For your program committees, seminar series, panels, etc.
A couple of comments about women and balance:
- As a result of many well-meaning people trying to balance out committees, women get asked to be on committees a lot. It would be good to make it easy for women to say no and, even better, come up with some more globally optimal solution to the fact that while it's important to get women on committees and in front of people so there can be more women eventually, currently there simply aren't enough women to go around.
- Balance should not come at the cost of lower standards. Dropping standards for women (or any other group) introduces explicit bias because you're accepting that women can't be held to the same standards. (We talk a lot about implicit bias, but a lot of the bias that exists is often explicit and comes from things like this.) The right thing to do here is to use lists like this one to increase the pool and to be thoughtful about explicit and fair standards. Making it clear that this is what's happening is helpful so that people aren't assuming that the women and minorities got somewhere because of different standards. (Unfortunately, this happens a lot.)
And for people who are wondering why gender-balanced representation is a big deal, Adrienne Porter Felt has a good post about this.
Please add yourself, or someone who is comfortable being on this list, in alphabetical order. There are no guarantees about the comprehensiveness of this list.
- Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University, USA
- Nada Amin, University of Cambridge, UK
- Kelly Blincoe, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Kuljit Kaur Chahal, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India
- Maria Christakis, MPI-SWS, Germany
- Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS, Germany
- Işil Dillig, University of Texas Austin, USA
- Azadeh Farzan, University of Toronto, Canada
- Philippa Gardner, Imperial College London, UK
- Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University, USA
- Alessandra Gorla, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain
- Mary Hall, University of Utah, USA
- Rashina Hoda, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Maria Jump, Kings College, UK
- Laura Kovács, TU Wien/Chalmers, Austria/Sweden
- Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Chris Martens, North Carolina State University, USA
- Heather Miller, Northeastern University/EPFL, USA/Switzerland
- Nadia Polikarpova, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Roopsha Samanta, Purdue University, USA
- Sharon Shoham Buchbinder, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Alexandra Silva, University College London, UK
- Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Jean Yang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Ciera Jaspan, Google
- Rezwana Karim, Samsung Research America
- Lindsey Kuper, Intel Labs, USA
- Daira Hopwood, Jacaranda Software / Zerocoin Electric Coin Company
- Kathryn McKinley, Google, USA
- Anne Ogborn, SWI-Prolog (works at The Elgin Works and Simularity)
- Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert, ZetaVM
- Malavika Samak, MIT, USA
- Caterina Urban, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Sara Achour, MIT, USA
- Ezgi Cicek, MPI-SWS, Germany
- Leif Andersen, Northeastern University, USA
- Ezgi Cicek, MPI-SWS, Germany
- Ju Gonçalves, Roskilde University, Denmark
- Anna Gommerstadt, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Sylvia Grewe, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
- Jeevana Priya Inala, MIT, USA
- Juliana Alves Pereira, University of Magdeburg, Germany
- Marianna Rapoport, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Talia Ringer, University of Washington, USA
- Rian Shambaugh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Jiasi Shen, MIT, USA
- Emma Tosch, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Katherine Ye, Carnegie Mellon University, USA