Holly brings three decades of invaluable experience in nonprofit management, having served as a consultant, director of development, executive director, and board member for numerous organizations. Notably, she founded the nonprofit organization Artists United, dedicated to empowering individual artists and fostering collaboration across artistic disciplines for the collective good. Additionally, Holly served as the Executive Director of the BioBricks Foundation, an international, open-source biotechnology nonprofit.
The rest of her merits seem reasonable for the position. The post also says she has a masters degree in education and a bachelors degree in English from Harvard. I have to assume that the GNOME Foundation put a lot of thought into this based on interviews and investigation that we’re not publicly privy to, and it’s not as simple as “GNOME is stupid and they hired a crackpot shaman off the street haha!” People can do great things at their job without adhering to your specific worldview in their personal life.
From the link posted elsewhere in this thread on the Gnome website.
https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/10/17/foundation-welcomes-new-executive-director/
The rest of her merits seem reasonable for the position. The post also says she has a masters degree in education and a bachelors degree in English from Harvard. I have to assume that the GNOME Foundation put a lot of thought into this based on interviews and investigation that we’re not publicly privy to, and it’s not as simple as “GNOME is stupid and they hired a crackpot shaman off the street haha!” People can do great things at their job without adhering to your specific worldview in their personal life.