We are glad to have you, Emily, Welcome
Mardetanha On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 5:31 AM Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > In February 2021, I reached out to you [0] to gather your input for a > new position that we were creating in the Research team [1] at the > Wikimedia Foundation, a research community focus role. In March 2021, > I shared the job opening with you [2]. Today I'm introducing Emily > Lescak who joined our team in June 2021 as a Senior Research Community > Officer. > > Emily earned a PhD in Fisheries from the University of Alaska > Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences [3] and has > extensive experience in research, data science, education and > community engagement. She was a National Science Foundation-funded > postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alaska Anchorage [4], a > fisheries geneticist at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game [5], > and the program specialist for the Genetics Society of America’s Peer > Review Training Program [6]. Most recently, she developed The Event > Fund [7] at Code for Science & Society [8], which provides financial > and programmatic support to organizers of international open data > science events. > > In the Research team Emily will focus on initiatives that help expand, > diversify and support the community of Wikimedia researchers globally. > My ask to Emily has been to focus her efforts between July 2021 and > June 22 (Fiscal Year 22) primarily on developing a strategy for our > team with regards to our responsibility towards and opportunity in > interacting with (the Wikimedia) researchers. Emily will be building > on some of our early thoughts as a team in this space developed in > 2019 [9] and will work closely with many of you to achieve this goal. > To this end, she has started a listening tour to learn more from the > perspectives of some of the existing community members. If you'd like > to talk with Emily, you should feel welcome to email her directly or > express interest in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287615 . > > Please welcome Emily to the research community! :) > > Best, > Leila > > > [0] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/FFK7FZTE544HW7D6JVVSPZOPBJC2S6N2/ > > [1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html > > [2] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/SMF7BZDF4FX26Y4JMIESN5ALXE7ZXCDL/ > > [3] https://www.uaf.edu/cfos/ > > [4] > https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments/biological-sciences/ > > [5] > https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=fishinggeneconservationlab.main > > [6] > https://genetics-gsa.org/career-development/genetics-peer-review-training-program/ > > [7] https://eventfund.codeforscience.org/ > > [8] https://codeforscience.org/ > > [9] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foundations_-_Wikimedia_Research_2030.pdf > > > -- > Leila Zia > Head of Research > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
