Great news! Wish Alex all the best :)
Ali
On Jan 23, 2014 5:55 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent news and artistry! Welcome, Alex.
SJ
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi, everyone.
I'm thrilled to announce that as of last week, WMF's new Project and
Event
Grants (PEG) Program Officer is Alex Wang. She will be supporting the
PEG
program's scaling up, and will enable us to offer our grantees a much
higher level of support in project management and frequent check-ins
during
grant execution.
She brings great expertise in project management, event planning, and
grantmaking in the non-profit sector, including much experience in the
developing world. Before joining Wikimedia, she worked with the
ClimateWorks Foundation and the Energy Foundation, in sustainable energy
projects in India, Europe, and China. (She's fluent in Mandarin.)
When she wasn't setting up non-profits from scratch in India, she could
be
found practicing and teaching yoga, installing solar panels in rural
maternity clinics in Nepal, and taking photos in precarious situations
(mostly while mountaineering and backcountry skiing)[1].
In 2003-2004, she could also be spotted riding a pony around Ulaanbaatar
in
her quest to study the development of the Morin Khuur (upright
two-stringed
violin[2]) along the Silk Road[3].
We are very excited to have her join the WMF Grantmaking team, and look
forward to improving our ability to serve the needs of applicants and
grantees alike.
Asaf
[1] http://www.alexwangphotography.com/adventure/ [4]
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morin_khuur ;
https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%85%D1%83%D1%83%D1%80
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
[4] I personally also recommend her portraits:
http://www.alexwangphotography.com/
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