User:Gabbiewithanie

Gabbie with an "ie" because Gabbie with a "y" means "excessively or annoyingly talkative" which is just rude.

I am a second-year graduate student in the Masters of Library and Information Sciences program at the University of Washington and a Reference and Instruction Specialist at Odegaard Undergraduate Library. I hold a BA in Communication with a minor in Art and a focus on cinema studies and studio art. I have interned at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and volunteered at the Seattle Art Museum’s Teacher Resource Center.

My newest projects include cleaning up and restructuring the metadata for the arts and social justice website, the Incluseum, as well as creating a digital space for the library advocates and novices to interact with each other to advance public knowledge through community activism. In my spare time, I study the intersections of critical race theory with gender studies, practice Vinyasa yoga, and actively paddleboard. I find great pleasure in learning how normal and mundane things—like salt, sugar, and toothpicks—shape the larger perspective of our history and culture.

You can usually find me experimenting with the different social tools people use to create, share, and disseminate information—hashtags are of current and particular interest and now, so is Wikipedia editing! I hope to contribute to Wikipedia by making it a better starting place for self-learners to access information they can trust.

I will never give up on the Oxford comma.