Trustee Evaluation Form
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Years of Experience
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<1
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1–2
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2–5
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5–10
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10+
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Wikimedia experience.
The candidate is a dedicated contributor to the Wikimedia movement. Eligible contributions include: contributions to the Wikimedia projects, membership in a Wikimedia organization or affiliate, activities as a Wikimedia movement organizer, or participation with a Wikimedia movement ally organization.
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10+ years: I have been a Wikimedian since 2007. I have served as an admin, Affiliate co-founder, AffCom officer, Movement Strategy Working Group member. Whenever there is an opportunity to do so, I talk about the wiki movement (press; presentations; conferences). As I have relationships with communities around the world, not just English-speaking, I understand their needs, especially those of the Affiliates. Additionally, Women in Red has helped build a global network of womxn around the Wikimedia movement.
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Board experience.
The candidate has served on the board of trustees/directors or other similar governing body of a nationally- or globally-focused organization (non-profit, for-profit, or governmental).
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<1 year: Though I have not served on a national/global board, I do serve as a member/officer of a regional board, Wikimedia District of Columbia (since 2016). Though Women in Red is not a registered non-profit, it is a global organization as recognized by ITU/UN Women who shortlisted it in 2016 for the GEM-TECH award.
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Executive experience.
The candidate has worked at an executive level for an organization, department, or project of comparable (or greater) size, complexity, and scope to the Wikimedia Foundation.
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No. I don't have executive experience at this scale. But I have managed multi-million dollar annual budgets for a US government contractor in the healthcare sector from 1993 to 2009, serving as the company’s representative in legal matters during that time.
I hold a post-graduate certificate in Executive Healthcare Leadership from the University of California, San Diego.
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Subject matter expertise.
The candidate has worked or significantly volunteered in an area relevant to the work of the Foundation and the Board. Such areas will be determined on an annual basis and may include areas such as Global movement building and community organization, enterprise-level platform technology and/or product development, public policy and the law, knowledge sector (e.g., academia/GLAM/education), human rights and social justice, open Internet/free and open source software, organizational strategy and management, finance and financial oversight, non-profit fundraising, human resources, board governance.
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10+ years: I have been involved in Movement Strategy since 2016, including serving on the Community Health Working Group. As a member of AffCom since 2016 (Chair since 2020), I have experience in community development and conflict resolution/management. For a decade, I have addressed Wikipedia’s content gender gap. Since 2017, I am a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston) focused on pre-XX-century women writers and their works. In my professional life, I have 15 years of experience with contract management and project management; 15 years of experience in Talent Acquisition including C-level positions. The title of my Master’s thesis was: “A Two Year Strategic IT Plan for a Non-Profit”.
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Diversity: Background
The candidate belongs or belonged to a group that has faced historical discrimination and underrepresentation in structures of power (related to, for example, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ identity, social class, economic status, or caste).
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Yes. I am a woman in my 60s.
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Diversity: Geography
The candidate would contribute to the overall geographic diversity of the Board of Trustees, based on the geographic regions where they have lived.
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No. I was born in the US to Yugoslav-born parents who met in a post-WWII DP camp. I grew up in a Serbian-speaking home with family members of 3 generations; English was the second language. This upbringing contributed to my lifelong interest in geographic and cultural diversity (traveled to 30+ foreign countries; hosted 8 foreign exchange students; sent my 2 sons in their school years to other continents as foreign exchange students).
In 2016, I co-developed a geographic-hub-based conference model (WCNA) (co-grantee; Core Team member since its establishment) which became a User Group (co-founder), the only conference-themed Affiliate within our movement.
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Diversity: Language
The candidate is a native speaker of a language other than English.
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Yes. My first language (childhood home language) is Serbian. EN (N); ES (1-2); FR (1-2). Language and cultural identity issues hold my interest, for example, the languages of Yugoslavia.
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Diversity: Political system experience
The candidate has substantial experience living in and/or working to share knowledge in a non-democratic, state-censoring, or repressive context.
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I have not lived in a non-democratic, state-censoring, or repressive country. However, for more than a decade, I have shared knowledge about women who have done so through the Wikipedia biographies I have created, for example, Margarita Ortega, Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida, Konkordiya Samoilova, and Tang Qunying.
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