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Community Development

We are a team of design thinkers, instructional designers, and trainers that believe that our communities must have the skills to grow and lead in their local contexts if we are to be the platform for the world's knowledge.

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The team

Simona Ramkisson

Director of Community Development

Asaf Bartov

Lead Program Officer

Melissa Guadalupe Huertas

Senior Learning and Capacity Strategist

Cassie Casares

Learning & Development Specialist

Beverly Jiang

Manager, Community Development

Sailesh Patnaik

Senior Program Officer, Community Development

Anamaría Espinoza

Instructional Designer

Bridgit Kurgat

Lead Program Officer, Gender

How we work

We facilitate community growth through learning and development which means designing tools, experiences and programs that help communities grow in size, enhance the resilience of volunteers and support community governance and leadership.

Selected current projects

• WikiLearn
• Wikipedia for Researchers Course
• Introduction to Patrolling Course
• Hubs
• Let's Connect Program

Past projects

• Leadership Development Working Group
• Movement Leadership Development Plan
• WMF Board of Trustees Candidate Onboarding
• Community Calls and Clinics

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.