User:Sumanah

I'm Sumana Harihareswara. I live in New York City, USA.

Currently the main topic I'm working on is current events, community organizing, and electoral politics in New York City and New York State.

I sometimes like to improve coverage of political figures outside of New York, such as Tulsi Gabbard (there was a moment where I was the top English Wikipedia contributor to the page about Gabbard) and Kat Abughazaleh. I created our article about NYC advocacy group Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM); I'm not a DRUM member but have volunteered at a few DRUM events. I also serve on the board of the Otherwise Award Council.

I have a copy of the deleted Isaiah Martin bio - feel free to ask if you want it to work on. I was (slowly) working to get the Hari Kondabolu article to Good Article status -- see User:Sumanah/Hari Kondabolu draftspace -- but you should feel free to take that work on yourself, as it's been ages since I worked on it. And I'm mildly interested in creating an article for Sheryl E. Gordon, an Alabama National Guard leader (Alabama's first female Major General). Sometimes I improve coverage of women in open source software, like Lorinda Cherry and Jane Silber. And I also do bits of cleanup and cite-adding here and there.

I gave the speech "Hospitality, Jerks, and What I Learned" at Wiki Conference USA in 2014.

Homepage and blog: http://www.harihareswara.net
Consulting business: http://changeset.nyc/
Fediverse (Mastodon): https://social.coop/@brainwane
MetaFilter: brainwane
IRC: I'm sumanah on OFTC, GNOME, and Mozilla IRC, which I visit very rarely

I also have a mediawiki.org userpage.

This is my personal account for personal editing; if I edited in my capacity as a Wikimedia Foundation staffer, I was User:Sharihareswara (WMF). (I no longer work at WMF; I worked there from early 2011 till 30 September 2014.)

Although I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account are exclusively in my individual, personal capacity.

This user has publicly declared that she has a conflict of interest regarding these Wikipedia articles:

Desis Rising Up and Moving
Otherwise Award

This user is participating in the WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign. If you are interested in participating, go to this page to sign up!