208: Who Tells Your Story? with Janeen Uzzell
November 11th, 2020 · 57 mins 26 secs
About this Episode
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
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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