Kaitlin Thaney
Kaitlin Thaney is the executive director of Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), a nonprofit initiative dedicated to increasing the investment in and adoption of open systems that research relies on. Her career has been centered around open infrastructure organizations—helping them think strategically about program design, participatory engagement, and sustainability.
Previously she served as the endowment director for the Wikimedia Foundation, where she led development of a fund to sustain the future of Wikipedia and free knowledge. Prior to joining Wikimedia, Thaney directed the program portfolio for the Mozilla Foundation, following her time building the Mozilla Science Lab, a program to serve the open research community. She was on the founding team for Digital Science, where she helped launch and advise programs to serve researchers worldwide, building on her time at Creative Commons, where she crafted legal, technical, and social infrastructure for sharing data on the web.
She also serves on the board of LYRASIS, a technology and services nonprofit serving higher education, libraries, archives and museums, and previously served as a board member for Code for Science & Society, Invest in Open Infrastructure’s fiscal sponsor, Open Collective Foundation, and DataKind UK.
