Kaitlin Thaney

Endowment Director, Wikimedia Foundation

New York City

Kaitlin Thaney helps mission-driven organizations think strategically about program design, participatory engagement and sustainability. She’s currently the Endowment Director for the Wikimedia Foundation, a permanent fund to sustain Wikipedia and its sister projects in perpetuity. Prior to joining Wikimedia, Thaney was a Director at the Mozilla Foundation, overseeing community-based programs in science, learning, advocacy, Internet of Things, and women and web literacy. She founded and directed Mozilla’s first science program – the Mozilla Science Lab – empowering thousands of researchers, developers, and librarians to collaborate through fellowships, open source and project-based learning. Thaney has also helped launch and advise programs, governments and companies through work at Digital Science, the U.K. eLeadership Council, Creative Commons, MIT, Microsoft, and more.