2022 was a year of learning and reflection on what meaningful work means to me. This brought on some big changes and new adventures! I’m grateful for this annual tradition to look back at the beginning of a new year. Past Year in Reviews: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. ✨ A Few Highlights ✨ …

Lessons Learned From 8 Years at Mozilla — After nearly 8 years as a paid contributor at Mozilla, I’m taking time to reflect on lessons I learned while fueling a movement for a healthy internet. As I dive into my new role at GitHub, I want to bring the best of my experiences as a Mozillian. I joined…

As a Mozillian, I’m passionate about building the open ecosystem through mentorship, training and convenings. Through this work I’ve seen that open source maintainers have an outsized impact on our space. Maintainers shape how communities collaborate, secure funding, and ensure projects function sustainably. Because of this, I’ve joined GitHub — the home for open source! I’m excited to work with the largest community of open source developers on programs that deeply support maintainers. I’ll be running GitHub’s open source maintainer programs, where it’s become clear that strong, skilled, and compensated maintainers are key to a sustainable open source ecosystem.

In many ways, 2021 felt like a repeat of 2020. But for me, this was the perfect setting to virtually engage with the open source community while bonding with a newborn at home. In my day-to-day, I tend to think about tomorrow more than yesterday. I love this chance at…

While 2020 was a tough year, I think it’s important to pause and continue this tradition of looking back and reflecting. Movement Building and Trustworthy AI This year, I focused on my new role leading Mozilla’s developer-focused strategy around trustworthy AI and MozFest. …

At the start of a new decade, I want to continue this tradition to pause and be thankful for 2019 while looking forward to the 2020s. Movement Building: The Next Step In 2019, I was able to focus on Mozilla’s movement-building work for a healthy internet and test out ways to grow. After years of…

Openness in science We’ve seen openness inspire movements and transform various fields. Most of these stem from the four freedoms in the Free Software Definition and the Open Source Definition. The Open Knowledge Foundation does a good job summarizing the thinking around ‘open’ in a way that applies well to science: “Knowledge is…

Update: Applications are open for OLˣ! Applications close Aug 1st 11:59am Mozilla Open Leaders started 3.5 years ago to make openness the norm in innovation and research. Through personal mentorship and cohort-based training, participants learn how to lead open projects. …

Openness at Mozilla, part 2 — This post is part 2 of the Openness at Mozilla series. Read part 1, Building an Open Movement for Internet Health. Three years ago, I started Mozilla Open Leaders by mentoring a handful of champions in the internet health movement. …