Nina Devolder

Lead Program Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation

Los Angeles, California, United States

About

Nordic innovation meets German efficiency, rounded up with American entrepreneurship - that is me in a nutshell. I'm passionate about free knowledge and enabling access to arts & education for all.

Experience

  • Wikimedia Foundation (Full-time · 4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Lead Program Manager, Legal Affairs
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    • Lead Program Manager, Community Resilience & Sustainability
      Jan 2022 - Mar 2026 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      In my role as the Lead Program Manager in the Legal department, I ensure the delivery and benefits of strong programs based on coordination and strategic alignment across Community Resilience & Sustainability (Governance, Trust & Safety and Human Rights). Working with professionals and volunteer contributors around the world, I help to deliver on strategic programs, streamline ongoing workflows, optimize resources, improve collaboration and knowledge sharing, and measurably help to improve our collective impact.

  • Senior Project Coordinator at J. Paul Getty Trust
    Apr 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Project Management for Arches Project www.archesproject.org

  • Assistant Director at Master of Quantitative Economics at UCLA
    Jun 2019 - Dec 2019 · 7 mos

    International Outreach & Engagement

  • Program Coordinator, Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Program at University of California, Los Angeles
    Mar 2017 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Created programming for the $5M grant from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Humanities Division at UCLA.

  • Arts Management Coordinator at Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
    Sep 2015 - Apr 2016 · 8 mos