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Jennifer Riggs has been the Wikimedia Foundation's [[Staff|Chief Program Officer]] since April 2009. She is responsible for all non-technical
program activities such as volunteer recruitment and public outreach.


Jennifer Riggs was the Wikimedia Foundation's [[Job openings/Chief Program Officer|Chief Program Officer]] from April 2009 until September 2009. She was responsible for leading non-technical program activities including Communications, Public Outreach, and Volunteer Support.
Jennifer comes to Wikimedia from the American Red Cross Bay Area chapter, where, as Manager of Volunteer Resources, she managed the
work of more than a thousand volunteers. Prior to the Red Cross, she was Project Director at the non-profit California School-Age
Consortium, where she ran a program of train-the-trainer workshops. Before that, she worked for six years in program administration at the
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
Technical Coordinator in Togo, West Africa.

Jennifer speaks French, Sango and some Spanish. She has a B.A. in History with minors in Education and Political Science from New York
University.

Latest revision as of 22:16, 22 April 2012

Jennifer Riggs was the Wikimedia Foundation's Chief Program Officer from April 2009 until September 2009. She was responsible for leading non-technical program activities including Communications, Public Outreach, and Volunteer Support.