A History PhD candidate at St John's College , Cambridge , I've served as a Center for Public Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School , the (first) Wikimedian-In-Residence, Wikipedia Fellow and Visiting Scholar (Columbia University Libraries & the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 's CGUI Lab) at Columbia , in NY, since August 2018, as I studied Oral History there, and Public Administration at Harvard . I was raised in a multi-generational military family in the Virginia Tidewater ; Gloucester , and attended local schools until university.
I co-founded Disrupt Wikipedia with the Columbia University Libraries and WikiHBCU/DIO at the Washington National Cathedral in DC, where I serve as the inaugural Oral History Fellow. Priors include: social initiative #HackingRacism (incubated at Columbia Business School 's IE@Columbia c/o '17) & producer/journalist (Vice , TriBeCa , Fox , NYT ).
Fall 2018 - Summer 2020: Columbia University , where I'm an Oral History Masters candidate and Research Scholar at the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) 's Computer Graphics User Interface (CGUI) Lab
Launched two new WikiProject s at WikiConference North America 2018 in Ohio at Ohio State University Libraries :
Ma pping Freedom (my Masters thesis ): mapping all of the freedom colonies that resisted Western colonialism to create the original "Resistance" and the initial "safe spaces."
WikiHBCU/DIO - an initiative to establish a Wiki presence at [H] istorically [B] lack [C] olleges, [U] niversities & [D] epartments [I] nstitutions & [O] rganizations throughout the planet to increase the equity, parity and inclusion rates of Wikimedia tools and platforms.
WikiProject Columbia University
Indigenous AmerIndian culture of what is now the New York City campus
Lenape
Columbia University African American and African Diaspora Studies , newly created end of Fall 2018
Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS)
Columbia University Senate
Protests of 1968
Columbia University protests of 1968
university senate
Racism on campus
Fall 2018
Antisemitism : Swastika vandalism of Holocaust scholar Dr. Elizabeth Midlarsky 's Teacher's College office[2] [3] [4]
White Supremacy : Sophomore Physics student Julian von Abele 's on campus racist rant and physical assault of women of color[5]
Racism scholars
Barbara J. Fields , professor of American history, first African-American woman to receive tenure, co-author (with sister Karen E. Fields of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Hamid Dabashi , professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature
Slavery
Columbia and Slavery project[6] [7] [8]
Eric Foner , Columbia History professor leading the project[9] [10] [11]
Wikimedians In Residence
Wikipedia Fellows
WikiProject HBCU/DIO [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [12] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [1] : WikiHBCU/DIO is the Wiki/Open Historical Black Colleges, Universities, Departments, Institutions and Organizations initiative and community of open knowledge & Wiki peers who's goal is to establish a safe space and Wikipedia presence (Fellowship, Residency, Visiting Scholar, etc position) at every "historically" 'black' college, university, department, institution, and organization to share the equitable knowledge and cultural information of these unique and diverse spaces with the world.
WikiProject Data Science
WikiProject Oral History [13]
WikiProject Ivy League
Fall 2018 - present: Columbia University , sponsored by the Wikipedia Education program
Cofounded Columbia's Disrupt Wikipedia initiative: a "team of on-campus Wikimedians using the resources of the academies and its libraries to "disrupt," dismantle and eliminate the gaps in systemic and institutional bias inequality and representation on Wikimedia platforms like Wikipedia, and in other free-culture , open access , open content , open-source software and open-source-software movements ."
Fall 2018 - present: Dual appointments at Columbia University :
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 's Computer Graphics User Interface (CGUI) Lab
Columbia University Libraries incubating
WikiHBCU/DIO , the Wiki Historically Black Colleges & Universities / Departments, Institutions & Organizations initiative
WikiHMCi , the Wiki Historically Marginalized Communities initiative
*stay tuned for the Spring 2020 academic year.
#DisruptWikipedia #3 Transgender Awareness Week WikiThon, Thurs, Nov 14, 2019 (6:30 pm - 9:30 pm), a panel discussion and edit-a-thon at Barnard College 's Milstein Center Digital Humanities Center in Milstein 103: "In honor of Trans Awareness Week, the Digital Humanities Center in collaboration with LGBTQ at Columbia" hosted a wikipedia edit-a-thon to "correct inequities and boost visibility of trans individuals, activists, and organizations on Wikipedia." Barnard 's Wikimedian-In-Residence & Art and Architecture Librarian Meredith Wisner presented a demo on the ins and outs of editing Wikipedia at the start of the event.[16]
#DisruptWikipedia #2 Indigenous peoples WikiThon, Wed, Oct 16 2019 (12p -2pm): a panel discussion and edit-a-thon at Columbia University School of Social Work : "Social Science and Social Work Research Support Librarian Sophie Leveque has collaborated with Columbia student Darold Cuba to found an initiative called #DisruptWikipedia. On October 16, the two took their campaign to the School of Social Work, where they led interested MSW students in an editing session to raise awareness of Wikipedia’s systemic biases. As it was two days after Indigenous Peoples’ Day, students were assigned the task of increasing the visibility of indigenous people on the site. They received instructions in how to create their own Wikipedia accounts and then added links to improve the Wikipedia page dedicated to Native American poet and United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo . The School of Social Work session was one in a monthly series that will continue through the academic year. The series kicked off on September 16 with a panel discussion in Butler Library, featuring Alice Backer and Sherry Antoine of AfroCrowd , a Wikimedia affiliate that addresses the need to close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia, and Merrilee Proffitt, librarian and author of Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge . Next month’s session, to take place on Thursday, November 14, at Barnard College, will focus on Wikipedia entries for transgender people, in honor of Transgender Awareness Week."[17] Barnard 's Wikimedian-In-Residence & Art and Architecture Librarian Meredith Wisner presented a demo on the ins and outs of editing Wikipedia .
