We want to keep you in the loop of our efforts to make the 2021 information architecture conference more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. This article is a follow on to our action plan posted last month. We ask that you continue to hold us accountable and make suggestions for how we can continuously improve our efforts by emailing us at diversity@theiaconference.com. Ask about your …
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Tell us what you’re expecting from IAC21
Hello, everyone! We, the co-chairs and IAC21 planning committees, are hard at work to create a conference that is engaging, inspiring, inclusive, and accessible. As we assess communication platforms, activities, and other services for next year’s IAC21, we realized we need your help and input in a number of areas. Goals for this survey: Better understand past, recent, and …
Toward a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive IAC21: our action plan
Following up on an article from June 25, 2020, we want to let you know how we’re taking action for the 2021 information architecture conference to be more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We ask that you hold us accountable and make suggestions for how we can continuously improve our efforts. Our action plan Diversify our scholarship criteria Since 2018, the IAC’s Scholarship …
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Toward a More Inclusive IAC
Dear Information Architecture Community, These are increasingly turbulent times. As we, the IAC21 co-chairs, meet to plan next year’s conference, we can’t help but reflect on the current protests and uprisings in the United States in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless other Black lives taken from this world by the police and other forms of …