My grantmaking work brings together research development, community funding, and capacity building across higher education, writing studies, and the Wikimedia movement. I have secured competitive funding for research and public scholarship from organizations including the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and the Wikimedia Foundation, including a 2018 CCCC Research Initiative Grant for a national study of how rhetoric, composition, and writing studies faculty engage with Wikipedia, as well as Wikimedia Foundation grants supporting research on Wikimedia impact metrics, the relationship between science and Wikimedia, and external funding opportunities for Wikimedia communities. My work has also increasingly extended beyond writing grants to participating in and developing grantmaking systems themselves. I served on the Wikimedia Foundation’s North America Regional Grants Committee from 2021–2025 and currently serve on the Global Resources Distribution Committee, while my current STRENGTHEN project with Brett Buttliere focuses on helping Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates identify external funding opportunities, develop proposals, build partnerships, and share grantmaking knowledge across the movement.
About the STRENGTHEN project
STRENGTHEN (Strengthening Wikimedia Communities Through Shared External Grantmaking Knowledge and Collaboration) is a community capacity-building project designed to help Wikimedia contributors and affiliates access funding beyond the Wikimedia Foundation’s existing grant programs. Co-led with Brett Buttliere, the project brings together grant opportunity research, grantwriting education, collaborative proposal development, and relationship-building to create a stronger external funding ecosystem for Wikimedia work. A central component is a shared database of relevant funding opportunities, paired with a series of colloquia and virtual working sessions where participants learn how to identify funders, develop project ideas, build partnerships, and navigate the grant lifecycle. The project also serves as a clearinghouse for connecting potential applicants with collaborators and external opportunities, with particular attention to larger, multi-partner, international, and otherwise underutilized funding programs where Wikimedia’s global network can provide an advantage. Ultimately, STRENGTHEN aims to move Wikimedia communities from competing primarily for a limited pool of movement resources toward developing the knowledge, partnerships, and capacity to bring substantially more external resources into the movement.
Learn more about the project on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/STRENGTHEN
Wikimedia-funded projects
- “Strengthening Wikimedia Communities Through Shared External Grantmaking Knowledge and Collaboration.” Wikimedia Community Fund, General Support Fund. With Brett Buttliere. $66,000 USD. Wikimedia Foundation, 2026.
Wikimedia grant page - “The State of Science and Wikimedia: Who Is Doing What, and Who Is Funding It?” Wikimedia Research Fund. With Brett Buttliere, Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen, Iolanda Pensa, and Susanna Mkrtchyan. $49,450 USD. Wikimedia Foundation, 2025.
Wikimedia grant page - “Developing Wikimedia Impact Metrics as a Sociotechnical Solution for Encouraging Funder and Academic Engagement.” Wikimedia Research Fund. With Brett Buttliere and Sage Ross. $36,832.91 USD funded ($42,000 requested). Wikimedia Foundation, 2024.
Wikimedia grant page
Research project page - “Adapting Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Teacher Training Program for the U.S. Context.” Wikimedia Community Fund, Rapid Fund. $4,980 USD. Wikimedia Foundation, 2023.
Wikimedia grant page
Final report - “Examining How Professional Academic Organizations Engage with Wikimedia.” Wikimedia Community Fund, Rapid Fund. With Brett Buttliere. $4,947.61 USD funded ($4,892 requested). Wikimedia Foundation, 2023.
Wikimedia grant page
Final report
NCTE-funded Projects
- “How do Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Faculty Engage Wikipedia? A Scaled Survey of Attitudes and Uses.” CCCC Research Initiative Grant. With Alexandria Lockett. $9,000 USD funded. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), 2018–2019.