User:Jwild

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Jessie Wild is a Special Projects Manager in the Global Development of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Jessie joined the Wikimedia Foundation full time in 2010, after doing several months of external consulting work with the Foundation. She serves as a Special Projects Manager on the Global Development team: a programmatic team committed to encouraging the growth of Wikimedia communities and the projects around the world with a priority focus on the Global South. Jessie contributes to a range of initiatives including establishing our India, Brazil, MENA activities, supporting strategies for mobile and offline, orchestrating University and OER relationships, and other unpredictable roles as the Global Development work is being built!

Prior to joining Wikimedia, Jessie worked with the Bridgespan Group in San Francisco and, among other cases in education and youth development, was on the team that supported the strategy development process at WMF. Before Bridgespan, Jessie was a strategy consultant with Bain & Co. in Chicago where she worked in various industries including Consumer Products, Healthcare, and Financial Services, as well as served in the Private Equity Group. She hails from Carmel, Indiana and graduated from Indiana University in Public Policy Analysis and International Business, with focuses on Spanish and Religious Studies.


Contact
  • Email: jwild@wikimedia.org
  • Gtalk: wild.jessie
  • Skype: jessie.wild
  • IRC: jwild