N²Women Board

N²Women continues to be a vibrant community of researchers in the networking and communications fields. To ensure its smooth running, many members contribute their time as volunteers to form the N²Women Board.

The board consists of the following positions:

• Awards co-chair to help track awards our members have received, learn about awards that exist, nominate N²Women members, help our members get elevated status in IEEE, ACM, etc.
• Fellowship co-chair: The responsibilities of the fellowship co-chair are listed as follows:
  –  Design and implement a methodology to solicit applications for the N2Women Young Researcher Fellowships.
  –  Organize a committee to review applications.
  –  Draft and send formal emails to applicants regarding application status (received, accepted, declined).
  –  Create a systematic way to maintain and organize fellowship files, including application materials and decisions, and share this information with the N@Women Board Co-Chairs.
  
• Geo-diversity co-chair: The responsibilities of the geo-diversity co-chair are listed as follows:
  –  Design a geo-diversity program that promotes inclusion and support for women in various geographical regions, especially by contacting local chapters around the world, or regional chapters.
  –  Establish collaborations with local organisations and institutions to enhance the geo-diversity program’s impact.
  –  Implement a feedback mechanism (e.g., surveys through the N2Women website) to assess the effectiveness of the outreach activities and adjust the strategies, if needed.
• Membership co-chair: The responsibilities of the membership co-chair are listed as follows:
  –  Regularly update and verify the membership contact list to ensure that all the registered emails are up to date, and clean any non-active emails
  –  Oversee the management of the ACM email lists, create new ones (if needed), or sunset non-needed ones, in order to ensure that all the members receive important communications.
  –  Develop initiatives to increase member engagement (especially in coordination with the website co-chairs and the social media co-chairs).
  –  Create an onboarding process for new members to familiarise them with N2Women’s goals, resources, and activities via disseminating information-emails through the mailing lists of N2Women.
  
• Mentoring co-chair: The responsibilities of the mentoring co-chair are listed as follows:
  –  Develop a systematic approach to match mentors with mentees based on interests, expertise, and goals.
  –  Organize training or workshops for mentors on effective mentoring techniques and program objectives.
  –  Organize monthly talks “N2Women Excellence Talks” involving the N2Women awardees (stars and rising stars), who will act as mentors to the monthly talks attendees.
  –  Collect and share success stories from the mentoring program to inspire participation and highlight its benefits.
• Social media co-chair: The responsibilities of the social media co-chair are listed as follows:
  –  Develop and maintain a content calendar to plan and schedule regular posts to N2Women’s LinkedIn page.
  –  Maintain N2Women YouTube page by regularly posting videos of N2Women Excellence Talks.
  –  Create engaging content (e.g., graphics, articles, videos) that promotes initiatives, events, and member achievements.
  –  Initiate social media initiatives that align with N2Women’s goals, such as celebrating diversity, showcasing member work, or promoting events, by contacting the rest of the Co-Chairs in other roles to receive content.
  –  Post N2Women initiatives (workshops, events, virtual talks) on social media.
  
• Website co-chair: The responsibilities of the website co-chair are listed as follows:
  –  Regularly update website content to reflect current initiatives, member achievements, and resources, in coordination with the N2Women Board Co-Chairs, Awards Co-Chairs, Fellowship Co-Chairs, Geo-diversity Co-Chairs, and Mentoring Co-Chairs.
  – Collaborate with other co-chairs to ensure that all sections of the website are current and accurately represent N2Women’s activities.
  – Implement search engine optimization strategies to increase the visibility of the N2Women website and attract new members.

• • Dola Saha and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (2024 – )
  • Katia Jaffrès-Runser and Damla Turgut (2019 – 2024)
  • Katia Jaffrès-Runser and Sami Rollins (2016 – 2018)
  • Tracy Camp and Wendi Heinzelman (2006 – 2015)

N²Women Steering Committee
N²Women Workshop Steering Committee