Announcement - Founding Executive Director and Next All-Community Call
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Announcing our Founding Executive Director: Dorothy Jones-Davis
The Nation of Makers Board of Directors are excited to announce that we have
hired our founding Executive Director. After a thorough process that included
over 40 applicants with diverse backgrounds and a wide range of skills &
experiences, the Board has selected Dorothy Jones-Davis as the founding
Executive Director for Nation of Makers.
Please join us for our next community conference call as we welcome Dorothy,
and hear her thoughts on how she will be working with all of you to build the
Nation of Makers organization.
Date: Wednesday, March 1st
Time: 8:00pm ET to 9:00pm ET
Call-In: (641) 715-0634
Code: 691798
DRAFT AGENDA:
Welcome
Overview of the Executive Director Hiring Process
Introduction & Looking Forward: Dorothy Jones-Davis
Q&A
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Dorothy's Background & Experience
When you meet Dorothy, you very quickly realize she has an immense passion for
the maker movement - and bringing the maker movement to everyone, including
traditionally underserved populations. As with many in the maker community,
Dorothy has seen a positive intersection between her formal education, her
professional goals, and her personal maker passions.
Dorothy's interest and passion for making began when she was a child (see her
Medium post on Why She Makes
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from tinkering with broken electronics with her dad, to learning about the
crafts her ancestors made as members of the Cherokee and Blackfoot Tribes. In
college, her “maker fix” came in the laboratory, as a neuroscientist.
Dorothy received a B.A. in Psychobiology from Wellesley College, and a Ph.D. in
Neuroscience from the University of Michigan. She worked as a scientist in the
Bay Area before moving to Washington, DC, as an AAAS Science & Technology
Policy Fellow in 2012. In this role, she worked at the National Science
Foundation investigating non-”traditional” technologies, policies, practices,
and business models for STEM education. This work led her straight to a formal
involvement in the maker movement, and to her eventual role as a co-founder of
the DC non-profit NationOfMakers.org <http://nationofmakers.org/> (this
organization later transferred name and digital assets to the new national
Nation of Makers non-profit). In this capacity, she served as the co-producer
of the DC Mini Maker Faire, the National Maker Faire, and contributed to the
National Week of Making. While in this capacity, Dorothy collaborated with the
White House Office of Science and Technology policy and also served as a
representative on the Interagency White House Maker Initiative Working Group.
As a scientist by training, in 2014, Dorothy joined the Foundation for the
National Institutes of Health (FNIH) where she created and managed
public-private partnerships in Neuroscience between the NIH, the Food & Drug
Administration, academia, non-profit and advocacy organizations, and industry
partners. In her spare time, she continued to be an active member of the maker
community, co-producing the National Maker Faire and the National Week of
Making, and serving as a member of the Nation of Makers transition group.
Passion for the Maker Movement
Dorothy is a big believer in the power of makers and maker organizations to
change the world. She believes that working together, maker organizations,
large and small, will have a lasting impact on the future of education,
healthcare, manufacturing, design, engineering, science, and more. She
envisions Nation of Makers as a collaborative community, one where
organizations of different types can learn from one another and share best
practices, and where shared engagement fosters the development of long lasting
partnerships that have outcomes that reach farther than any one entity could
accomplish alone. She brings, in addition to her passion and experiences within
the maker movement, her expertise in partnership development, and she aims to
use her diverse skillset to lead the organization to its fullest potential in
partnership with the wealth and diversity of maker organizations, large and
small, rural and urban, that you all represent.
Hiring the Executive Director is a major milestone for the formation of the
Nation of Makers organization. We hope you will join the board in
congratulating Dorothy on her new role, and join us on the next conference call
(info above) to start discussing the next steps for Nation of Makers.
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