2025 CRA Board of Directors Election Slate; Petition Nominees Sought
By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is pleased to announce the 2025 Election Committee’s slate of candidates for the CRA Board of Directors.
Academic (3 Openings)
- David Ebert (University of Oklahoma)
- Maria Gini* (University of Minnesota)
- Gillian Hayes* (University of California, Irvine)
- Martin Margala (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
- Leen-Kiat Soh (University of Nebraska)
Non-Academic (3 Openings)
- Mark Hill (formerly Microsoft)
- Divesh Srivastava* (AT&T)
- Jeffrey Walz (Acadigm.ai)
- Ben Zorn* (Microsoft Research)
*Denotes current Board Members.
Petition Nominees Sought
CRA also encourages nominations by petition. Petition nominations must be signed by the Designated Voting Representatives of at least five Constituent Member Organizations that are current in dues payment.
A complete nomination package for petition candidates must be submitted here no later than January 21, 2025. Separately, each of the five supporters of the petition must send an email to elections@cra.org simply stating their support for the petition candidate to run for a seat on the CRA Board of Directors.
Questions may be sent to elections@cra.org.
Important Dates and Events
In late January, final ballots will be distributed to all CRA member contacts. Voting will be done by ranked vote. All candidates can be ranked in the ballot.
By February 14, completed ballots must be returned to CRA.
The election results will be announced by the end of February.
