Talk:Heidi W. Durrow

Edit requested on October 30
I am requesting an edit of my biography. Here are the statements that are in error: 1. I was born on June 21, 1969 NOT in 1990. 2. I am the daughter of a white Danish immigrant and an African-American man NOT a "Mexican American teen" USA Today: 3. I grew up in part overseas in Turkey, Germany and Denmark until my family settled in Portland, OR in 1980 NOT "grew up on the west coast of the United States, primarily in California where her adoptive parents settled in the Bay Area by her early teens." http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2010/02/fiction_review_the_girl_who_fe.html 4. I majored in English at Stanford and graduated in 1991 with Honors NOT "She double majored in English and Anthropology at Stanford University" http://alumni-law.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=29496 5. I received a M.S. at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1992 NOT "received an M.A. in 2012." http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/system/documents/198/original/08_Summer.pdf 6. I went on to Yale Law School and received my degree in 1995 NOT "in 2015" http://www.law.yale.edu/news/11203.htm 7. I did not receive a Personal Writing Grant for Excellence in Creative Writing in 2006 8. I did not receive a Hispanic Community Award for Academic Excellence, Stanford University 9. The website for Mixed Remixed, Inc. the non-profit arts organization I founded and run is spelled incorrectly. It is "www.mixedremixed.org"

If you are looking for sources to cite the facts listed above please see:

My website: www.heidiwdurrow.com NPR interview: http://www.npr.org/2010/03/02/124244813/reimagining-the-tragic-mulatto New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/06/16/how-fluid-is-racial-identity/identity-race-or-otherwise-is-your-lived-experience New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/arts/mixed-race-writers-and-artists-raise-their-profiles.html?_r=0 The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-exchange-heidi-durrows-mixed-chicks The Oregonian: http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2011/01/ex-portlander_heidi_w_durrow_k.html USA Today: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-02-25-buzzplus25_ST_N.htm Algonquin Books: http://algonquin.com/blog/heidi-durrow-reports-from-the-naacp-image-awards/

See also: Black, White Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity by Lise Funderburg 1995 See also: "Mixed Roots Festival" Ebony Magazine April 2011 See also: Power 100 Ballers, Shotcallers & Who's Got Next, Ebony Magazine Dec./Jan. 2010-2011


 * Tha page has now been reverted to its state before the problematic edits by the (now-blocked) user began. This doesn't make it perfect, it still needs cleaning up, but I take it this addresses the matters of primary concern? Also, it has been put into a status where new users cannot edit it for the next month, to avoid further shenanigans. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:48, 30 October 2015 (UTC)