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Work in Progress
I am in the WikiEdu Climate Finance Biography online course starting July 8th 2024


 * 1) Mia Mottley, PM of Barbados
 * 2) Wikipedia bio lacks information on the Bridgetown Initiative (only mentions earlier “Bridgetown Agenda”)
 * 3) https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1852&context=nejpp
 * 4) https://www.politico.eu/article/cancel-debt-climate-change-barbados-mia-mottley/
 * 5) https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/twenty-five-trailblazing-women-leading-fight-against-climate-change-2023-03-07/

Other people who meet the wikipedia page notability criteria:

Professor Satinder Brar -- I will add her name to the wiki women in red project

Marisa Sterling PEO -- I discovered that she has a page that was essentially a stub - this was an interesting experience in that the un-redirects that I did got reversed even through Ms. Sterling clearly meets the notability guidelines.

Draft page for Penny Reid
Penny Reid is a best-selling author of romance novels. Several of her books have been listed on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller lists. Some have appeared on lists of must-read romances.

Reid's first novel, Neanderthal Seeks Human, was self-published in 2013 after she received many rejections from agents and publishers. Her "smart-romance" novels have received thousands of reviews on the Amazon-owned social network/book cataloging website, Goodreads. In 2022, her series about the Winston Brothers was reported as being planned for a television adaptation. The financial success of the Winston Brothers series allowed her to launch her own publishing imprint, Smartypants Romance, for authors wishing to set their novels within the universes created by her books. Twelve authors wrote in this setting in 2019.

Contents 1	Early writing 2	Community Service and Philanthropy 3	Scientific Community Service and Leadership 4	Honours and awards 5	Selected bibliography 6	References

Early writing career
Reid worked in biotech research at the time of publishing the first Knitting in the City book in 2013.

Community Service and Philanthropy
Reid frequently advises "indie" writers about how to increase their chances of success. "The question Reid receives most often from writers is: How do I know if my book is any good? “This is the wrong question,” she replies. “No book, movie, painting, art in any form is universally loved. The real, important question is: How do I find my audience?"Reid donates the profits of one book a year to charity."she donated the entire first month’s royalties, over $30K, for a novel entitled Kissing Tolstoy, to The Hispanic Federation to benefit victims of Hurricane Maria. This year, she will be donating the proceeds of the next novel in the series, entitled Kissing Galileo."

Publishing Imprint
"Beyond writing, Reid has established an #ownvoices-focused mentorship incubator and publishing imprint. This initiative encourages diversity and provides opportunities for new voices in the romance genre. Through her imprint, Smartypants Romance, Penny Reid has opened up her universe to other authors, thus expanding her market presence and allowing fresh stories to flourish under her brand’s philosophy."

Smartypants romance is the imprint. Books set in the Penny Reid Book Universe are gaining attention on recommended reading lists.

It popped up in a ruling by Judge Alvin Hellerstein in the weird Cocky-gate controversy in which a self-published author tried to trademark the term "Cocky" lol and sent cease and desist letters to other authors The Author's Guild used Reid as an example of a publisher, to counter the argument that the self-pulbished author trying to trademark the word Cocky. "Plaintiffs’ lack of due diligence failed to uncover the stark difference between a publisher and a publicist, i.e., non-party best-selling author Penny Reid is the former, while Defendant Jennifer Watson is the latter (Ms. Watson’s website even states that she provides “publicist and marketing services” and nowhere indicates that she writes or publishes books),” wrote Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York."