Board Member

Join the Whose Knowledge? Board of Directors.
4 virtual Board meetings + 1 in person retreat per year – Global – Closes 13th January 2025

Whose Knowledge? (WK?) is seeking to expand and enrich our Board of Directors by bringing in new members, with lived and learnt experience and expertise from different backgrounds, communities and movements. We are looking for 3-4 committed humans to join our Board, who share our values and dreams, starting in early 2025. This is a unique opportunity to shape and contribute to what governance and accountability mean for a feminist collective that works at the intersections of knowledge and tech justice, across the world.

Whose Knowledge?
Whose Knowledge? is a global and translocal feminist initiative working to center the histories, knowledges, imaginations and leadership of communities marginalized by intersecting structures of historical and ongoing power and privilege. Our focus is on those we call the “minoritized majority” of the world—women, LGBTQI+ communities, Indigenous and caste-oppressed peoples, working-class folks, and communities from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean, and their diasporas.

Our goal: To transform the internet into a knowledge infrastructure that reflects the full richness and textures of human knowledges, languages, and ways of being and doing.
We exist to: Resist and challenge Big Tech (Silicon Valley and other dominant tech spaces) and Big Knowledge (academia, publishing, GLAM or memory institutions); and to reimagine and prototype alternative ways of amplifying our knowledges through feminist, anti-colonial technologies.
We do this by: Working in solidarity and shared leadership with the communities we serve to share their knowledges, build digital tools, and support advocacy for a just, feminist and decolonized internet.

Why Join Our Board?
As a board member, you will support us to make connections between different contexts and struggles, and help us leverage WK? ‘s strengths in a constantly evolving and complex environment. You will have the opportunity to contribute to liberatory presents and futures where tech and knowledge infrastructures reflect equity, justice, and multiple lived expertises. You’ll help ensure sound fiduciary systems while reimagining and practising governance and accountability structures that challenge patriarchal and colonial-capitalist
norms.

Time Commitment: Approximately 10 days annually, including five board meetings (virtual, with one in-person annual gathering).

Location: Primarily remote, with one annual in-person meeting.

Compensation: This is an unremunerated voluntary role, with all expenses related to travel for Board work covered.

Is This You?
We are seeking visionary leaders aligned with our feminist and anti-oppressive politics and our commitment to liberatory knowledge, technology, and social justice. We are currently looking for 3-4 individuals, one of whom will fill the role of Treasurer, who can bring diverse skills and experiences to our board. If any of the criteria below sound like you, please tell us you’re interested!:

● Political alignment with our feminist values and a commitment to a just and liberatory internet through the centering of the knowledges, imaginations and leadership of the minoritized majority of the world.
● Experience in accountability for and with communities and movements, including a background in non-profit governance, human rights, gender justice, or technology justice. We’re especially interested in those who bring transformational perspectives on governance and have experience with alternative structures that challenge traditional governance systems.
● We aspire for our Board to reflect plural and intersectional identities, backgrounds and expertise, particularly in terms of gender, sexuality, age, geography, ability, class and lived experience. Additionally, we seek Board members with experience relevant to Whose Knowledge?’s focus and priorities.
● For our Treasurer role we seek someone with experience related to financial
oversight and fiduciary responsibility (US based 501c3 and UK based CIC).
We are deeply committed to building a board that reflects the richness and complexity of the communities we serve. We believe that a governance and accountability structure enriched by multiple voices and intersectional expertise, leads to more thoughtful, informed, just and liberatory strategies, decisions, and practices.

How to Apply?
Whilst we are an international and multilingual organisation, our operating language is English.
1. Submit Your Application: Please send a cover letter and resume detailing your alignment with Whose Knowledge?’s mission and values, along with your relevant experiences and why you wish to be a board member. Applications should be emailed to [email protected] by 13 January, 2025.
2. Initial Screening: We will review applications, with an emphasis on alignment with our mission, relevant experience, and commitment to our values and principles.
3. Interviews: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to participate in one or more interviews with our team. This is an opportunity for us to learn more about your background, interests, and vision, and for you to get a deeper understanding of Whose Knowledge? and our board’s role.
4. Final Selection: Selected candidates will be offered a position on the board, with orientation and onboarding provided to ensure a smooth transition into the role.
5. Onboarding and Start Date: New board members will join the board in the first quarter of 2025 with onboarding continuing through the second quarter, to build relationships and start our collaborative work.

Join us in creating a just and liberatory internet!