I am proposing a grant to fund a Wikipedian in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh to facilitate the transfer of historical content from Pitt's archives, collections and library related to women, regional history, Native Americans of Western Pennsylvania, immigrants, labor, and other topics. Though at this time I am a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, I have responded to requests by the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the YWCA of Pittsburgh to provide training. As a volunteer contributor, I am unable to respond to all requests. There are more requests for training that I have time to do. 

The grant proposal is here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Engaging_Academic_Archivists,_Librarians_and_Students_to_Address_the_Historical_Gender_and_Racial_Gap_of_Western_Pennsylvania_through_the_University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System#Endorsements

Part of the grant-making process requires notification of those who would like to support this project.

I am the potential grantee and believe that being in the position of Wikipedian-in-Residence will create a significant improvement to the topics listed above. My editing history already demonstrates my commitment to creating content on topics related to women. I understand that I will not be creating content as a Wikipedian-in-Residence. Instead, I would be training new and experienced contributors. I am experienced in training new contributors in adding content to other language wikipedias, Wikidata, Wikiquote, Commons and others. This will benefit new contributors since their training does not have to be limited to the English Wikipedia.

I know the potential for the improvement and addition of content is great. Not only is your support requested but I would be very grateful to any other members of library efforts and projects who can provide advice. Thank you for your consideration.