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Sue Gardner
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Canadian journalist and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Sue Gardner is a Canadian journalist, writer, businessperson, and manager born in Bridgetown on May 11, 1967. She holds the position of trustee and has been employed by the Wikimedia Foundation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and The Tor Project, Inc. Gardner is a citizen of Canada who speaks English and resides in San Francisco and Port Hope. She was educated at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Her written works include titles such as *Embroidered christening gowns*, *A-Z of Thread Painting*, *World's Most Beautiful Embroidered Blankets*, *A-Z of Knitting*, and *Old Stories from Warwick's Past*. Gardner has participated in Wikimania events in 2010, 2013, and 2014.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 29
Top works
- Embroidered christening gowns
- A-Z of Thread Painting
- World's Most Beautiful Embroidered Blankets
- A-Z of Knitting
- Old Stories from Warwick's Past
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Gardner
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Bridgetown
- Occupation
- manager
- Position held
- trustee
- Educated at
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- Wikimania 2014
- Official website
- www.suegardner.org
- Image
- Jay-dixit jay-dixit-photos wikimedia-2024 7709.jpg
- Residence
- Port Hope
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- Sue Gardner
- date of birth
- 1967-05-11
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- social media followers
- 7476
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Encyclopedic overview
Sue Gardner (born May 11, 1967) is a Canadian journalist, not-for-profit executive and business executive. She was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until May 2014, and before that was the director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets.
In 2012, Gardner was ranked as the 70th-most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. In 2013, she joined the board of Global Voices. In May 2015, the Tor Project announced that Gardner would be assisting with the development of their long-term organizational strategy. In 2018, she was announced as executive director of The Markup. Gardner left this position in May 2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sue Gardner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.