Staff

Omeka team, 2025: Back row L to R: John Flatness, Matthew McKinley, Ken Albers, Katherine Knowles; Front row L to R: Sharon Leon, Kim Nguyen, Jim Safley, Avianna Miller Back row L to R: John Flatness, Matthew McKinley, Ken Albers, Katherine Knowles; Front row L to R: Sharon Leon, Kim Nguyen, Jim Safley, Avianna Miller; Not pictured: Nelson Amaya and Allana Mayer.

Ken Albers is the Omeka.net and Omeka Services Manager, and also a web developer at Omeka where he works on custom designs work and addons updates.

Nelson Amaya is an Omeka UI/UX developer, where he is responsible for developing new Omeka themes and supporting the design and development of the administrative interfaces.

John Flatness is the Omeka Lead Developer, where he provides direction and oversight to the software development activities across all of the Omeka web publishing platforms.

Katherine Knowles is the Omeka Community Engagement associate, where she is responsible for designing and facilitating outreach and dialogue among Omeka users and the developement and support teams.

Sharon Leon is the Director of Omeka (2012-), and the Chief Operating Officer of Digital Scholar. She has responsibility for overall project vision, oversight of development, interaction with our project partners, testing, and distribution of Omeka.

Allana Mayer is the Omeka Technical Writer, responsible for end-user documentation and engagement.

Matthew McKinley is an Omeka Developer focusing on Omeka S Modules, site building features, and integration with other digital repositories.

Avianna Miller is an Omeka Testing Associate, where she specializes in accessability and usability testing and documentation

Kim Nguyen is the Omeka Lead UI/UX Developer, where she is responsible for the administrative and public user experience for all of the platforms.

Jim Safley is an Omeka Senior Developer and a database/metadata architect, where he concentrates his efforts on architecting and extended the Omeka data models to extend its functionality in innovative ways.

Dani Willcutt is the Omeka Training Specialist, where she is responsible for instructional materials and curriculum for novice to advanced users.

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