Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Beth Mynatt from Georgia Tech received the Strong Ally recognition yesterday at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018 in Montréal, Canada.
From the ACM CHI website:
Strong Ally – Recognizes individuals who have leveraged their professional expertise and institutional privilege to be a reliable ally and strategic partner advocating for the rights and full inclusion of people of marginalized identities.
During her acceptance speech, Beth talked about three important things that she has learned.
- Foster impatience. Impatience that drives you to create opportunities for those around you to do the work our community wants and needs to do to create an inclusive future.
- Second, create new framings that provoke these futures. Framings that create new spaces for important questions, new voices and new ways of working together.
- And then, step back. Let go and cultivate how those around you fill in and shape these new terrains. Embrace surprise and never quit learning.
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is an international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. It is a multicultural community from highly diverse backgrounds who together investigate new and creative ways for people to interact.
Congrats, Beth!
