User:Penny Richards

Userboxes This user received the Editor of the Week award. 1st place winner: Women in Asia: WiR Women in Asia contest, 2020 October winner: Women in Asia: WiR Women in Asia contest, 2020 November third place: Women in Asia: WiR Women in Asia contest, 2020 Participant: Women in Red August 2018 achievements Participant: Women in Red September 2018 achievements 20 new biographies: Women in Red August 2018 achievements 10 new biographies: Women in Red September 2018 achievements This user participated in the #100wikidays challenge. (contribution) This user is a participant in WikiProject Women's History. This user is a participant in WikiProject Disability. NEWS This user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women artists. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women writers. This user participates in the Los Angeles area task force. This user is a member of WikiProject Women scientists. This user is a member of WikiProject Women in Red. This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree. This user contributes to Wikipedia Asian Month. ⋅

Penny L. Richards, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo (2015–2024); review board, Disability Studies Quarterly (beginning 2015); research scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women (1999–2015); president, Disability History Association (2009–2014); one of the founding editors of H-Education (1999–2017) and H-Disability (2001–2017) on H-Net. My degrees are in Geography (BS, 1988, Penn State, and MS, 1990, Wisconsin) and Social Foundations of Education (PhD, 1996, UNC-Chapel Hill). I also earned a North Carolina teaching certificate, now long expired.

At Wikipedia I was an account coordinator for The Wikipedia Library (WP:TWL), 2015 to 2018, and I take care of the Pinterest boards for WikiProject Women in Red. I've worked on two traditional encyclopedias, most recently on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of American Disability History (Facts-on-File 2009).

If you invite me to be part of an editathon, I'll probably participate virtually, if the subject is even slightly interesting to me. I can't attend too many in-person events, but (when we're not in the middle of a global pandemic) I do try to show up at editathons and other Wikipedia events in Los Angeles, especially if they're on weekend afternoons, and especially if I can take the Metro.

Thanks to Shane Landrum for the push to get a real account.

Note: I am not the romance writer.