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-\begin{document}
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-\title{Diversity Statement}
-\author{Benjamin Mako Hill}
-\date{}
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-% \published{\textsc{\textcolor{BrickRed}{This document is an
-% unpublished draft.\\ Please do not distribute or cite without
-% permission.}}}
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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.
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-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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-\end{document}
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