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Jennifer Riggs has been the Wikimedia Foundation's [[Staff|Chief Program Officer]] since April 2009. She is responsible for |
Jennifer Riggs has been the Wikimedia Foundation's [[Staff|Chief Program Officer]] since April 2009. She is responsible for leading non-technical program activities including Communications, Public Outreach and Volunteer Support. |
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program activities such as volunteer recruitment and public outreach. |
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Jennifer comes to Wikimedia with a background in volunteer management and program administration. She has worked with local and international volunteer-driven organizations for 15 years including The American Red Cross - Bay Area Chapter, the California School-Age Consortium and the United States Peace Corps. Throughout her career, Jennifer has been passionate about developing training curricula to engage volunteers in building sustainable local capacity in a variety of topics including education, advocacy and environmental stewardship. Jennifer speaks conversational French, Sango (Central Africa) and Spanish. She has a BA in History with minors in Education and Political Science from New York University. |
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Jennifer comes to Wikimedia from the American Red Cross Bay Area chapter, where, as Manager of Volunteer Resources, she managed the |
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work of more than a thousand volunteers. Prior to the Red Cross, she was Project Director at the non-profit California School-Age |
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Consortium, where she ran a program of train-the-trainer workshops. Before that, she worked for six years in program administration at the |
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Peace Corps, as a Country Desk Office on the Central America Desk, a Country Desk Assistant on the Pacific Islands Desk, and a Training and |
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Technical Coordinator in Togo, West Africa. |
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Jennifer speaks French, Sango and some Spanish. She has a B.A. in History with minors in Education and Political Science from New York |
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University. |
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Revision as of 07:59, 22 August 2009
Jennifer Riggs has been the Wikimedia Foundation's Chief Program Officer since April 2009. She is responsible for leading non-technical program activities including Communications, Public Outreach and Volunteer Support.
Jennifer comes to Wikimedia with a background in volunteer management and program administration. She has worked with local and international volunteer-driven organizations for 15 years including The American Red Cross - Bay Area Chapter, the California School-Age Consortium and the United States Peace Corps. Throughout her career, Jennifer has been passionate about developing training curricula to engage volunteers in building sustainable local capacity in a variety of topics including education, advocacy and environmental stewardship. Jennifer speaks conversational French, Sango (Central Africa) and Spanish. She has a BA in History with minors in Education and Political Science from New York University.