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Green sea turtle's face sticking out of water.
Green sea turtle's face sticking out of water.
Name
Sim
Born
Miami
Name in real lifeSam Hafferty
PronounsThey
Country United States
LanguagesEnglish (native), Spanish (intermediate)
Time zoneEastern Time Zone
Current timeNew York: Current time for UTC-4 is 00:30
HandednessRight
Education and employment
OccupationTech Policy Researcher
UniversityNew York University
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
HobbiesNet art, bicycling, performance art
Interests

Privacy rights, decentralization, broadband equity, experimental electronic music, thinkpads

Contact info
Websiteratemypraxis.com
Account statistics
First edit9 June 2023
SignatureRate My Praxis (talk) 13:59, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi there! I'm Sim, a creative technologist, tech policy researcher and budding Wikipedian based in New Jersey. Data privacy, surveillance and decentralization have been at the core of my work thus far though lately I have begun exploring cyber-security, broadband and governance.

First Edits

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I nervously made my first contribution in Summer of 2023, adding mention of the Plank Road Public Shoreline to the Newtown Creek page. I was compelled to do this after visiting the shoreline and enjoying the bizarre placement of it between a Department of Sanitation waste plant and the Western Beef headquarters parking lot; I wanted people to learn about the project and perhaps be compelled to come see it for themselves! That was my lone contribution for over a year until I joined a Wikimedia NYC event on 19 July 2024 at Civic Hall called Wikicurious: Editing Wikipedia for Beginners. It is at this event where I learned more about the principles of Wikipedia, editing standards and even made some edits of my own! Under mentorship of local chapter members I started a history and controversy section to the Citizenship Test page and linked some sources. Going forward I hope to make edits naturally as I encounter them, join edit-a-thons and perhaps add some photographs from my personal archive (mostly those taken around NYC) to Wikimedia Commons!