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"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." -William James
"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent." -Madeleine Albright

About me

Hello. I am a first-generation American, born in Indiana, grew up in Los Angeles, and now I live in Northern California.

At a glance...

2007, English Wikipedia editor (administrator, 2009)
2014, founder, WikiProject Women Writers
2015, co-founder, with Roger Bamkin, Women in Red
2015, Volunteer of the Year, Wikimedia District of Columbia (WMDC)
2016, Wikimedian of the Year, with Emily Temple-Wood
2016, shortlisted, ITU/UN Women GEM-TECH award
2016-21, WMDC Board member; Vice-president, 2017-2021
2016-21, member Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee; Secretary, 2018; Chair 2020-21
2017-present, Wikimedia Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University, University Libraries' Digital Scholarship Group, Women Writers Project
2017, contractor, Wikimedia Foundation, Gender Diversity Mapping project
2018, knighted by Serbia
2018, member, Wikimedia Foundation, Community Health Working Group
October 23, 2021: Wikimedia Foundation Trustee

My work

New articles created by year:

2007 * 2008 * 2009 * 2010 * 2011 * 2012 * 2013 * 2014 * 2015 * 2016 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2020 * 2021 * 2022

New women's biographies: All * As Visiting Scholar

Conflict of interest statement: I have made 200,000+ edits and I have not been paid for any of them. In 2016, I retired from DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. after 26 years of employment; I have not edited articles regarding the parent organization or subsidiaries. In 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation hired me as a 3-month paid contractor for the Gender Diversity Mapping project.

Presentations, panels, international committees, English Wikipedia projects, training, trainer, awards, grants, barnstars, social media, press, podcasts, videos, and more ...

Disclaimer: Although I am a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account do not necessarily represent the actions or views of the Board or the Foundation unless expressly stated otherwise. For example, edits to articles or uploads of other media are done in my individual, personal capacity unless otherwise stated.