George Oates
George joined Stamen as Art Director in 2012. Hailing from Adelaide, South Australia, she has worked in the web since 1996, mostly around the front-end of things. Before Stamen, George led the Open Library project at Internet Archive, and before that, created the Flickr Commons program after enjoying 4 years as Flickr's lead designer.
A renowned public speaker, George has spoken to a wide variety of crowds around the world about web design, community management, curation and digital humanities. She was appointed a Research Associate position with the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in January of 2011, and recently joined the San Francisco Choral Society.