My interest in the Wikimedia community was sparked in late 2004 when I noticed university policy being created to address the use of Wikipedia citations in research papers and thesis. I started editing casually and then found myself captivated by the vision of a set of tools and resources created to collect all of the world's information. My proudest contribution has been the hundreds of individual researches, authors, and journalists that I have hand recruited to contribute their expertise to the Wikimedia Projects.


The Board of Trustees has the ultimate obligation to be the voice of the community, to safeguard the incredible resource of knowledge that has been collected, and to ensure its solvency and sustainability for future generations.



As a Trustee, I will be an advocate of open, transparent dialogue with the community and will strive to serve as both its voice and its messenger. Specifically, I will:






I believe that it is imperative that a robust, long-term financial plan be implemented for the Foundation, one that underscores the importance of the sustainability and longevity of the project's efforts. To this end, I believe that a sizable endowment, on scale with that of a mid-tier private university, should be raised.




















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