George Oates joined Stamen Design as art director in 2012. Hailing from Adelaide, South Australia, she has worked in the web since 1996, mostly in design roles. Before Stamen, she led the Open Library project at Internet Archive and was lead designer in the team that created Flickr. Towards the end of her tenure, Ms. Oates created the Flickr Commons program, a way for public institutions to share their photographic holdings on Flickr. A renowned public speaker, she has spoken to a wide variety of crowds internationally 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.