These are activities and events that I have participated in as a professional to increase awareness of statistics and data science to the larger community, as well as recruit and retain underrepresented students in STEM and graduate education. I choose the word “leadership” instead of “service” because I firmly believe that these activities go above and beyond the typical duties of an educator. The leadership I describe involves power, trust, and fortitude to make an impact in our discipline and in the community.
Recruiter for the Illinois Dept. of Statistics Graduate Program (September 22, 2018)
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- Statfest 2018 Conference https://nhorton.people.amherst.edu/statfest/
- at Amherst College
Invited Session Presenter (June 6, 2018)
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- “Learning from Dr. Martin Luther King: Using text analysis for statistics education and outreach”
- A joint research collaborative with Prof. S. Culpepper and Prof. M. McKee
- Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Conference https://publish.illinois.edu/sldsc2018/
- at Columbia University
Guest Lecturer (March 22, 2018)
- “The Power of Graphics: Making Meaning from Text and Basic Statistics”
- at Albany State University
MLK STAT (Jan-Apr 2018)
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- A joint research collaborative with Prof. S. Culpepper and Prof. M. McKee
- Introducing high school and college students to statistics and data science using Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his works as the general subject of interest
- at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keynote Speaker (October 27, 2017)
- “Some Things No One Told Me About Graduate School”
- Center for Undergraduate Research’s Fall 2017 6th Annual Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium
- at Albany State University