Katie Jacobs Stanton
Encyclopedia
Katie Jacobs Stanton since July 2010 is head of international strategy at Twitter
. In January 2010 she became the Special Adviser to the Office of Innovation at the U.S. Department of State where she made extensive use of Twitter
. Previously she was Barack Obama
's appointee to the newly created position of Director of Citizen Participation. Stanton is a veteran of Google where her work has included Google Moderator
, Google Finance
, and the Open Social initiative. Prior to that, she was a producer for Yahoo! Finance.
She is #56 on Forbe's List of World's Most Powerful Women.
She is a 1991 graduate of Rhodes College and received her Masters Degree in 1995 from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
(SIPA).
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
. In January 2010 she became the Special Adviser to the Office of Innovation at the U.S. Department of State where she made extensive use of Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
. Previously she was Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
's appointee to the newly created position of Director of Citizen Participation. Stanton is a veteran of Google where her work has included Google Moderator
Google Moderator
Google Moderator is a Google service that uses crowdsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions and ideas. It was launched on September 25, 2008. The service allows the management of feedback from a large number of people, who can vote for the top questions that they think should be...
, Google Finance
Google Finance
Google Finance is a website launched on March 21, 2006 by Google. The service features business and enterprise headlines for many corporations including their financial decisions and major news events. Stock information is available, as are Adobe Flash-based stock price charts which contain marks...
, and the Open Social initiative. Prior to that, she was a producer for Yahoo! Finance.
She is #56 on Forbe's List of World's Most Powerful Women.
She is a 1991 graduate of Rhodes College and received her Masters Degree in 1995 from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
School of International and Public Affairs
The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University is one of the most prestigious graduate schools of public policy in the world. Located on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus in the Borough of Manhattan, in New York City, the School has 15,000 graduates in more than 150...
(SIPA).