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File:Small pile of rocks from the White River in Bethel, Vermont.jpg

A photo I took of rocks in Bethel, VT

My pronouns are she/her.

I'm a librarian who lives in Vermont. There is a Wikipedia page about me if you'd like to know more. Feel free to email me. I used to be a member of the Wikimedia Foundation advisory board back when that was a thing and before the whole page was memory-holed. (archived). I am currently Community Manager for the Flickr Foundation.

I am trying to help Wikipedia adjust its unequal treatment of female Wikipedians and Wikipedia articles about women. Want to read about the problem? This paper is a good start: Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia.

ongoing projects

representation

• postal history of African Americans, adding to WP articles, or creating them
• Page creation or improvement for women of color, especially activists: Jewell_Mazique, Tougaloo_Nine, Doris Seale, Bhakti_Ziek
• Mystery people: C. A. McGill, Captain R. L. Miller, Collins
• Women in library history

vermont

• add town links to VT towns (second pass: Cavendish)
• get photos for VT towns, list photos accurately on town page
• Wikiproject Vermont, 251 Club, public libraries in VT

sources

• Project Vermont on Wikipedia
• Center for Rural Studies, A Gazetteer of Vermont Places
• Vermont Place Names: Footprints of History by Esther Munroe Swift which is often cited/quoted in...
• Virtual Vermont's Town Pages
• Threads of Our Time - baseball uniform database

pictures

• Current: adding librarian photos
• Current: C M Bell using People Search
• Adding images from PD sources
• requested images of Vermont
• Requested images of people

sources

• Cleveland Art public domain
• NYPL public domain portraits
• LoC Public Domain Collections: C M Bell
• Florida Memory
• Picryl + research to find source

other

Articles to Write

• All caught up (for now)

Resources to Use

• Collective Biographies of Women

I am proud of my awards

File:Camera Barnstar Hires.png	Der Fotografenorden
	Danke für das Foto des New York Subway Tokens...:-) Joli Tambour (talk) 12:05, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

File:Original Barnstar Hires.png	The Original Barnstar
	Great work on rewriting the article on Leslie Harpold and helping preserve the history of a pioneering woman creator on the web. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:15, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

File:Biography Barnstar 2019.png		The Biography Barnstar
		Thanks for all the new biographies you publish including Paul Littlechief and Ann Cornelisen. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:11, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

File:DC Women Barnstar.png	100 DC Women
	Thank you again for making this amazing award for last year's participants. Looking forward to the contest again in May. Gamaliel (talk) 19:55, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

File:Historical Barnstar Hires.png		The Curator Barnstar
		For your contribution of a photograph to the Charles F. Shoemaker article depicting the former Revenue Cutter Service officer in mufti. Cuprum17 (talk) 16:45, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Barnstar of Diligence Hires.png		The Barnstar of Diligence
		The work on state library associations is a deep dive into library history for which the profession has endless gratitude as will scholars of librarianship, students, and activists fighting for information access. Kmccook (talk) 15:37, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

File:Goddess Barnstar.png		Goddess Barnstar
		Thank you for all your work on Wikipedia improving articles about women and their achievements, particularly with subjects with lesser visibility. Edit(s) like these do more than simple copy-editing – they show readers that articles about women are held to the same standards as other entries. Thank you. Donna Spencertalk-to-me⛅ 18:35, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

my other sites & stuff

• Mine: librarian.net | jessamyn.com & blog | jessamyn.info & booklist
• Socials: mastodon