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New Reshma Saujani infobox photo
Hi everyone. My name's Ashley and I am here to disclose that I work for Girls Who Code and would like to submit the published image of Reshma Suajani from her book Girls Who Code, which I uploaded . I will not edit the article directly and am seeking others' input and assistance in updating the photo in the infobox at the top of the article. AshleyatGirlsWhoCode (talk) 14:53, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much! AshleyatGirlsWhoCode (talk) 16:01, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Summary section
Thank you so much for your help earlier with the article image. Could you possibly help me with this request as well? I propose updating the current Summary section with more current information about Reshma that more clearly focuses on her achievements as the founder of Girls Who Code. I've proposed the below text, which is a matter of fact and based on reputable newspapers and journal sources. Similar founder pages have mentions of prominent awards such as the Fortune 40 Under 40 recognition so I have included Reshma's here. Please review the following:

Reshma Saujani (born November 18, 1975) is an American lawyer, politician and the founder of the award-winning tech organization Girls Who Code, a nonprofit which aims to increase the number of women in computer science. She was previously the Deputy Public Advocate at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate. Saujani was the first Indian-American woman (and the first South Asian American woman) to run for Congress when she ran against Carolyn Maloney for the U.S. House of Representatives seat from New York%27s 14th congressional district. She also ran as a Democratic candidate for New York City Public Advocate in 2013, coming third in the primary. Following the founding of Girls Who Code, Saujani was listed in Fortune magazine’s 40 Under 40 list.

Hi, I'd suggest that you should remove the "award-winning" from the opening sentence as that's very weaselly. I also don't think tech, let alone high tech, is an appropriate description of GWC. "the first Indian-American woman (and the first South Asian American woman)" reads very poorly, should just be South Asian as that's more broad and entails Indian and is what the source says, speaking of, "asiance magazine" looks incredibly sketchy and a better source is probably needed. Also, it's usually called a lede/lead or introduction for the opening paragraph, a summary is a section often found for a plot or synopsis of fiction; I looked for the section in the article to retitle it before I saw what you meant. JesseRafe (talk) 17:38, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi First, thank you very much for your constructive feedback on my draft section and the titling of the section! I have updated the draft in response to your edits, updating the description of GWC to remove "award-winning" and the tech naming, instead drawing from the Girls Who Code page's description of the organization. It also includes a new Yahoo Money citation to replace the Asiance Magazine citation for "first Indian-American woman". Are you able to help me update the lede section with this new edited version? AshleyatGirlsWhoCode (talk) 14:17, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Reshma Saujani (born November 18, 1975) is an American lawyer, politician and the founder of the nonprofit organization organization Girls Who Code, which aims to increase the number of women in computer science and close the gender employment difference in technology. She was previously the Deputy Public Advocate at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate. Saujani was the first Indian-American woman to run for Congress when she ran against Carolyn Maloney for the U.S. House of Representatives seat from New York%27s 14th congressional district. She also ran as a Democratic candidate for New York City Public Advocate in 2013, coming third in the primary. Following the founding of Girls Who Code, Saujani was listed in Fortune magazine’s 40 Under 40 list.

Great! Looks good, I made a few copyedits and added years. There's multiple Deputy PAs, and that source didn't mention what division of the office or her time there. Should be added. JesseRafe (talk) 15:56, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Question on Girls in computer science section naming and proposed content update
first thank you so much for your help on the lede section update! Again I really appreciate your constructive criticism and feedback as I learn to navigate Wikipedia. I am wondering if you might be willing to help us out again, this time with an update to the Girls in computer science subsection? I looked at a few other similar profiles for founders of organizations like Girls Who Code and found that many had full sections dedicated to the organization's founding rather than subsections. I also did not find any precedent for categorizing it under Politics. With this in mind, I have drafted a new full section below that I titled Women's advocacy and Girls Who Code since Reshma has done other work related to Women's advocacy outside of her work for Girls Who Code. Please review the following:

Saujani is the founder of Girls Who Code, which she launched in 2012 after visiting schools while campaigning for Congress and realizing there were few if any girls in computer science classrooms. Saujani was a speaker at the 2016 TED Conference, with her talk focusing on encouraging young girls to take risks and learn to program. She was also featured at the opening session of the 2017 American Library Association Conference, speaking in support of programs targeting girls entering the computer science profession. In February of 2018, Saujani launched a companion podcast of the same name to her book Brave, Not Perfect. Since launch it has featured guests including First Lady Jill Biden, Representative Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez and others. In January of 2021 she ran ads in The New York Times and The Washington Post calling on the Biden administration to support the passage of a “Marshall Plan for Moms” in the form of a resolution introduced by Representative Grace Meng and pass a series of financial relief executive actions benefiting mothers and women in the workforce. Saujani was a member of the “Love Makes a Family Council”, a group of prominent LGBT rights supporters who advocated for the legalization of gestational surrogacy in New York.  Saujani has been working with Nevada Senator, Jacky Rosen on drafting legislation to help encourage legislation states to report data on their gender diversity in technology. This is in effort to help bridge the gender gap in technology.

Do you have suggestions or feedback about this section? I greatly appreciate both your willingness and the community's willingness to consider my submission. Thank you very much! AshleyatGirlsWhoCode (talk) 22:18, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

I can add this with some link fixes and phrasing updates Ethakin (talk) 15:28, 24 May 2021 (UTC) Thank you very much! AshleyatGirlsWhoCode (talk) 18:41, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Legal and Wall Street career section title issue and biographical information update
Hi everyone, Ashley here again with Girls Who Code. We noticed that the standard "Career" section found on most biographies of living persons has been replaced with a section titled "Legal and Wall Street career". This does not follow Wikipedia convention for these sections and we ask that the title of the section be renamed "Career" as is found on most other pages.

We also noticed that the biographical information on the page is slightly out of date, as Reshma now has 2 children. This bio page from the World Bank's website mentions her two children: https://live.worldbank.org/experts/reshma-saujani

Is someone able to assist us with these two edits? Thank you! AshleyatGirlsWhoCode (talk) 18:51, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ Made a career section, and renamed some headings. Do note that what you said above is not fully true, many politicians (or failed politicians) have separate sections for their regular career and their political ones, and they're denoted separately. Such as a singer or athlete who also acts, it's not like one bleeds into the other so their "career" headings are modified to help the reader see that the chronology might restart and overlap rather than attempt to read it straight through from birth to death/current, and rather than mismatch different "careers" in an attempt to stay true to the chronology. JesseRafe (talk) 19:06, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Already done    Mel ma nn   19:14, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

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