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People

Small core, a great board, lots of partners, and soon, fellowships!

The Team

George Oates

Co-Founder & Executive Director
George is a designer and director who has worked on the web since 1996. She was the first designer at flickr.com from 2003-2008 and has centered her practice in the cultural heritage sector since then.
Email: glo@flickr.org

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Jessamyn West

Community Manager, Flickr Commons
Jessamyn is a veteran online community manager, library technologist, and creator of excellent documentation.

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Alex Chan

Tech Lead
Alex is a software developer, with a particular interest in digital preservation. When not at a computer, they can often be found with needle in hand or dance shoe on foot.

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Archivist

(Coming soon!)

Program Manager

(Coming soon!)
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Research Fellows

Jenn Phillips-Bacher

Inaugural Research Fellow
Jenn is a digital and web all-rounder who’s managed products and projects, conducted user research and UX design, and genuinely enjoys organizing information. She’s been working in cultural heritage and non-profits since the early 2000s.

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Our Board of Directors

Ryan Merkley

Board Chair
Ryan is Managing Director at Aspen Digital, and previously served as Chief of Staff at the Wikimedia Foundation, and CEO of Creative Commons before that.

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Stephanie McVey

Treasurer
Stephanie is the Chief Financial Officer at SmugMug + Flickr.

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Ben MacAskill

Board Observer
Ben is President & COO of SmugMug + Flickr, and Co-Founder of flickr.org.

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You?

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The Advisory Board

Adam Harvey

Adam Harvey (US/DE) is an artist and applied researcher based in Berlin focused on computer vision, privacy, and surveillance.
adam.harvey.studio

Anasuya Sengupta

Poet, author, activist, and a cited expert in representation for marginalized voices on the Internet.
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Ben Cerveny

Strategist, designer, and co-founder of Foundation for Public Code.
Visit publiccode.net

Elizabeth Churchill

HCI/CogSci research leader and Director of UX.
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Jennie-Rose Halperin

Commons and Libraries specialist and director of Library Futures, a project of The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law.
Jennie's website
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Special thanks

Thank you to Liz Hall, Flickr’s Director of Product Design, for designing the flickr.org logo, and to Carol Benovic-Bradley, (former) Director of Community at Flickr, for helping George reconnect with the Flickr Commons community, contributing to the 100-year plan workshops, and staying on top of all the moving bits.

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SmugMug+Flickr volunteers

There is absolutely no way we could have come this far without the generous work of the SmugMug+Flickr team including Alastair, Andrew, Christine, Cora, Craig, Dimi, Emily, Ethan, Erin, Jill, Leticia, Mackenzie, MJ, Navnit, Norby, Phil, Rode, Sarah, Seville, Shannon, Stads, Veronica, Ves, and more! Thank you. Thank you!