User:LumaNatic

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 [https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2018/WikiHBCU 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).

1. 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
2. Launched two new WikiProjects at WikiConference North America 2018 in Ohio at Ohio State University Libraries:
3. Mapping Freedom (my [http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/freedomcolonies-the-initial-resistance-the-original-safe-spaces?rq=freedom%20colonies Masters] [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50d0a18de4b07abde416ç56e7/t/5cd5c6e38165f5f0238af3bd/1557513956294/OHMA+%23MappingFreedom+presentation-2.pdf thesis]): mapping all of the freedom colonies that resisted Western colonialism to create the original "Resistance" and the initial "safe spaces."
4. 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.
5. WikiProject Columbia University
6. Indigenous AmerIndian culture of what is now the New York City campus
7. Lenape
8. Columbia University African American and African Diaspora Studies, newly created end of Fall 2018
9. Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS)
10. Columbia University Senate
11. Protests of 1968
12. Columbia University protests of 1968
13. university senate
14. Racism on campus
15. Fall 2018
16. Antisemitism: Swastika vandalism of Holocaust scholar Dr. Elizabeth Midlarsky's Teacher's College office{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/nyregion/columbia-swastikas.html|title=Jewish Professor Finds Swastikas Spray-Painted in Office at Columbia|last=Gold|first=Michael|date=2018-11-29|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-12-28|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/holocaust-scholars-office-defaced-with-swastikas-at-columbia-university/|title=Holocaust scholar’s office defaced with swastikas at Columbia University|date=2018-11-29|website=The Daily Dot|language=en|access-date=2018-12-28}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/29/they-got-me-im-afraid-swastikas-spray-painted-jewish-professors-office-columbia/|title='They got me. I'm afraid.': Swastikas spray-painted on a Jewish professor's office at Columbia|last=Stanley-Becker|first=Isaac|date=Nov 29, 2018|work=The Washington Post|access-date=Dec 28, 2018}}
17. White Supremacy: Sophomore Physics student Julian von Abele's on campus racist rant and physical assault of women of color{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/nyregion/columbia-university-racist-student.html|title=‘I Just Love White Men’: White Man Aims Racist Rant at Columbia Students of Color|last=Gold|first=Michael|date=2018-12-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-12-28|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
18. Racism scholars
19. 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
20. Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature
21. Slavery
22. Columbia and Slavery project{{Cite web|url=https://columbiaandslavery.columbia.edu/|title=Columbia University and Slavery|website=columbiaandslavery.columbia.edu|access-date=2018-12-28}}https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/01/24/columbia-university-explores-historical-ties-to-the-slave-trade/?utm_term=.cea0b3f03144https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/arts/columbia-unearths-its-ties-to-slavery.html
23. Eric Foner, Columbia History professor leading the projecthttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/arts/columbia-unearths-its-ties-to-slavery.htmlhttps://www.npr.org/2017/01/24/511468436/columbia-university-releases-report-on-its-historical-ties-to-slavery{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2017/0125/How-closely-was-Columbia-University-tied-to-the-slave-trade|title=How closely was Columbia University tied to the slave trade?|date=2017-01-25|work=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=2019-01-03|issn=0882-7729}}
24. Wikimedians In Residence
25. Wikipedia Fellows
26. WikiProject HBCU/DIO wikipedia: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][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.
27. WikiProject Data Science
28. WikiProject Oral History{{Cite web|url=http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/blog-posts/wikimedia-to-the-rescue-how-wikipedias-crowdsourcing-model-could-catalyze-the-field-of-oral-history|title=Wikimedia to the Rescue? How Wikipedia’s Crowdsourcing Model Could Catalyze the Field of Oral History.|website=Oral History Master of Arts|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-10}}
29. WikiProject Ivy League

1. Fall 2018 - present: Columbia University, sponsored by the Wikipedia Education program
2. 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."

1. Fall 2018 - present: Dual appointments at Columbia University:
2. Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science's Computer Graphics User Interface (CGUI) Lab
3. Columbia University Libraries incubating
4. WikiHBCU/DIO, the Wiki Historically Black Colleges & Universities / Departments, Institutions & Organizations initiative
5. WikiHMCi, the Wiki Historically Marginalized Communities initiative

*stay tuned for the Spring 2020 academic year.

