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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

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• Reports
• Research

Cross-departmental collaborations

• A Wiki Minute
• Open the Knowledge
  • Open the Knowledge: Journalism Awards
  • Open the Knowledge: Stories
• Project Rewrite
• Wiki Unseen

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
  • Press room
  • Wikimedia News
• 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

Anusha Alikhan Vice President of Communications English AAlikhan (WMF) aalikhanwikimedia.org

Leticia Navarro Administrative Specialist San Francisco, United States UTC-8 / UTC-7 English LNavarro (WMF) lnavarrowikimedia.org

Brand Studio

Zachary McCune Director of Brand English ZMcCune (WMF) zmccunewikimedia.org ZMcCune Zacharymccune

Corli de Kock Senior Brand Strategist English CDekock-WMF Tas Elias Brand Collaboration Lead English TElias (WMF) teliaswikimedia.org Samir Elsharbaty Brand Associate English Selsharbaty (WMF) selsharbatywikimedia.org Blanca Flores Senior Designer English BFlores (WMF) bfloreswikimedia.org BFlores Mathoto Matsetela-Hartmann (she/her) Senior Manager, Global Brand Johannesburg, South Africa UTC+2 English MMatsetela (WMF) mmatsetelawikimedia.org Jordan McRae Multimedia Designer English JMcRae-WMF Marina Ramos Senior Copywriter English MRamos (WMF) mramoswikimedia.org

External Communications

Nazneen Nawaz Senior Director, External Communications English NNawaz-WMF

Alberto Anton Integrated Marketing Specialist English AAnton-WMF aantonwikimedia.org Gabrielle Basha Associate, Executive Communications English GBasha-WMF Brooke Camarda Senior Marketing Specialist English BCamarda (WMF) bcamardawikimedia.org Sara Campos Senior Digital Experience Specialist English SCampos-WMF scamposwikimedia.org Lauren Dickinson (she/her) Senior Manager, Communications English LDickinson (WMF) Ed Erhart (he/him) Communications Specialist Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States UTC-6 / UTC-5 English Ed Erhart (WMF) eerhartwikimedia.org EdErhart-WMF The ed17 Vidhu Goyal Lead Communications Specialist English VGoyal (WMF) Nino Hemmer Head of Audience Insights English AHemmer (WMF) ahemmerwikimedia.org Barbara Kandek Communications Specialist English BKandek (WMF) Fu-Ying Lin Analyst III English, German, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, and Turkish FLin-WMF flinwikimedia.org Gwada Majange Lead Communications Specialist English GMajange (WMF) Segun Oworu (he/him) Senior Lifecycle Insights Analyst English SOworu (WMF) soworuwikimedia.org soworu Lucas Pasqual Senior Social Media Specialist English LPasqual (WMF) Laura Pulecio Duarte Advocacy Communications Specialist English LPulecio-WMF Olga Spingou (she/her) Senior Manager, Integrated Marketing English, French, Greek, and Spanish OSpingou (WMF) ospingouwikimedia.org

Internal Communications

Evelyn Mwangi Director, Internal Communications English EMwangi (WMF)

Lindsay Ferguson Internal Communications Lead English LFerguson (WMF)

Movement Communications

Mayur Paul (he/him) (pronunciation) Director, Movement Communications UTC+1 / UTC+0 English, Hindi, Italian, Panjabi, and Urdu MPaul (WMF) mpaulwikimedia.org

Rae Adimer (they/them) Movement Communications Associate English RAdimer-WMF radimer-ctrwikimedia.org Vermont Giselle Bordoy (she/her) Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (Latin America) UTC-3 English and Spanish GBordoy (WMF) gbordoy-ctrwikimedia.org Winnie Kabintie Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (Africa) English WKabinte-WMF Chris Koerner (he/him) Senior Movement Communications Specialist Midwestern United States English CKoerner (WMF) ckoernerwikimedia.org CKoerner_WMF Ckoerner Elena Lappen Lead Movement Communications Specialist San Francisco, United States UTC-8 / UTC-7 English, Portuguese, and Spanish ELappen (WMF) elappenwikimedia.org elappen-WMF Elena.laps Belinda Mbambo Senior Manager, Global Movement Communications English BMbambo (WMF) bmbambowikimedia.org Blkstar Lisa McCabe Senior Manager, Movement Communications English LMccabe (WMF) Mehrdad Pourzakikhani Lead Movement Communications Specialist Canada English, French, Persian, and Spanish MPourzaki (WMF) mpourzakiwikimedia.org Rachit Sharma (he/him) Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (South Asia) English, Hindi, and Punjabi RASharma (WMF) Kelsi Stine-Rowe (she/her) Senior Project Manager English, French, Spanish, and Xhosa KStineRowe (WMF) kstinerowewikimedia.org Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska (she/her) Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (Europe) Poznań, Poland UTC+1 / UTC+2 English, Polish, and Spanish NSzafran-WMF nszafranwikimedia.org Magalia Gregory Varnum (he/him) Senior Strategist, Communications United States English GVarnum-WMF gvarnumwikimedia.org IRC: Varnent Varnent Varnent Manar Yacoub Criner Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (MENA) Arabic, English, French, and Hebrew MYacoubCriner-WMF myacoubcrinerwikimedia.org Vivien Chang (she/they) Facilitation Specialist (East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific) UTC+2 English VChang (WMF) vchangwikimedia.org Junko Nakayama Community Facilitator (Japanese) UTC+9 Japanese and English JNakayama-WMF jnakayama-ctrwikimedia.org

Program Management

Carla Casilli (she/her) Senior Manager, Program Management English CCasilli (WMF) ccasilliwikimedia.org Euniat

Amba Priya Dube Project Manager English APDube-WMF Kenyatta Forbes Senior Project Manager English KForbes-WMF kforbeswikimedia.org Lena Traer Senior Creative Project Manager English, French, Japanese, and Russian LTraer (WMF) ltraerwikimedia.org LTraer

See also

• Communications Resource Center: A resource center for sharing knowledge on Wikimedia communications