FPutz (WMF)
Ziski leads the Global Advocacy team's collaborations with volunteers and affiliates around the world to co-design advocacy campaigns and skill-building programmes so that our movement can better protect and promote free knowledge online. Grassroots energy is essential to the movement's policy initiatives, for those most directly impacted best understand their own local context and needs. To this end, she works closely with communications, community growth, and grant initiatives. She has been at the Foundation since 2021, lives in London, and speaks German and English.
Session
This panel session will demystify the landscape of public policy advocacy within our movement. The session will start with a concise overview of key priorities and methods from the Wikimedia Foundation. Affiliates from around the world will supplement this overview with firsthand accounts of their own advocacy work. Attendees will learn the types of issues that Wikimedians champion and the multifaceted methods we employ, as well as key regulatory trends that we need to navigate in order to promote and protect our collective mission.