Career
Sue Gardner began her career on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio in 1990 on the program "As It Happens", and worked for more than a decade as a producer, reporter and documentary-maker for CBC Radio current-affairs and for Newsworld International, focusing on pop culture and social issues.In March 2006, she succeeded Claude Galipeau as senior director of the division of 150 new media staff developing CBC.ca, the CBC website and Internet platform.
In May 2007, Gardner resigned from CBC, and shortly thereafter began consulting for the Wikimedia Foundation as a special advisor on operations and governance.
In December 2007, she was hired as the foundation's executive director. Over the next two years, she oversaw growth of the staff including the addition of a fundraising team, and an office move from Tampa to San Francisco.