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Jocelyn Miyara
Community Strategy and Engagement Manager
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.
Over the past year, Creative Commons communities around the world have continued to show what’s possible when people come together around shared values of openness, collaboration, and care. In 2025 we were focused on gathering feedback on our ongoing preference signals explorations, creating and gathering feedback on new governance frameworks for future implementation, streamlining community communication channels, and transitioning to an open source chat platform for community collaboration.
Creative Commons is making an important change: we are transitioning our community chat from Slack to Zulip. After considering three platforms—Matrix, Discourse, and Zulip—and gathering input from the community, Zulip came out as the clear favorite. We’d like to warmly invite everyone who sees themselves as part of the CC global community to join us on Zulip.
A thriving and connected community is key to building a stronger open movement. That’s why, as part of our 2025–2028 strategic plan, we’re placing community at the center of everything we do. Our vision is clear: a world where communities actively leverage CC’s open infrastructure to share knowledge in the public interest. This year, we’re…
SXSW by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 If you’ve been following along on the blog this year, you’ll know that we’ve been thinking a lot about the future of open, particularly in this age of AI. With our 2025-2028 strategy to guide us, we’ve been louder about a renewed call for reciprocity…
