Gregory Varnum
Senior Strategist, Communications
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGregory Varnum is a seasoned communications strategist and nonprofit leader with 11+ years advancing human rights, free knowledge, and equity-focused initiatives from San Francisco. As Senior Strategist, Communications at the Wikimedia Foundation since 2015, he blends corporate and community communications to support volunteers and global chapters. He also founded and leads the Aequalitas Project, incubating progressive programs like WikiQueer and Queer Camp Alliance, and runs VarnEnt to advise mission-driven organizations. Gregory’s background spans executive nonprofit roles in youth and LGBT advocacy, plus hands-on tech and program operations from his early IT and camp-director days. Known for turning grassroots ideas into sustainable programs, he pairs strategic storytelling with practical capacity-building. He brings uncommon depth in both community-facing communications and organizational incubation, making him effective at scaling volunteer-led movements.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Political Science, Bachelor, Political Science at Eastern Michigan University
English
Github Skills (24)
wikipedia10
python9
wordpress9
wikimedia8
mediawiki8
foundation8
gerrit7
wordpress-plugin6
shiro6
wbstack5
wikibase4
tiddlywiki3
thunderbird3
sqf2
disable2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/wikimediafoundation-org
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Public mirror for the code base of the wikimediafoundation.org site.
Contributions:738 commits, 8 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 years 10 months
wikipythonbase-code
wikimedia/contest-tools-wordpress-plugin
May 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 6 months
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