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Newly Recruited SIGCHI Adjunct Chairs

We’re delighted to announce the results of our second set of open calls, which closed on August 27, 2021. These were for the SIGCHI Executive Committee’s (EC’s) Adjunct Chairs (ACs) for Community Support, Equity, Knowledge Sharing, Partnerships, Sustainability, and Volunteer Support. First, we’d like…

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Open Calls for the SIGCHI Executive Committee

With seven members currently on the new SIGCHI Executive Committee (six elected + one past president), we cannot wait to recruit the rest of our team! First in a series of such efforts are our open calls for the roles…

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Welcoming the new SIGCHI Accessibility Committee

Soraia Prietch, Professor, Federal University of RondonópolisStacy Branham, Assistant Professor, University of California Irvine For the past nine months, the Adjunct Chairs for Accessibility as members of the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) have been working to identify the most pressing…

Equity Talks @SIGCHI

ET#1: Being Global on *MARCH 8 1630 GMT* (Zoom/Sli.do) As the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) nears the end of its current term, we are putting together a series of community-facing roundtable sessions that we’re calling Equity Talks. These will aim to…

Vision for an Accessible SIGCHI

Stacy Branham, Soraia PrietchACM SIGCHI EC Adjunct Chairs of Accessibility See our 2021 End-of-Term Update Across the globe and throughout history, people with disabilities have been excluded from and even harmed by public institutions, including the academy (e.g., ). Within ACM…

#SIGCHI4ALL

We apologize to the R.A.C.E. team for their volunteering experience with SIGCHI. Their post serves as a reminder that we must be purposeful in our anti-racist stance, as well as reflect on the power structures that exist within our institutions…

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