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Sue Gardner is the current executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, and previous director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets.
In 2012, she was ranked as the 70th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. It was especially noted that she "...led the full-day Wikipedia blackout in protest against SOPA".
Gardner grew up in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of an Anglican minister and school principal. She received a degree in journalism from Ryerson University. She began her career on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio in 1990 on the program As It Happens, and worked for more than a decade as a producer, reporter and documentary-maker for CBC Radio current-affairs and for Newsworld International, focusing on pop culture and social issues.
In March 2006, she succeeded Claude Galipeau as senior director of the division of 150 new media staff developing CBC.ca, the CBC website and Internet platform.
Source: Wikipedia
In 2012, she was ranked as the 70th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. It was especially noted that she "...led the full-day Wikipedia blackout in protest against SOPA".
Gardner grew up in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of an Anglican minister and school principal. She received a degree in journalism from Ryerson University. She began her career on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio in 1990 on the program As It Happens, and worked for more than a decade as a producer, reporter and documentary-maker for CBC Radio current-affairs and for Newsworld International, focusing on pop culture and social issues.
In March 2006, she succeeded Claude Galipeau as senior director of the division of 150 new media staff developing CBC.ca, the CBC website and Internet platform.
Source: Wikipedia