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| 1 | +2025: |
| 2 | +- Awardee: Stephanie Weirich |
| 3 | + Citation: | |
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| 5 | + Over the course of many years, Stephanie Weirich has generously dedicated |
| 6 | + time and energy towards building a better SIGPLAN community, |
| 7 | + through a variety of formal and informal roles. |
| 8 | + She co-founded the highly impactful Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) |
| 9 | + and continues to help the workshop evolve and thrive as it welcomes new generations |
| 10 | + of researchers to the most important events of the SIGPLAN community. |
| 11 | + Stephanie was also one of the founding members of the SIGPLAN CARES committee, |
| 12 | + an important resource for those who may have experienced discrimination or harassment |
| 13 | + in the PL community. She was an early supporter of, and continues to be a dedicated mentor for, |
| 14 | + the SIGPLAN long-term mentoring program. |
| 15 | + It is no coincidence that the program started at ICFP 2020, a conference Stephanie chaired, |
| 16 | + and in which she worked tirelessly to find creative ways to engage with the community despite |
| 17 | + the circumstances, some of which spun off into larger initiatives, like SIGPLAN-M. |
| 18 | + ICFP 2020 was only the second SIGPLAN conference to be held virtually following the onset of the Covid pandemic. |
| 19 | + Running ICFP 2020 required an enormous amount of preparation and organization, |
| 20 | + and it is a testament to the hard work of Stephanie and care that the conference was able to run more or |
| 21 | + less normally and provided crucial structure to subsequent virtual conferences. |
| 22 | + Stephanie has also done a significant amount of what one might call invisible service---impactful community work that |
| 23 | + is often not noticed despite being thoughtful and effective. |
| 24 | + These and other service roles Stephanie has taken on have fundamentally improved the structure of the SIGPLAN community. |
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| 26 | + * Selection committee: Alexandra Silva, Jeff Foster, Michael Greenberg, Dan Grossman, Talia Ringer |
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1 | 28 | 2024: |
2 | 29 | - Awardee: Emery Berger |
3 | 30 | Citation: | |
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