208: Who Tells Your Story? with Janeen Uzzell from Greater Than Code

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208: Who Tells Your Story? with Janeen Uzzell

57 minutes Posted Nov 11, 2020 at 10:00 am.

Janeen’s Superpower: Storytelling

The Wikimedia Foundation

Empowering Communities To Tell Their Stories

Creating a Wikipedia Page

Approaching and Engaging Youth

Staying Connected As An Organization

Remote Working and Fostering/Maintaining Community

Encouraging and Influencing Participation

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

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The Importance of Who Tells Your Story

Accountability

Generalizations Are Harmful

Responsibility

07:56 - The Wikimedia Foundation

Trust and Safety Team

Thriving Movement

Citations

Edit-a-thons

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)

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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