Stephanie Lieggi
Board Member at Apereo Foundation
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephanie Lieggi is a senior open source advocate and nonprofit leader with nine years focused on advancing research impact through transparent, community-driven software and policy. As Executive Director of both UCSC's Open Source Program Office and the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS), she builds strategic programs that connect academia, industry, and funders to scale sustainable open source research. A current board member at the Apereo Foundation, she combines fundraising, public speaking, and writing to drive adoption and long-term stewardship of open projects. Her background in international policy and nonproliferation research gives her a rare public‑policy lens on governance, compliance, and responsible disclosure in technical communities. Based in California, she is known for turning academic outputs into practical open ecosystems that increase societal benefit. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic connector who elevates community voices while steering measurable institutional change.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoMaster of Arts (MA), International Policy Studies, Master of Arts (MA), International Policy Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Chinese, Dutch
Github Skills (2)
foundation6
jekyll1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UC-OSPO-Network/ucospo.net
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
University of California OSPO Network
Contributions:2 reviews, 57 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year
kindler-king/ucsc-ospo.github.io
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Website of the Open Source Program Office, UC Santa Cruz
Contributions:5 pushes in 8 months
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