Jocelyn Miyara is the Community Strategy and Engagement Manager at Creative Commons, where she plays a central role in building, nurturing, and coordinating CC’s global community. She leads strategic engagement initiatives, supports grassroots leadership, and fosters inclusive participation across the CC community. Jocelyn also stewards community communications, facilitates international collaboration, and acts as a key bridge between CC and the broader open movement.
Prior to this role, Jocelyn was CC’s Open Culture Manager, supporting the stewardship of open access policies and partnerships in the cultural heritage sector. Before joining CC, she worked at The New York Public Library for over five years—first as a Special Projects Manager in the President’s Office, and later as Program Manager for their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access team. Across her career, Jocelyn has cultivated a passion for equitable policy, collaborative project management, and the free exchange of knowledge and culture.
On Wednesday, 17 January, 2024, at 3:00 pm UTC, CC’s Open Culture Program will be hosting a new webinar in our Open Culture Live series titled “Whose Open Culture? Decolonization, Indigenization, and Restitution.” As we observed a few years ago, there is growing awareness in the open culture movement about issues related to the acquisition, preservation, access, sharing, and reuse of cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples and local communities (including traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions), heritage in the context of colonization, and culturally-sensitive heritage.
On 22 November, we organized a webinar with a group of experts to discuss their unique approaches to reparative metadata practices: considering the ways that harmful histories and terminologies have made their way into collections labeling and categorization practices and finding ways to identify those terms, contextualize them, and/or replace them altogether. Jill Baron, a…
Today we conclude the Open Culture Voices series, which over two years has showcased more than 65 open culture experts and practitioners from around the world. Over these two years we have had the privilege of engaging with remarkable individuals, each bringing their unique insights and stories to our community. Thank you!
From 16 to 18 November, members of the Creative Commons (CC) Open Culture and Learning and Training teams attended GLAM Wiki in Montevideo Uruguay. In this blog post we look back at the event’s highlights from CC’s perspective.
For centuries, cultural heritage institutions have been undertaking the work to document and catalog objects in their collections — sometimes this work suffers from a legacy of colonialism and discrimination in the way their collections are labeled and categorized. Some institutions are working to update these labels with more respectful terminology. Hear more from some of the changemakers working to update labels and metadata with more respectful terminologies during this CC panel.
