In July 2006, I was brought on by the Mozilla Corporation to help the key leaders and contributors of Mozilla think about how to run a community-giving program. After spending several months finding the most leveraged ways to provide resources to the community, I found myself focusing more and more on our localization efforts. Our community of localizers translates the Mozilla Firefox browser into many different languages and I was finding creative ways to help. Eventually, I became Director of our Localization team, focusing on expanding Mozilla’s impact on the Web by helping our localizers translate Mozilla into an ever-growing number of languages.
Prior to Mozilla, I attended the University of California, Berkeley where I received my Masters in Business Administration. I decided to go to business school after my work at Ashoka, which is a global nonprofit organization that focuses on advancing the field of social entrepreneurship by building a global community of Ashoka Fellows. I attended Cornell University and graduated in 1999. While I was there, I spent my first two years in the Engineering College and then transferred to the Agriculture and Life Sciences College where I majored in Agriculture, Resource and Managerial Economics. I also ran cross country and track for three of the four years I was there.
