Morleen Caroline Bortman‘s motto is to “Always leave the world in a better way than you found it”. Morleen is a 58 years old Reference Librarian at a university library in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has an Honours Degree in Library and Information and Information Science. Her passion as a reference librarian is to serve and satisfy her users’ information needs be it physically or electronically. She loves to engage her users to fully understand their information needs.

She joined the Wikipedia Cohort 1 Group in February 2021 and started her journey as a new Wikipedian. She joined the Wiki Loves Women Focus Group in May of that year to put her community on the Wikipedia global map through engaging in various Wikimedia projects and campaigns. Her passion is to make her community better in all possible ways and Wikimedia provides this opportunity in many ways through its many programmes.