I care about open knowledge — making good information easy for people to find and actually use, wherever they are. Most of my work, first as a volunteer and later in more formal roles, has been about connecting people who hold expertise with the volunteers who help share that knowledge online: through Wikipedia, Kiwix, OpenStreetMap, GitHub, and Wikimedia Commons. I've come to believe that connection is at the heart of building a public knowledge commons — one that can genuinely help with things like human rights, education, and climate change.
I like coming at problems from a few different angles, but the goal is always the same: get useful information to the people who need it, in a form they can actually use.
Outside of open knowledge, I have a background in the humanities and teaching, and along the way I've picked up a real love for podcasting. I think audio is an underused way to share knowledge — it lets people speak for themselves, in their own voice, rather than being summarized by someone else.
These days I help lead the Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan, Open Knowledge South Sudan, and the local OpenStreetMap community. Mostly that means supporting other people who want to contribute — helping them find their footing and stick with it.
At the core, what I want is simple: help people access good information, and help them use it to make things a little better.
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