Greater Than Code

208: Who Tells Your Story? with Janeen Uzzell


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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.

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            Special Guest: Janeen Uzzell.

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