1. [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Columbia_University,_Barnard_College/Disrupt_Wikipedia_(Thurs,_Nov_16,_2019,_6pm_to_9pm)?enroll= #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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.glunis.com/US/New-York/264750705708/Barnard-College-Library|title=Barnard College Library, Milstein Center for Teaching & Learning, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY (2020)|website=www.glunis.com|language=en|access-date=2020-01-12}}
2. [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Columbia_University/Disrupt_Wikipedia_(Wednesday,_October_16,_2019,_12pm_-_2pm)?enroll= #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."{{Cite web|url=https://socialwork.columbia.edu/news/msw-students-join-in-campaign-to-make-wikipedia-more-inclusive/|title=MSW Students Join in Campaign to Make Wikipedia More Inclusive|date=2019-10-31|website=The Columbia School of Social Work|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-12}} Barnard's Wikimedian-In-Residence & Art and Architecture Librarian Meredith Wisner presented a demo on the ins and outs of editing Wikipedia.
3. #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."{{Cite web|url=http://barnarddhcblog.com/dhc-weekly/dhc-weekly-9-18-asking-more-of-wikipedia/|title=DHC Weekly 9/18- Asking more of Wikipedia – Diving into the Digital Age|language=en|access-date=2019-09-25}}
4. 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."
5. AGENDA:
6. 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).
7. 2-3 pm: Practice interacting with Wikipedia, create accounts, and add citations to subjects we are liaisons for or have knowledge and access to.
8. 3-5 pm on: Create page as a group for Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS).”\
9. [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weeksvilleweekend-wikihbcudio-columbia-university-present-womenshistorymonths-panel-and-tickets-2703561425 WikiHBCU/DIO presents Weeksville Weekend's #WomensHistoryMonth panel roundtable and Wikipediathon]{{Cite web|url=https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/weeksville-weekends/2019/3/9/weeksville-weekend-womens-history-month-wikipedia-thon|title=Weeksville Weekend Women’s History Month Wikipedia-thon|website=Weeksville Heritage Center|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/brooklyn-weeksville-womens-history-month-wikipedia/|title=Celebrate Women’s History Month With a Wikipedia-Thon at Weeksville|last=Susan|first=De Vries|date=Mar 7, 2019|website=Brownstoner|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}: 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.
10. 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
11. 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

1. PROJECTS
2. WikiProject Data Science
3. WikiProject Oral History
4. WikiProject HBCU/DIO
5. WikiProject Ivy League
6. WikiProject White Supremacy
7. WikiProject Slavery
8. WikiProject Freedom Colonies
9. ARTICLES
10. Movies about class
11. Apoorv Om
12. JoAnn Haysbert
13. Hampton University Museum
14. William R. Harvey
15. Columbia University African American and African Diaspora Studies
16. Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS)
17. CATEGORIES
18. :Category:African-American university presidents
19. :Category:African-American professors
20. :Category:Ivy League presidents
21. :Category:Women heads of universities and colleges
22. :Category:African-American university administrators
23. :Category:African-American football quarterbacks
24. :Category:African-American Ivy League academics
25. :Category:African-American Ivy League alumni

