Please join us in congratulating Slate and Charlotte on their new roles here! She is also part of the comics community, contributing content such as covering the San Diego Comic Con. She has a big collection dedicated to the super hero in her house, including a big back tattoo piece of a samurai Wonder Woman with a dragon. She is also addicted to comics and her favorite superhero is Wonder Woman (even though she also loves Marvel). She loves to chat and get to know different people. She’s attended a number of festivals and even got to photograph and interview some of her favorite bands. Outside of her passion for data and tech communities, she loves music, especially punk and metal. She has a database technologist certification and experience handling relational databases. She has been a community empowerer in the Brazilian tech community collaborating with tutorial videos, responding to questions over Twitter and email about how to start a career in tech, programming, or data management. She also reads quite a bit, fiction and nonfiction alike, and has a passion for understanding how stories are told.Ĭharlotte is also no stranger to SO, having used the site frequently when she was a student. For fun she spends time playing role-playing games, where she and friends gather around a table building worlds and narratives. She studied physics and math, and continues to self-study both in her free time. After many years as a moderator on Stack Exchange, she’s now excited to join us as a Community Manager.Īt her last job, her focus was in statistics and data science for spaceflight applications. On Puzzling, she was later elected as a full moderator. On Puzzling and Literature, she served as a pro-tempore moderator. She was a founding member of Puzzling, Literature, and Community Building. Slate is quite familiar with the Stack Exchange Network. Here’s a little bit about our newest additions to the team. They will also start getting involved in elections, triaging Meta requests, and other projects that the Ops team are involved with. Slate and Charlotte will eventually oversee tickets that come through the contact us forms network wide. They are joining JNat and Catija on Community Ops and will report to me. Slate and Charlotte have joined us as Associate Community Managers. Her writings have taken her on travels world-wide but her heart and her home are always in Wales.I’m excited to introduce you to the two newest members of the Community team. She is a member of the Learned Society of Wales. She has written over fourteen academic books, notably the edited collection ‘A Tolerant Nation? Ethnic Diversity in a devolved Wales (2003 & 2015) and including an edited text in the Rodopi postcolonial series on her father’s work ‘Denis Williams: A Life in Works’ (2010), She is a Professor Emeritus at Bangor University and holds Honorary fellowships at Wrexham Glyndŵr University, University of South Wales and Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her writings span academic publications, memoir, short fiction, reviews, essays and commentaries. Sugar and Slate is a story of childhood and youth, of Welshness and otherness, of roots and rootlessness, of marriage, connection and disconnection, of going away and of going home.Ĭharlotte Williams discusses her journey as a writer and artist, the influence of growing up mixed-race in a Wales where she had few role models, the search for her identity and a sense of place.Ĭharlotte Williams OBE is a Welsh-Guyanese award-winning author, academic and cultural critic. “If I set out with the idea to document something of my searching as a second-generation black Briton, what began as an account of a journey became an account of a confrontation with myself and with the idea of Wales and Welshness.” Charlotte Williams ‘It is Williams’s Welshness that makes the examination of her mixed-race identity distinctive, but it is the humour, candour and facility of her style that make it exceptional…an engaging and perceptive voice describing an engrossing and particular personal story.’ Gary Younge, The Guardian ‘To be half Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was always to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all.” Charlotte WilliamsĬharlotte Williams, author of Sugar and Slate, Winner of Wales Book of the Year discusses her award-winning book with publisher of the Library of Wales, Dr Richard Davies, in a Penfro meet the writer event.
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