Welcome Rachel. Glad to have you here. On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > It’s my great pleasure to tell you that Rachel diCerbo is joining us > as Director of Community Engagement (Product), starting today. In this > role, Rachel will manage the community liaison team (Keegan Peterzell, > Sherry Snyder, Nick Wilson, and Erica Litrenta) and ensure that our > technical projects receive community engagement support throughout > their development. > > Rachel discovered her love for collaborative communities with > Couchsurfing. When she joined the community in 2005, Couchsurfing was > a small non-profit, with essential functions being filled by > volunteers. This included responding to safety issues: staying at > someone else’s home or hosting a stranger carries risks, some obvious, > some less so. Rachel founded and led the community’s all-volunteer > safety team. She was also a member of the non-profit’s Board of > Directors from 2007-2011. > > After volunteering for two years, she joined the organization > full-time as Head of Trust & Safety in 2008. She was responsible for > enacting policies related to incident reporting, profile removal, and > other safety issues, and handled any high level legal issues and > communications related to Couchsurfing member safety. She implemented > training, documentation, and case review processes for her team. > > As part of her role, she also directly interfaced with Couchsurfing’s > engineering team and helped scope functionality related to safety & > moderation. The work on the safety team also equipped her well for > working across culture and languages, as issues would often arise > around differing cultural sensitivities. She’s travelled to 38 > countries and lived on 5 continents. > > Prior to Couchsurfing, Rachel pursued a passion for theater while > temping in various roles for various companies. Her additional > interests include digital rights, women’s rights and safety worldwide, > and scuba diving. In her spare time, she seeks to perfect her pulled > pork recipe, sews, and reads all the things. > > Rachel is new to the community, and due to the nature of her role, > she’ll be spending some time just learning how to edit and how things > work in our weird & wonderful world. She’s planning a face-to-face > meeting with her team the week of June 9th and will be attending > WikiConference USA later this week. > > Please join me in welcoming Rachel to the Wikimedia Foundation and to > the community. > > Warmly, > > Erik > > PS: Big thanks to everyone who’s been part of the search process, to > the liaison team for doing awesome work in an emerging structure, and > to Philippe, Maggie and Howie for all their work in bootstrapping the > team, and for supporting Rachel as she steps into the role. :-) > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. > For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l
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