1. DRAFTS
2. Freedom Colonies
3. Shankle and McBride family

1. Race/ism{{Citation|last=Changing of the Gods|title=The Invention of Whiteness with john a. powell|date=2016-09-10|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOYzr3mupbk|access-date=2018-11-25}}{{Cite journal|date=2016-02-22|title=Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life|url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/102/4/1150/2364245?redirectedFrom=fulltext|journal=Journal of American History|language=en|volume=102|issue=4|pages=1150–1151|doi=10.1093/jahist/jav733|issn=0021-8723}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/making-america-white-again|title=Making America White Again|work=The New Yorker|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en-US}}
2. Racialization{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/making-america-white-again|title=Making America White Again|last=Morrison|first=Toni|date=November 21, 2016|work=The New Yorker|access-date=2018-11-18|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=http://aas.princeton.edu/books/racecraft-the-soul-of-inequality-in-american-life/|title=Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life|date=2018-07-09|work=Princeton African American Studies|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en-US}}
3. freedom colonies: communities founded by people the world over rejecting Western colonialism’s white supremacy race/ism by escaping and creating “colonies of freedom."
4. maroon colonies
5. freedom towns/freedom settlements,
6. freedmen towns/freedmen settlements/black towns
7. Category:Freedom Colonies
8. AfroCROWD's Oral Knowledge initiative
9. 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
10. 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
11. :Category:White supremacists{{Citation|last=UnderstandingRace|title=The Story of Race: A History|date=2009-07-13|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No5ai6LZLFg|access-date=2018-11-25}}
12. :Category:White supremacy by country
13. :Category:American white supremacists
14. :Category:White supremacy in North America
15. Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
16. Amherst College
17. Amherst, Massachusetts
18. Amherst, New York
19. :Category:White supremacy in the United States
20. :Category:American slave owners
21. Slavery in the Northern United States
22. List of slave owners
23. North Carolina
24. Zebulon Baird Vance
25. New York
26. Long Island
27. Sylvester family
28. Sylvester Manor{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/15/the-house-on-shelter-island-the-story-of-a-northern-slave-plantation|title=The House that Slavery Built|last=Ciabattari|first=Jane|date=2013-07-16|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=2018-08-05|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Manor-Three-Centuries-Plantation-Island/dp/0374266298/|title=The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island|last=Griswold|first=Mac|date=2013-07-02|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=9780374266295|edition=1st Edition edition|language=English}}
29. Alabama
30. Klepper/Clepper (Clipper) family{{Cite news|url=https://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2008/08/15/history-of-clepper-family-discussed/|title=History of Clepper family discussed - The Andalusia Star-News|date=2008-08-15|work=The Andalusia Star-News|access-date=2018-08-05|language=en-US}}
31. Huson/Huston/Houston family{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005761518|title=The history of John Huson from North Carolina to Alabama, his Huson/Huston/Houston descendants, and the allied pioneer families of Clepper, Robinson, Deen and Gilmore|last=Wood|first=Margarette Hall|date=1990|publisher=Gateway Press|location=Baltimore}}
32. :Category:French White Supremacists
33. Arthur de Gobineau
34. :Category:Populated places established by African Americans
35. Shankleville, Tx
36. Shankle-McBride Family
37. Odom Family
38. Strahan Family
39. Perkins Family
40. Blackdom, NM
41. Boyer Family
42. Clipper/Clepper Family
43. Vado, NM
44. Boley, Ok
45. Rock Hill (Asheville), NC{{Cite web|url=http://www.shilohnc.org/history-1/|title=History|website=Shiloh Community Association|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-05}}
46. Petersburg (Asheville), NC
47. Brooklyn (Asheville), NC
48. Old Shiloh (Asheville), NC{{Cite web|url=http://www.shilohnc.org/history-1/|title=History|website=Shiloh Community Association|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-05}}{{Cite web|url=http://endeavors.unc.edu/fall2009/more_than_biltmore.php|title=More Than Biltmore {{!}} endeavors|website=endeavors.unc.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-08-05}}
49. [New] Shiloh (Asheville), NC{{Cite web|url=http://www.southashevillecemetery.net/history/|title=History of Cemetery|website=South Asheville Cemetery Association|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-05}}
50. "Black" family reunions
51. Baird Reunion, est. 1897 (Asheville, North Carolina)
52. Flack-Council-Coleman Reunion, est. 1917 (Asheville, North Carolina)
53. ”Black” Appalachia/Highlanders
54. Buncombe County, North Carolina
55. Asheville{{Cite web|url=https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:3cb18a4b-3a75-419b-ba4b-d9f8a483af7f|title=Carolina Digital Repository - Life Beneath The Veneer: The Black Community in Asheville, North Carolina from 1793 to 1900|website=cdr.lib.unc.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-08-05}}
56. Edward W. Pearson Sr.
57. Weaverville{{Cite news|url=https://melibeeglobal.com/blog/2014/10/learning-about-the-african-american-community-in-asheville/|title=Learning about the African American Community in Asheville|date=2014-10-29|work=MelibeeGlobal|access-date=2018-08-05|language=en-US}}
58. Slavery in Appalachia{{Cite news|url=https://mountainx.com/news/new-conference-examines-african-american-history-in-wnc/|title=New conference examines African-American history in WNC|work=Mountain Xpress|access-date=2018-08-05|language=en-US}}
59. Buncombe County, North Carolina{{Cite news|url=https://ashevillejunction.com/retrospective-i-a-primer-on-the-sad-truths-of-slavery-in-asheville-buncombe-county-and-western-north-carolina/|title=Retrospective I: A Primer on the Sad Truths of Slavery in Asheville, Buncombe County and Western North Carolina|date=2015-08-29|work=Asheville Junction: A Blog by David E. Whisnant|access-date=2018-08-05|language=en-US}}
60. Asheville{{Cite web|url=https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:3cb18a4b-3a75-419b-ba4b-d9f8a483af7f|title=Carolina Digital Repository - Life Beneath The Veneer: The Black Community in Asheville, North Carolina from 1793 to 1900|website=cdr.lib.unc.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-08-05}}
61. Vance family{{Cite web|url=http://thereadonwnc.ning.com/forum/topics/vance-monument-and-the-honoring-of-african-american-history|title=Vance Monument and the honoring of African American history|website=thereadonwnc.ning.com|language=en|access-date=2018-08-05}}
62. Baird (Beard) family
63. Weaver family
64. Swain family
65. Davidson family
66. Patton family
67. Woodfin family
68. The “black” history of Biltmore Estate{{Cite news|url=https://blueridgecountry.com/blogs/behind/the-history-channel-club-makes-note-of-biltmore-estate/|title=The History Channel Club Makes Note of Biltmore Estate|last=Long|first=Liz|date=2012-09-13|work=BlueRidgeCountry.com|access-date=2018-08-05|language=en-us}}
69. "Black" agricultural traditions (black farms)
70. East Texas
71. Deep East Texas
72. Western North Carolina
73. "Black" confederate pensioners
74. WikiEarth - documenting the history of every plot of land on earth

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Category:Wikipedians interested in history

Category:Wikipedians in Residence

Category:Wikipedia Visiting Scholars

Category:Wikipedia Visiting Scholars participants

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