User:Nkahler74

Natalie at Chautauqua Institution teaching a course on the literature of the suffrage movement

In 2018, Natalie went to the index of the official history book of Hernando County to find information on Lena Culver Hawkins, a woman who served as Mayor of the City of Brooksville in 1928. As a former Mayor of Brooksville herself, Natalie was curious about Lena's administration and focus. But Lena was not in the index, so Natalie began searching the index for other notable local women. None of them were in the book either. So Natalie began a quest to research and document the history of influential women in the community she calls home. In 2020, that led to Women Leading the Way, a walking tour throughout the city of Brooksville featuring 52 women who broke glass ceilings.

In both 2019 and 2020, Natalie taught a course at Chautauqua Institution entitled "How the Literary Arts Advanced the Women's Suffrage Movement." The course traced the development of literature in the US and the UK intended to raise awareness and support and how the rise of the Women Writer's Suffrage League exponentially expanded those efforts. In preparation for that course, she edited and published Votes for Women! by Elizabeth Robins, providing lots of footnotes to assist with references to British events, people, and different word usage.

Natalie was trained in 2021 in the WikiEducation Scholars program to assist in content creation for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, an effort to increase the number of female biographies. Natalie's first subject for the project? Lena Culver Hawkins. She intends to focus her Wikipedia article attention on notable women in Hernando County History and on suffragists not yet honored with a Wikipedia article.

This user is or was a participant in Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists Program.