Communications
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Communications is a Wikimedia Foundation department. The teams in the department lead the Foundation's efforts to openly and effectively share information — about the Wikimedia movement, the Wikimedia projects, and the Wikimedia Foundation's work itself — with a global audience including volunteer editors, site readers, and other stakeholders.
The Communications Department performs a variety of functions for the Foundation, such as maintaining relationships with the media, producing content for the Wikimedia Foundation website, managing the community blog Diff and Wikimedia's social media platforms, facilitating communications with Wikimedia communities, informing research into emerging global audiences, developing creative materials, and coordinating campaigns to engage new audiences for Wikimedia's projects.
The Vice President of Communications and leader of the department is Anusha Alikhan.
Department overview
Cross-departmental collaborations
Brand Studio team
- 2030 movement brand project
- Sound Logo
- Trademark policy
- Visual identity guidelines
- Wikimedia brands
- Wikimedia brand guidelines
- Wikimedia trademarks
External Communications team
- Communicating about the Wikimedia Foundation
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion communications research
- Newcomer experience marketing pilot
- Social media
- Wikimedia Foundation website
- Wikipedia Preview
Internal Communications team
- Supporting communications within the Wikimedia Foundation
Movement Communications team
- Communications committee (ComCom)
- Communications Resource Center
- Coordinating, documenting and sharing best practice on consultations and movement communications helping teams adapt
- Diff
- Engaging the movement with the annual plan
- Maryana's Listening tour
- Movement communications group (MoveCom)
- Movement communications insights
- Organization communications translators group
- WikiCelebrate
- Wikimania
- Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
- Wikimedian of the Year
- Working to make our movement communications more equitable and inclusive across regions
Program Management team
- Exploring continuous improvement opportunities, challenges, and inter- and intra-departmental dependencies
- Liaising within and across different departments and teams, e.g., Advancement, Product, Partnerships
- Developing, tracking, and assessing metrics for the department
- Monitoring and tracking department belonging
Staff and contractors
Brand Studio
Mathoto Matsetela-Hartmann (she/her)
Senior Manager, Global Brand
Johannesburg, South Africa |
External Communications
Ed Erhart (he/him)
Communications Specialist
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Analyst III
English, German, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, and Turkish Segun Oworu (he/him)
Senior Lifecycle Insights Analyst
English Olga Spingou (she/her)
Senior Manager, Integrated Marketing
English, French, Greek, and Spanish |
Internal Communications
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Movement Communications
Mayur Paul (he/him)
Director, Movement Communications
UTC+1 / UTC+0 |
Rae Adimer (they/them)
Movement Communications Associate
English Giselle Bordoy (she/her)
Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (Latin America)
UTC-3 Chris Koerner (he/him)
Senior Movement Communications Specialist
Midwestern United States Lead Movement Communications Specialist
San Francisco, United States Senior Manager, Global Movement Communications
English Lead Movement Communications Specialist
Canada Rachit Sharma (he/him)
Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (South Asia)
English, Hindi, and Punjabi Kelsi Stine-Rowe (she/her)
Senior Project Manager
English, French, Spanish, and Xhosa Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska (she/her)
Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (Europe)
Poznań, Poland Gregory Varnum (he/him)
Senior Strategist, Communications
United States Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (MENA)
Arabic, English, French, and Hebrew Vivien Chang (she/they)
Facilitation Specialist (East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific)
UTC+2 Community Facilitator (Japanese)
UTC+9 |
Program Management
Carla Casilli (she/her)
Senior Manager, Program Management
English |
Senior Creative Project Manager
English, French, Japanese, and Russian |
See also
- Communications Resource Center: A resource center for sharing knowledge on Wikimedia communications