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Display Name | Kaitlin Thaney |
First Name | Kaitlin |
Last Name | Thaney |
Affiliation | Invest in Open Infrastructure |
Twitter handle | kaythaney |
Biography | Kaitlin Thaney is the inaugural Executive Director of Invest in Open Infrastructure, a non-profit initiative dedicated to improving the funding and resourcing for open technology research relies on. Her career has been centered around open infrastructure organizations; helping them think strategically about program design, participatory engagement, and sustainability. Previously she served as the Endowment Director for the Wikimedia Foundation, where she led development of a fund to sustain the future of Wikipedia and free knowledge. Prior to joining Wikimedia, Thaney directed the program portfolio for the Mozilla Foundation, following her time building the Mozilla Science Lab, a program to serve the open research community. She was on the founding team for Digital Science, where she helped launch and advise programs to serve researchers worldwide, building on her time at Creative Commons, where she crafted legal, technical, and social infrastructure for sharing data on the web. She also serves on the board of LYRASIS, a technology and services nonprofit serving higher education, libraries, archives and museums, and is on the Board of Code for Science & Society, Invest in Open Infrastructure’s fiscal sponsor. She resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, toddler, and dog. |
ORCID 16 digit identifier | 0000-0002-7217-4494 |