Hello everyone,
I am happy to announce that Anna Koval is joining the Wikipedia Education
Program team.
Along with Tighe and Floor, Anna will be our third Global Education Program
Manager and will work with our team to support education initiatives around
the world. Anna's Serbian background will be helpful to our team's efforts
to support education program leaders in Eastern Europe. She will also serve
as our point person for outreach to Asian countries and secondary schools.
She and Sage will work closely on Global Education technical support needs.
For the past 8 months, Anna has worked at the Wikimedia Foundation as a
Community Advocate, supporting several teams, including mine, as well as:
* Siko Bouterse and the Grantmaking team on IEGs and gender gap work
* Yana Welinder and the Legal team on the new Trademark policy
* James Forrester and the Product team on the VisualEditor roll out
and, of course,
* Philippe Beaudette and the Community Advocacy team on a number of
workflows, not the least of which is the wikis' emergency response
system.
Anna's transition from her Community Advocacy position and activities will
be completed soon.
Anna is an award-winning educator, with a master's degree in education and
more than a decade of classroom teaching experience, ranging from middle
school through graduate school. She was a Walt Disney Teacher of the Year
nominee, an American Library Association Emerging Leader, and was even
featured on the cover of *California Teacher
<http://issuu.com/cftpub/docs/calteach_sep-oct-2009?e=7269471/3308134>*
magazine.
When Anna's not at work, she enjoys gardening at her home in Sonoma and
spending time her husband and two dogs. She's also a mighty fine home
distiller.
Please join me in (re-)welcoming Anna Koval!
Rod Dunican
Director, Global Education
Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation