Sue Gardner

Sue Gardner is the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the world's largest and most-popular encyclopedia, containing more than 21 million collaboratively-created articles in 280 languages, and used by more than 470 million people every month. Since joining the Wikimedia Foundation, Gardner has increased revenues 2900%, with a Charity Navigator analysis naming the Wikimedia Foundation the United States' fastest-growing non-profit as measured by revenue increase. Readership of Wikipedia has more than doubled, and the Wikimedia projects have become the world's fifth most-popular web property. In 2009, Gardner was named by the Huffington Post as its "media game changer" of the year. Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, Gardner ran CBC.CA, the website for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, one of Canada's most prominent and best-loved cultural institutions. She has worked as a journalist in radio, television, newspapers, magazines and online.

The free and open Internet! Wikipedia is an extraordinary accomplishment for humanity, and I'm concerned that the conditions that created it, and things like it, may not exist a decade from now.

Only two percent of FLOSS (free/libre/open-source software) developers are female. The ADA Initiative is an awesome new non-profit dedicated to increasing participation of women in open technology and culture, including Wikipedia. You should support ADA: https://donate.adainitiative.org