Hosts: Miriam Neptune, Digital Scholarship Librarian; Barbara Polowy, Head of Hillyer Art Library
Hashtag: #SmithWiki2016
Please bring a laptop with you!
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List of articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!
Pearl Yau Toy (Page linked is her profile at the UCSF School of Medicine)
Marilynn Davis, ‘73 (Page linked is an article written on her from Harvard Business)
Barbara Hulley Ackermann ‘48 (First woman mayor of Cambridge)
Joanne Martin ‘68 (First woman to earn tenure at Stanford’s graduate school of business. Much of her work focuses on gender issues. Page linked is her Stanford profile.)
To improve:
Chantal Akerman
Chery Dunye
Thelma Golden ’87
Otelia Cromwell ‘00
Delores Alexander
Dorothy Allison
Xie Xide ‘49
Victoria Chan-Palay ‘65
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ‘02
Simran Sethi ‘92
Farah Pandith ‘90
Thelma Golden ‘87
Maria Maggenti ‘86
Sherry Rehman ‘85
Margaret Edison ‘83
Yolanda King ‘76
Laura Tyson ‘69
Maria Lopez ‘75 (First Latina woman appointment to the MA superior court)