Shannon Dosemagen

Shannon Dosemagen (she/her) is an environmental and open science leader with more than 15 years of experience building mission-driven organizations at the intersection of environmental governance, technology, and public participation.

Shannon serves as Senior Ecosystem & Collaboration Advisor for Civic Science at the Rita Allen Foundation, and as the Interim Executive Director and President of Code for Science & Society. She previously co-founded and served for a decade as Executive Director of Public Lab (2010–2020), an international community advancing open approaches to environmental monitoring and research. She later founded the Open Environmental Data Project, where she served as Executive Director (2020-2024) and Senior Fellow (2024-2026), working to strengthen the governance, stewardship, and use of environmental and climate data.

Shannon is a co-founder of the Open Science Hardware Foundation, where she continues to serve on the Board of Directors. She has also chaired the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology and the Association for the Advancement of Participatory Sciences. Her work has been recognized through fellowships from the Shuttleworth Foundation, the Claneil Foundation, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and Ashoka.