#DisruptWikipedia WikiThon series kickoff, Mon Sept 16, 2019 : panel discussion moderated by Columbia University’s Wikipedian-in-Residence, Wikipedia Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Darold Cuba, with special guests Sherry Antoine of AfroCrowd and Merrilee Proffitt who wrote “Leveraging Wikipedia: Connection Communities of Knowledge." It was "a candid discussion of Wikipedia, its failures and its successes and the real problems of representation in the world of Wikipedia. Right now only 9% of Wikipedia editors are cis-women and only 1% are trans-women. The other 90% are men and though we don’t have the statistics on race, anecdotally, the situation isn’t great. Wikipedia doesn’t even track the races of its editors, which has its own baggage. Barnard's Wikipedian-in-Residence, Meredith Wisner, presented on Wikipedia and representation.There is an opportunity for us to make Wikipedia a source worth referencing, but to do that we need to edit. The problem of representation occurs when editing Wikipedia is put on a pedestal, something that only experts do. This isn’t true. Anyone can be a Wikipedia editor and everyone has something valuable to add, that’s the beauty of a platform as open as Wikipedia."[18]
Staff & Wikipedia: How to Edit & Why We Care - A "meet-cute" for your brain. On Thursday, July 25th from 1-5, in Butler Library 203, Columbia & Barnard Wikimedians hosted a seminar to introduce Wikipedia to the university communities "for anyone who wants to learn more about Wikipedia editing, and why library staff are particularly well-suited for contributing."
AGENDA:
1-2 pm: Introduction to Wikipedia presentation and conversation led by Darold Cuba (Wikipedia Fellow, Wikimedian in-Residence, Visiting Scholar), Kimberly Springer (Curator for Oral History , Rare Book & Manuscript Library ) and Sophie Leveque (School of Social Work Research Librarian ).
2-3 pm: Practice interacting with Wikipedia, create accounts, and add citations to subjects we are liaisons for or have knowledge and access to.
3-5 pm on: Create page as a group for Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) .”\
WikiHBCU/DIO presents Weeksville Weekend's #WomensHistoryMonth panel roundtable and Wikipediathon [19] [20] : Weeksville Weekend launches the [inaugural] #WikiHBCU/DIO (Historically Black Colleges, Universities, Departments, Institutions & Organizations) initiative for #WikiWomen’s #WomensHistoryMonth during Imani Shanklin Roberts’ I AM SHE exhibit.<http://www.weeksvillesociety.org/i-am-she-imani-shanklin-roberts-spring-2019 >
Western North Carolina's first ever Oral History Record-and-Edit-a-thon with the 121st anniversary of the Baird-Beard Reunion, University of North Carolina at Asheville , AfroCrowd , and the Asheville-Buncombe County African American Historical Society in Asheville, North Carolina
First ever Wiki Oral Knowledge Record-A-Thon & Edit-A-Thon , with AfroCrowd , Wikitongues , Whose Knowledge?, Wikimedia New York City & LaGuardia Community College , in NY
Race/ism [21] [22] [23]
Racialization [24] [25]
freedom colonies : communities founded by people the world over rejecting Western colonialism ’s white supremacy race/ism by escaping and creating “colonies of freedom ."
maroon colonies
freedom towns /freedom settlements ,
freedmen towns /freedmen settlements /black towns
Category:Freedom Colonies
AfroCROWD 's Oral Knowledge initiative
Western North Carolina's first ever Oral History Record-and-Edit-a-thon with the 121st anniversary of the Baird-Beard Reunion, University of North Carolina at Asheville , AfroCrowd , and the Asheville-Buncombe County African American Historical Society in Asheville, North Carolina
First ever Wiki Oral Knowedge Record-A-Thon & Edit-A-Thon , with AfroCrowd , Wikitongues , Whose Knowledge?, Wikimedia New York City & LaGuardia Community College , in NYCsystemic and institutional bias of the narrative, lens and perspective
Category:White supremacists [26]
Category:White supremacy by country
Category:American white supremacists
Category:White supremacy in North America
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst, New York
Category:White supremacy in the United States
Category:American slave owners
Slavery in the Northern United States
List of slave owners
North Carolina
Zebulon Baird Vance
New York
Long Island
Sylvester family
Sylvester Manor [27] [28]
Alabama
Klepper/Clepper (Clipper) family[29]
Huson/Huston/Houston family[30]
Category:French White Supremacists
Arthur de Gobineau
Category:Populated places established by African Americans
Shankleville, Tx
Shankle-McBride Family
Odom Family
Strahan Family
Perkins Family
Blackdom, NM
Boyer Family
Clipper/Clepper Family
Vado, NM
Boley, Ok
Rock Hill (Asheville), NC [31]
Petersburg (Asheville), NC
Brooklyn (Asheville), NC
Old Shiloh (Asheville), NC [32] [33]
[New] Shiloh (Asheville), NC [34]
"Black" family reunions
Baird Reunion , est. 1897 (Asheville, North Carolina )
Flack-Council-Coleman Reunion , est. 1917 (Asheville, North Carolina )
”Black” Appalachia /Highlanders
Buncombe County, North Carolina
Asheville [35]
Edward W. Pearson Sr.
Weaverville [36]
Slavery in Appalachia [37]
Buncombe County, North Carolina [38]
Asheville [39]
Vance family [40]
Baird (Beard) family
Weaver family
Swain family
Davidson family
Patton family
Woodfin family
The “black” history of Biltmore Estate [41]
"Black" agricultural traditions (black farms )
East Texas
Deep East Texas
Western North Carolina
"Black" confederate pensioners
WikiEarth - documenting the history of every plot of land on earth
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