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\title{Diversity Statement}
\author{Benjamin Mako Hill}
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Issues of diversity and inequality are deeply important to me --
personally and professionally. I grew up in a large and implausibly
diverse family. Through adoption and chance, I have siblings who are
white, black-, and Asian-American, who are gay and straight, and who
have several different native languages. Having worked as humanitarian
medics in the developing world, my parents found ways for their
children to spend time growing up outside the United States. I
finished high school in an Amharic language school in Ethiopia before
returning to the US for college. I am in an interracial marriage to
someone who grew up outside the US.  Through these experiences, I
understand some of the challenges and benefits of diversity and have
come to appreciate how privileged I am.

In my previous work as a leader and professional in free and open
source software (FOSS) projects and firms, I sought to highlight and
address the lack of diversity -- especially gender diversity -- in
FOSS organizations. On my very first day working on the \emph{Ubuntu
  Project}, I wrote a ``code of conduct'' designed, in large part, to
increase the diversity of our contributor pool. That document has now
been signed by thousands of participants and has been employed in
dozens of other FOSS organizations. On the board and advisory boards
of several non-profits, I have worked to create and support diverse
staffs and memberships.

This commitment to diversity has also shaped my research. In a short
working paper with Aaron Shaw, I describe a method to estimate the
diversity of participant pools in online communities by characterizing
and correcting for self-selection bias in online surveys (we
specifically consider diversity in terms of gender, income, and
education in the context of Wikipedia). In a published paper with Leah
Buechley, I evaluate the effect of a new microcontroller platform
designed to increase diversity in hobbyist electronics communities by
increasing the participation of women and girls. That paper is part of
a larger conversation spanning several disciplines that tries to
understand and address under-representation of women in science,
technology, and math -- an issue I am passionate about. I take pride
in the diversity of my group of coauthors.

In my teaching, I take seriously the challenge of teaching to diverse
audiences. As I explain in my teaching statement, I have found that my
students have an enormous amount to teach me and I strive to learn
from and to adapt both the style and content of my teaching material
to reflect the diversity of my students. This has included mundane but
important steps like learning to lecture more effectively to
non-native English speakers as well as to create content and
syllabuses that are more diverse in the material they include. In
organizing classes, seminars, and lectures, I have found that more
diverse programs are able to attract, and communicate more effectively
to, broad audiences. By bringing in a wide variety of perspectives, a
more diverse program can also support broader, more widely applicable,
and more memorable learning.

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