month, Marti Johnson will be taking over for both the IEG and TPS programs.[2] Grantees and committee members will be introduced to Marti soon, as her onboarding to both programs begins :) Meanwhile, I trust you will help make her feel welcome. Warmly, Siko [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076864.html [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mjohnson_(WMF) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Siko Bouterse &lt;sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:08 PM Subject: Announcing Marti Johnson as Program Officer for Individual Grants To: Staff All &lt;wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Hi all, I'm excited to announce that we've got a new Program Officer for Individual Grants. Please join me in congratulating Marti Johnson as she transitions to this role! Marti joined WMF as Project Coordinator in the Grantmaking and Programs (later turned Community Engagement) department in September 2014. She quickly demonstrated that she’s a strategic thinker who brings deep respect for communities, a facility for organizing systems that foster creativity and collaboration, and the warmth and generosity needed to support individuals to do their best work. In her new role, Marti will be responsible for the Individual Engagement Grants and Travel and Participation Support programs. She reports directly to me. I’m delighted to have Marti move into the Community Resources team to put her talents to work, particularly for supporting our Individual Engagement Grantees and taking IEG to the next level over the coming year. Among other things, Marti will be working on creating more robust mentorship systems and a broader network to support grantees, while continuing to offer direct support herself to the IEG grantees, proposers, and committee. We’ve begun a transition period in which Marti is working to hand-off her role in supporting Luis and the Community Engagement team while beginning to assume her new responsibilities in Community Resources. Marti has already taken on responsibility for Travel and Participation Support, this week she will be onboarding our new crop of Inspire grantees in IEG, and over the course of May I’ll be handing all day-to-day operations for IEG to her as well. More information will be coming from Lynette later this month about the backfill for Marti’s former Project Coordinator position. Many thanks to Lynette for bringing Marti to WMF and supporting her move to this new role :) Here’s a bit more about Marti, for those of you who haven’t yet had a chance to get to know her: Inspired by a senior paper on agrarian community in American literature, Marti took her first job after college coordinating Community Supported Agriculture on an urban organic farm. A year of service as an AmeriCorps volunteer led to a decade managing collaboratively driven resource conservation projects on California farmlands. She gained extensive experience with grants management, including proposal and report writing, grantmaking, contract oversight and coordination of budgets ranging from hundreds to millions of dollars. Marti specialized in facilitating community-based processes and played a lead role in coordinating a private-public alliance which was awarded California’s highest honor for environmental and economic leadership. She gained a reputation for building meaningful collaboration--and among other tools, she relied heavily on wikis she built with MediaWiki software to do it. After moving to San Francisco, Marti was very excited to join WMF and offer skills in community coordination, collaborative strategy-building and grants management in the context of Wikimedia projects. In her free time, Marti likes to backpack, write and take long walks in Golden Gate Park. She has recently been working toward a goal to read through the complete works of Shakespeare (about 75% complete!) and welcomes read-aloud collaborators. Congratulations and welcome to Community Resources, Marti! Warm regards, Siko -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!* -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>