Sharon Leon
Co-Chief Executive Officer at 6floors Consulting
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSharon Leon is a digital humanities leader and co-CEO with two decades of experience stewarding mission-critical open-source tools like Omeka and Zotero through her work at Digital Scholar. She combines scholarly rigor—holding a PhD in American Studies—with product and organizational leadership, directing Omeka since 2007 and moving from VP to COO and now Co-CEO. Her work bridges public history, linked open data, and community-centered archival projects, exemplified by the Jesuit Plantation Project and the On These Grounds ontology for describing enslaved lives. Formerly an associate professor and long-time director at RRCHNM, she has led award-winning public history initiatives that translate complex humanities research into accessible digital platforms. Beyond management she remains an active practitioner, consultant, and nonprofit treasurer who pairs grant-funded scholarship with sustainable software stewardship. Based in Falls Church, VA, she brings an uncommon mix of academic authorship, technical product stewardship, and community-centered archival innovation.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD American Studies, PhD American Studies at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Arts (BA) American Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA) American Studies at Georgetown University
Github Skills (53)
cms10
scroll10
omeka10
metadata10
pool10
local-network10
nette10
linked-data10
vuepress10
php10
collections10
open-access10
creative-commons10
documentation9
combine8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sharonmleon/JPPData
Sep 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:46 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
onthesegrounds/vocabularies
Mar 2021 - May 2023
OTG linked data vocabularies
Contributions:4 releases, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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