Pessoal
A Anasuya poderá trazer uma importante e fundamental transformação no
momvimento Wikimedia mundial.
Tive a oportunidade de conversar com ela recentemente e fiquei extremamente
impressionado e motivado.
Para mim, um resumo de nossa conversa seria aldo como; se em 2001 a
Wikipedia inovou no modo de construir conhecimento, agora temos os recursos
e a experiência para inovar não somente no modo, como também no produto
construído pela soma do conhecimento humano, integrando vozes até então
marginalizadas.
Enfim, algo para celebrarmos e apoiarmos muito!
abração,
Thomas
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Carine Roos carine.r...@gmail.com wrote:
Achei bem interessante o histórico de atuação dela no feminismo.
Em 02/07/2012 07:13, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com escreveu:
Oi gente, no caso, diretora ;-)
Tive oportunidade de encontrá-la duas vezes (uma em San Francisco e outra
no Rio, quando veio para a Rio +20). Gostei muito dela. Aparentemente,
apesar das doferenças de culturas, falamos a mesma língua.
Abs!
Oona
Em 01/07/2012 11:01, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com escreveu:
Novo Diretor na WMF
-- Forwarded message --
From: Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org
Date: 30 June 2012 12:35
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Introducing Anasuya
Sengupta, Director Global Learning and Grantmaking at the Wikimedia
Foundation
To: Announce Mailing List wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi -
I want to introduce Anasuya Sengupta as the new Director, Global Learning
and Grantmaking at the Wikimedia Foundation. She will be starting on
Monday, July 2. In this role, Anasuya will lead our work in support of
the
Funds Dissemination Committee, work with Asaf Bartov on grant-making and
with Jessie Wild in helping us to plan, monitor, evaluate and learn from
our programmatic work in a new team area, Global Learning and Evaluation
that Jessie will be leading (more soon on this). She will also serve as
a
close thought-partner for me and the rest of the GD team in the
leadership
of our work.
I am thrilled that Anasuya is joining us. She brings a deep passion for
social justice and an understanding of the power of free knowledge as an
enabler of opportunity for everyone. She will help us hold to our
commitments to increase the diversity of our community and has great
experience working collaboratively to change communities for the better.
She is also a really interesting person who I think we will all enjoy
being
around and learning from.
Below is an introduction that Anasuya prepared.
For those of you who will be at Wikimania, I know Anasuya is excited to
meet with all of you there.
Please join me in welcoming Anasuya to our team.
Best,
Barry
*Life will be measured *
*by notability test?*
*My secrets are mine!* ;-)
...but until we meet in person:
I am an activist turned grant-maker, who has worked nationally,
regionally,
and internationally, to build and strengthen multi-generational feminist
leadership and networks, and to amplify voices from the margins – whether
across gender, sexuality, class, caste, race, age, geography or
language. I
grew up in north Karnataka (southern India), and returned to work in this
part of the world after my undergraduate degree in Economics, as a
Programme Officer at Samuha, a rural development organisation. I took its
lessons with me into an M.Phil. in Development Studies at Oxford, where I
studied as a Rhodes Scholar. I led a UNICEF initiative with the Karnataka
police from 2001-2007, designing and implementing a state wide system of
response to issues of violence against women and children. Over the same
period, I served as Associate and researcher with Gender at Work, an
international knowledge network for gender equality. I co-edited and
wrote
for the Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
publication, *Defending
Our Dreams: global feminist voices for a new generation* (AWID and Zed
Books, 2006), arguably the first international anthology of young
feminist
analyses and experience. I have founded campaigns, and been involved with
national and international networks against religious and cultural
fundamentalisms, and for sexual and reproductive rights and women's
health.
In 2007, I moved from Bangalore to Berkeley, as a Visiting Scholar at UC
Berkeley and the Managing Trustee of a small Stanford-based family
foundation funding in South India. Over the past three years, I have been
Regional Program Director for Asia and Oceania at the Global Fund for
Women, one of the world's largest grant-making organisations exclusively
for women's human rights. In this capacity, I have overseen over 300
grants
to women-led organisations in the region – from Afghanistan to Kiribati -
and helped develop a framework for evaluating and learning our impact on
organisational growth and movement sustainability.
