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.
She is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Community © 2022 by Dunk is licensed under CC BY 2.0 As we’ve been talking about on the blog, we are intentionally seeking ways to reengage with the global community, which will likely entail making changes to the current CC Global Network (CCGN). We recently surveyed the CC global community to help inform next steps. …
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…
Regent Street Looking Towards the Duke of York’s Column, plate twelve from Original Views of London as It Is by Thomas Shotter Boys is marked with CC 1.0 In case you missed it, we recently published our 2025-2028 Strategy which sets the stage for our goals and activities over the next few years. This updated strategy…
Image by Mario Jr. Nicorelli is licensed via CC BY-NC 2.0 Over the past weeks, the CC board and team have been working behind the scenes on our strategy refresh. We are excited to share our progress as we enter the community engagement phase of the refresh and explain how you can contribute to the process.…