Kaitlin Thaney
Advisory Board at Internet Archive Europe
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaitlin Thaney is a strategic leader with 12+ years driving investment, governance and sustainability for open technology and knowledge infrastructures across organizations like Invest in Open Infrastructure, Mozilla, Wikimedia, and Creative Commons. She builds funding pathways and organizational capacity for open access to content, data, research and code, blending program design, board governance, and nonprofit finance expertise. Based in New York, she has steered major transitions—such as the DuraSpace–LYRASIS merger—and led multi-million dollar program portfolios and endowment strategy to ensure long-term resilience. Kaitlin pairs policy and advocacy instincts with hands-on program development, having launched Mozilla’s science program and advanced open science practices early in her career. An active advisor to data and public-interest tech initiatives, she focuses on practical, sustainable models that move open infrastructure from ideals to funded reality. Her background in journalism and communications gives her a rare gift for translating technical and governance complexity into compelling narratives that win support.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, Political Science, Law, Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, Political Science, Law at Northeastern University
Github Skills (38)
vows9
ecology7
mozilla7
science6
react5
rails5
python5
javascript5
open-science4
biology4
reproducible-research4
database4
planning3
computational-biology3
infrastructure3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thaneyriordan/plan
Dec 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 34 comments in 7 years 3 months
mozillascience/mozilla-fellows
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 2 days
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