Sandra Ordonez

Ordonez currently serves as Outreach Manager for OpenITP, an organization that supports the community behind FLOSS anti-censorship, anti-surveillance, and humanitarian tech tools. Through her consultation business, Collaborative Nation, she provides organizations with collaborative management, community management, digital strategy and cross-cultural services and trainings. Currently, she is helping Journalism that Matters improve diversity in the newsroom, as well as increase the number of women in technology.

Recipient of the US Latino Award by the Spanish Government and Fundacion Carolina, which included a week to Spain to meet government and private leaders. Maynard Institute named her as one of 30 hispanics to celebrate for Hispanic Heritage Month in 2012. She was also nominated as a SXSW Revolucionaria 2013.

Previously, Ordonez served as Wikipedia's first professional director of communications. She served on the Board of Joomla, one of the top three open source CMSs in the world, and was the director of Girls in Tech New York. A native New Yorker, she is bilingual in Spanish and an avid hiker.