{"id":68200,"date":"2023-09-27T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/person\/jennryncreativecommons-org\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:23:01","slug":"jennryncreativecommons-org","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/person\/jennryncreativecommons-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennryn Wetzler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recognized as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/awards.oeglobal.org\/awards\/2023\/catalyst\/jennryn-wetzler\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catalyst in Open Education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Jennryn Wetzler oversees Creative Commons training programs, including the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/certificates.creativecommons.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creative Commons Certificate program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which has served over 65 countries. Jennryn manages CC&#8217;s Open Education Platform, a community group of open education advocates around the world. She also manages CC&#8217;s Open Journalism efforts, and consulting work. Jennryn enjoys focusing on projects that increase equitable access to information, believing that journalism and education are pillars of any democracy, and essential human rights. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to Creative Commons, Jennryn worked at the U.S. Department of State, engaging in public diplomacy strategy and programming for nearly 300 U.S. Embassies and Consulates. She has a Masters in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs from American University. Jennryn was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, a Boren fellow in Thailand, and a Critical Language Scholar in Egypt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was most influenced by education efforts for homeless children in Thailand, as well as under-resourced farming communities in Niger. Seeing the extreme obstacles learners faced in education impelled Jennryn to work toward opening access to knowledge.\u00a0 Nowadays, Jennryn enjoys time with her kids and husband, and <\/span>feeding her more daring friends cooking experiments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bio\">\n<p><em>Photo credit: Priscilla C. Scott,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":68199,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/68200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}