This article is published in the February 2022 issue.

2022 CRA Board of Directors Election Slate; Petition Nominees Sought

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CRA is pleased to announce the 2022 Election Committee’s slate of nominees for the CRA Board:

Academic (3 openings)
Lorrie Cranor (Carnegie Mellon University)*
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
Gillian Hayes (University of California, Irvine)
Penny Rheingans (University of Maine)*
Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota)*

Industry (3 openings)
Valentina Salapura (AMD)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research)*
Wang-Chiew Tan (Meta AI)
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft/University of Washington)*
Ben Zorn (Microsoft)

*Denotes current board members

Petition Nominees Sought for CRA Board of Directors
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 February 28, 2022. Separately, each of the five supporters of the petition must send an e-mail 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:

  • On March 7, 2022, final ballots will be distributed to all CRA department chairs and lab directors. Each will have one vote for each open slot on the board.
  • By March 21, 2022, completed ballots must be returned to CRA.
  • In late-March, the election results will be announced.