Welcome, Anna! What a great addition to a wonderful team! Wishing all of you good luck and looking forward to continue working with you. :-)
Cheers from Tel-Aviv, Shani. On 2 Apr 2014 02:26, "Rodney Dunican" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > >
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