Legal
Legal
The Legal Department, serving under General Counsel - Amanda Keton, oversee all legal matters for the Foundation and focus on key initiatives to help support the community consistent with our Foundation goals and values. We deal with a wide range of issues and projects, including community development, disinformation, domestic and international contracts, employment law, ethics, fundraising and grant law, human rights, international law, internet law, litigation, non-profit corporate governance, policy drafting, privacy law, public policy, trademark and copyright law and trust and safety.
Note: For legal ethical reasons, we unfortunately can only represent the Wikimedia Foundation and cannot be the attorney for the community or movement organizations, though the legal team often provides strong support to the community in many ways consistent with Wikimedia Foundation goals.
Leadership
Amanda Keton
General Counsel
Community Resilience and Sustainability is a wing of the Legal department, led by the Vice President of Community Resilience & Sustainability Maggie Dennis. We consist of Community Development, Human Rights, Movement Strategy and Governance, and Trust and Safety. Sustainability and Resilience are essential to the wellbeing of groups with shared aims. They refer to the ability of a community to thrive in terms of its systems, structures, and community relationships over time, and to the capacity of the community to absorb and recover from damage or threat. The goal of the community resilience & sustainability division of the Wikimedia Foundation is to support the movement in maturing its systems to achieve the key essential factors of both resilience and sustainability on the journey towards the sum of all human knowledge, both through directly run programs and through supporting as appropriate the work of other departments.
Maggie Dennis
Vice President
Nina Devolder
Lead Program Manager
Arik Karani
Lead Communications Specialist
Jackie Koerner
Communications Specialist
Simona Ramkisson
Manager
Asaf Bartov
Senior Program Officer
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Beverly Jiang
Learning & Development Strategist
Rebecca Maung
Senior Evaluation Strategist
Quim Gil
Director of Movement Strategy and Governance
Hanan El-Youssef
Lead Strategist, Movement Strategy
Kaarel Vaidla
Lead Movement Process Architect
Nhu Pham
Project Manager, Movement Strategy
Cornelius Kibelka
Events Coordinator
Mahuton Possoupe
Community Facilitator, French Language
Ramzy Muliawan
Community Facilitator, East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Chitraparna Sinha
Community Facilitator, South Asia
Mervat Salman
Community Facilitator, Middle East & North Africa
Zita Ursula Zage
Community Facilitator, Sub-Saharan Africa
Maciej Nadzikiewicz
Community Facilitator, Central and Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Tila Cappelletto
Community Facilitator, Latin America and the Caribbean
The Global Advocacy team helps the Foundation and affiliates protect the free knowledge movement through advocacy and public policy. The simple act of sharing knowledge freely online is radical and challenging in many contexts, and can be threatened by weak or hostile policy environments. This is why the Foundation and broader community engage in advocacy and public policy work. We work alongside the Wikimedia community because policy change is most successful when informed by those who are most directly impacted and best understand their local context. Together, we stand for policies that support and protect the Wikimedia model, its people, and its values. The Global Advocacy team is part of the Legal Department, and works with other teams and departments across the Foundation. To protect the community-governed model, we take action on policies related to access to knowledge and free expression. To protect the people in our community, we advocate for privacy rights and against mass surveillance. To protect the values of our movement, we lead by example by prioritizing human rights and countering disinformation.
Rebecca MacKinnon
VP of Global Advocacy
Jan Gerlach
Public Policy Director
Allison Davenport
Manager, Public Policy Research and Analysis
Katherine ("Kat") Gatewood
Senior Operations Manager
Richard ("Ricky") Gaines
Senior Human Rights Advocacy Manager
Rebecca MacKinnon
VP of Global Advocacy
Costanza Sciubba Caniglia
Anti-Disinformation Strategy Lead
Miguelángel ("Miguel") Verde Garrido
Senior Editor
Amalia Toledo
Lead Public Policy Specialist for Latin America and the Caribbean
Kate Ruanne
Lead Public Policy Specialist for the United States
Franziska ("Ziski") Putz
Movement Advocacy Manager
Aly Marino
Technology Law & Policy Fellow
Valentina Vera-Quiroz
Legal Fellow
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James Buatti
Senior Manager, Legal
Chuck Roslof
Lead Counsel
Shaun Spalding
Lead Counsel
Julianne Alberto
Senior Counsel (Contracts)
Funkola Odeleye
Lead Program Manager
Natasha Wright
Executive Assistant
Jacob Rogers
Legal Director
Kabir Darshan Sing Choudhary
Senior Counsel
Jack Glover
Senior Manager, Committee Support
Dumisani Ndubane
Governance Committee Strategist
Nicolas Aramayo
Paralegal
Aeryn Palmer
Director, Legal
Leighanna Mixter
Senior Manager, Legal
Clarissa Choy
Senior Counsel
Madi Moss
Senior Counsel
Ellen Magallanes
Senior Counsel
Cristina Butoiu
Legal Counsel