Faculty Speakers
[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text el_id=”Catherine-Cronquist-Browning”]Morgan Ames
Assistant Professor of Practice
School of Information
UC Berkeley
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Morgan G. Ames researches the ideological origins of inequality in the technology world, with a focus on utopianism, childhood, and learning. Her book The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child (MIT Press, 2019), winner of the 2020 Best Information Science Book Award, the 2020 Sally Hacker Prize, and the 2021 Computer History Museum Prize, draws on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in Paraguay to explore the cultural history, results, and legacy of the OLPC project — and what it tells us about the many other technology projects that draw on similar utopian ideals. Morgan is an assistant professor of practice in the School of Information and associate director of research for the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches in the Master’s in Data Science (MIDS) program and administers the Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies. She is also affiliated with the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group and the Center for Science, Technology, Society and Policy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”300″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”right” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Catherine Cronquist Browning
Assistant Vice Provost and Chief of Staff
Division of Undergraduate Education
UC Berkeley
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Catherine Cronquist Browning is an educational administrator committed to excellence and equity in higher education. As assistant vice provost and chief of staff in the Division of Undergraduate Education at UC Berkeley, she serves as a senior advisor and thought partner to the vice provost for undergraduate education, manages the VPUE’s immediate office, and works closely with senior staff and academic leaders across the campus, with a focus on key institutional initiatives that span organizational boundaries. Browning has experience across a wide range of student services and academic planning areas, including higher education policy, strategic planning, curriculum management, student advising and wellness, fellowships, academic student employee hiring, diversity and inclusion, and program evaluation. For many years, Browning supported graduate students in the information and data sciences and she is strongly committed to embedding considerations of ethics, social context, and fairness in the teaching of computing and data science. Browning first came to Berkeley in 2005 as a graduate student and holds a Ph.D. in English from UC Berkeley and a Certificate in Student Affairs and Higher Education Administration from UC Berkeley Extension. Previously, Browning was the assistant dean of academic programs, equity, and inclusion for the UC Berkeley School of Information (I School), and oversaw four graduate degree programs in the information and data sciences, strategic planning for equity and inclusion, and student services. Her achievements at the I School include contributing to the development of two new online degree programs, authoring the school’s first Equity & Inclusion strategic plan, founding its DEIBJ working group, and establishing the I School Graduate Scholars fellowship and mentoring program. Browning also served briefly as assistant dean of educational programs and new initiatives for the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. In an earlier role as a teaching consultant in the UC Berkeley Graduate Division, Browning coordinated the How Students Learn initiative, which collected and disseminated research-based teaching and learning practices from UC Berkeley faculty across a wide variety of disciplines.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”283″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”right” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text el_id=”Shawna-Dark”]Shawna Dark
Chief Academic Technology Officer
Assistant Vice Provost
Division of Undergraduate Education
UC Berkeley
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Shawna Dark has worked in higher education for over 20 years as a tenured faculty member, department chair, and now in administration. She currently serves UC Berkeley as the Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Chief Academic Technology Officer. She oversees a unit called Research, Teaching, and Learning. As part of the Division of Undergraduate Education, RTL partners with the campus to inspire, enrich, and innovate Berkeley’s collective practice and pursuit of inclusive teaching and research excellence.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”278″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”right” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text el_id=”Erin-Hartman”]Erin Hartman
Assistant Professor of Political Science
UC Berkeley
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Erin Hartman is an assistant professor of political science at UC Berkeley. Her research sits at the intersection of the social sciences and statistics. Her mission is to create a body of research that bridges these two worlds — with an emphasis on answering causal questions — within which experts from both worlds can have dialogue with one another and foster beneficial collaborations. Her research sits primarily in the field of causal inference and survey design and analysis. Her main research agendas focus on external validity of experiments, falsification testing, and survey weighting.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”288″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”right” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text el_id=”Marti-Hearst”]Marti Hearst
Professor and Interim Dean
School of Information
UC Berkeley
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dr. Marti Hearst is interim dean and a professor in the School of Information and the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. Her primary research interests are user interfaces for search engines, information visualization, natural language processing, and improving MOOCs. She wrote the first book on search user interfaces. Prof. Hearst was named an ACL fellow in 2022, a fellow of the ACM in 2013, a member of the CHI Academy in 2017, and has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, two Google Research Awards, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, four Excellence in Teaching Awards, and has been principal investigator for more than $3.5M in research grants. Prof. Hearst has served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). She has served on the advisory council of NSF’s CISE Directorate, on the web board for CACM, as a member of the usage panel for the American Heritage Dictionary, and on the Edge.org panel of experts. She is on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) and was formerly on the boards of ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Computational Linguistics, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), and IEEE Intelligent Systems. Prof. Hearst received BA, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley, and she was a member of the research staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”281″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”right” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Joyce Shen
WiDS Berkeley Conference Chair
Continuing Lecturer
School of Information, UC Berkeley
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[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text el_id=”Joana-Carrasqueira”]Joana Carrasqueira
Head of Community for Developer Relations, AI & Machine Learning
Joana holds an MBA from IE Business School, a master’s in pharmaceutical sciences and a leadership certificate from UC Berkeley.
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