Mozilla Open Leaders

Mozilla Open Leaders

Participants

We are thrilled to announce the organizers participating in Open Leaders X (OLˣ). This cohort will receive movement-building training and work closely with Mozilla staff and fellows to design new open leadership programs for their communities.

OLX Participants

This cohort spans from Lagos to London with program focuses ranging from Healthier AI to Accessible Online Security. We are pleased to share the 10 groups joining the next phase of Open Leaders.

Join me as we welcome this group fueling the Internet Health movement!


Healthier AI

Organizers

Shina Dhingra

Charlotte, NC

Mozilla Wrangler 2022. Data Scientist. Organizer at Healthier AI. Lover of all things coffee!

Working at, Intel® AI For Youth. Extracurricular at CultrStudio, Healthier AI. Mozillian for about 5 years, now serving as a Council Member.

Mozilla Champion


Open Source

Organizer

Director at codebar.io. Senior Ecosystem Advocate at Continuous Delivery Foundation / Linux Foundation. Mozilla Open Leaders X participant.

Mozilla Champion

Mehan Jayasuriya

Portland, Oregon, USA

Mehan is a Senior Program Officer at the Mozilla Foundation who leads programs that grow the open source and community network ecosystems.


Open Educational Resources (OER)

Organizers

Greg Mcverry

East Haddam, CT

Greg McVerry is an IndieWeb and OER advocate who believes world will be better when we all can finish the sentence, "My url is..."

Sadik Shahadu

Accra, Greater Accra region, Ghana

MozFest Wrangler/Ambassador for Mozilla Festival 2022, Mozilla OLX Fellow and West African Indigenous Language Coordinator at Art+Feminism.

Mozilla Champion

Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

Toronto, Canada

Leading Mozilla's developer-focused strategy around trustworthy AI and MozFest.


Open Campaigning on the Internet Health Report

Organizers

Mozilla Open Internet Leader, Wrangler, Ambassador & Creative Media Awardee. Founder at Digital Grassroots. I care about digital inequality.

Uffa Modey

Middlesbrough, England (and Lagos, Nigeria)

MozFest 2021 & 2022 Wrangler. Software Engineer. Co-founder & Global Lead at Digital Grassroots.

Mozilla Champion

Jairus Khan

Toronto, Canada

Internet Health Outreach. Advocate. Hacker. Organizer. Noisemaker.


Open Innovation for Research

Organizer

Emmy Tsang

Cambridge, UK

Innovation Community Manager @ eLife, <3 open science and community

Mozilla Champion

Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

Toronto, Canada

Leading Mozilla's developer-focused strategy around trustworthy AI and MozFest.


Open Arts

Organizer

Christopher Coleman

Denver, CO USA

Artist and Professor of Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver. Director of the Clinic for Open Source Arts.

Mozilla Champion

Sam Muirhead

Wellington, NZ

Mozilla Fellow 2018-19, working on an open source approach to illustration & animation. Free Culture, Free Software, Open Design.


Open Hardware

Organizers

Jose Carlos Urra Llanusa

Delft, Netherlands

I am industrial and UX designer passionate about bridging open source collaboration with sustainable development.

Alexander Kutschera

Munich, Germany

I love 3D printing, recreating scientific instruments and getting lost on unnecessary nerdy projects.

Juli Arancio

Geneva, Switzerland

I study how open science hardware democratizes science & tech, and I also run some community science projects that use it.

Mozilla Champion

André Maia Chagas

Brighton, UK

Mozilla Fellow, Open Science advocate -focus on OS Hardware. Creator of OpenNeuroscience, collab @TReNDinAfrica, editor @PLOS OS toolkit


Open Post-Academics

Organizers

Beth Duckles

Portland, Oregon

she/her | Social scientist & Research consultant | 2022 Wrangler (Sustainability & Climate Change) | Open Post Academics | Lover of tea

Mozilla Champion

Julia Stewart Lowndes

Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Mozilla Fellow working to increase the value and practice of open/data science in environmental science through community, data, and code


Accessible Online Security

Organizer

Brian Obilo

Nairobi, Kenya

Mozilla Fellow working towards advancing Cyber Security Capacity Building and promoting Cyber Awareness and Resilience approaches.

Maurine Chepkoech

Nairobi, Kenya

Telecommunications engineer | cybersecurity researcher | passionate about diversity inclusion in technology spaces and mentorship|

Mozilla Champion

Selina Musuta

Washington D.C., USA

A web developer and infosec practitioner that is inspired daily by speculative fiction, music, and her people’s ability to survive & thrive


Open Life Science

Organizers

Yo Yehudi

Cambridge, UK

Fond of open science, open source, and vegetables. Participant/mentor/host in OL4, 5, 6, 7, X. 2018 Openness MozFest Wrangler.

Bérénice Batut

Freiburg, Germany

Bioinformatician and Trainer at the University of Freiburg Mozilla OL6 Grad and OL7 Mentor <3 Open Science and Education

Community Outreach Coordinator at EMBL. Promoting Inclusiveness in Open Science. Mozilla OL7 Grad. SSI Fellow. 💚everything Open 😇

Mozilla Champion

Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

Toronto, Canada

Leading Mozilla's developer-focused strategy around trustworthy AI and MozFest.