What We Know and What You Can Do: Learning How to Turn Gender Research into Diversity Action
Speaker Details
Dr. Cohoon works to understand and improve the gender composition of computing. She holds positions as Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) and as Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. Cohoon also serves as a member of the CRA-W Board, with responsibility for coordinating and enhancing project evaluation. Cohoon’s work at NCWIT involves the translation, application, dissemination, and evaluation of research findings about gender, education, technology, organizations, and inequality. Using perspectives and methods from sociology, she also conducts nationwide studies of recruitment and retention in computing at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her results are reported in scholarly journals and an award-winning book, co-edited with William Aspray, from MIT Press, Women and Information Technology, Research on Underrepresentation.
Carla Schlatter Ellis is a Professor Emerita of Computer Science at Duke University. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1979. Before coming to Duke as an associate professor in 1986, she was a member of the Computer Science faculties at the University of Oregon, Eugene, from 1978 to 1980, and at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, from 1980 to 1986. She is currently a member of the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). She previously served on the board of the Computing Research Association (CRA), as co-chair of the Academic Alliance of the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT), as co-chair of CRA-W, and as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computing Systems. Her research interests are in operating systems, mobile/wireless computing, and sustainability as it applies to computing.
Lucy Sanders is CEO and co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and also serves as Executive-in-Residence for the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
She has more than 20 years of experience in industry, having worked in R&D and executive positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Bell Labs, and Avaya Labs, where she specialized in systems-level software and solutions (multi-media communication and customer relationship management.) In 1996, Lucy was awarded the Bell Labs Fellow Award, the highest technical accomplishment bestowed at the company, and she has six patents in the communications technology area.
Lucy serves on several boards, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Board of Trustees at the University of California at Berkeley; the Engineering Advisory Council at the University of Colorado at Boulder; the National Girls Collaborative Project Advisory Board; the Advisory Board for the Women’s College Applied Computing Program at the University of Denver; the ATLAS Advisory Board; and several corporate boards. She is a member of the ACM nominating committee and the ACM-W Advisory Board.
In 2004, Lucy was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Engineering at CU and in 2007, she was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame. Lucy has served as Conference Chair and Program Chair for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, as well as the Information Technology Research and Development Ecosystem Commission for the National Academies. In 2009, she was recognized as a Microsoft Community Partner.
Lucy received her BS and MS in Computer Science from Louisiana State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, respectively.
Dr. Telle Whitney has served as President and CEO of Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology since 2002. Whitney has 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and telecommunications industries. She has held senior technical management positions with Malleable Technologies (now PMC-Sierra) and Actel Corporation, and is a co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
Dr. Whitney served as the ACM Secretary/Treasurer in 2003–2004, and is currently co-chair of the ACM Distinguished Member committee. She was a member of the National Science Foundation CEOSE and CISE advisory committees, and is a co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). She serves on the advisory boards of Caltech’s Information Science and Technology (IST), California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), and Illuminate Ventures.
Telle has received numerous awards including the ACM Distinguished Service Award, the Marie Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award, the Women’s Venture Fund Highest Leaf Award, and the San Jose Business Journal Top100 Women of Influence.
Dr. Whitney received her PhD from Caltech, and her bachelor’s degree at the University of Utah—both in Computer Science.
Telle is a runner, and lives in the Santa Cruz mountains. She makes jewelry in her not so spare time.
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- Joanne McGrath Cohoon, Carla Ellis, Lucy Sanders, and Telle Whitney
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Jeff Running
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