208: Who Tells Your Story? with Janeen Uzzell

01:42 - Janeen’s Superpower: Storytelling
* The Importance of Who Tells Your Story
* Accountability
* Generalizations Are Harmful
* Responsibility
07:56 - The Wikimedia Foundation (https://wikimediafoundation.org/)
* Trust and Safety Team
* Thriving Movement
11:04 - Empowering Communities To Tell Their Stories
* Citations
* Edit-a-thons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon)
19:53 - Creating a Wikipedia Page
22:07 - Approaching and Engaging Youth
27:10 - Staying Connected As An Organization
* Cultivating Great Leadership
* Mentorship/Sponsorship
* Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem by Paula Williams Madison (https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Samuel-Lowe-Jamaica-Harlem/dp/0062331639)
* Paula’s Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/findingsamlowe/?hl=en)
* Dr. Imani's Instagram (Paula's Daughter) (https://www.instagram.com/doctor.imani/?hl=en)
34:56 - Remote Working and Fostering/Maintaining Community
39:11 - Encouraging and Influencing Participation
47:31 - Janeen’s Move From Working at General Electric (GE) to The Wikimedia Foundation
Reflections:
Chanté: Making differences one edit at a time.
Jamey: The importance of mentorship as something that is empowering.
Rein: When a small system interacts with a larger system, it’s hard to change the larger system without being changed yourself.
Jessica: Greater Than Code as an open conversation.
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01:42 - Janeen’s Superpower: Storytelling

The Importance of Who Tells Your Story
Accountability
Generalizations Are Harmful
Responsibility

07:56 - The Wikimedia Foundation

Trust and Safety Team
Thriving Movement

11:04 - Empowering Communities To Tell Their Stories

Citations
Edit-a-thons

19:53 - Creating a Wikipedia Page

22:07 - Approaching and Engaging Youth

27:10 - Staying Connected As An Organization

Cultivating Great Leadership
Mentorship/Sponsorship

Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem by Paula Williams Madison
Paula’s Instagram
Dr. Imani's Instagram (Paula's Daughter)

34:56 - Remote Working and Fostering/Maintaining Community

39:11 - Encouraging and Influencing Participation

47:31 - Janeen’s Move From Working at General Electric (GE) to The Wikimedia Foundation

Reflections:

Chanté: Making differences one edit at a time.

Jamey: The importance of mentorship as something that is empowering.

Rein: When a small system interacts with a larger system, it’s hard to change the larger system without being changed yourself.

Jessica: Greater Than Code as an open conversation.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode

To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.

Special Guest: Janeen Uzzell.

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