+ Over the course of many years, Stephanie Weirich has generously dedicated time and energy towards building a better SIGPLAN community, through a variety of formal and informal roles. She co-founded the highly impactful Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) and continues to help the workshop evolve and thrive as it welcomes new generations of researchers to the SIGPLAN community's most important events. Stephanie was also one of the founding members of the SIGPLAN CARES committee, an important resource for those who may have experienced discrimination or harassment in the PL community. She was an early supporter of, and continues to be a dedicated mentor for, the SIGPLAN long-term mentoring program. It is no coincidence that the program started at ICFP 2020, a conference Stephanie chaired, and in which she worked tirelessly to find creative ways to engage with the community despite the circumstances, some of which spun off into larger initiatives, like SIGPLAN-M. ICFP 2020 was only the second SIGPLAN conference to be held virtually following the onset of the Covid pandemic. Running ICFP 2020 required an enormous amount of preparation and organization, and it is a testament to Stephanie's hard work and care that the conference was able to run more or less normally and provided crucial structure to subsequent virtual conferences. Stephanie has also done a significant amount of what one might call invisible service---impactful community work that is often not noticed despite being thoughtful and effective. These and other service roles Stephanie has taken on have fundamentally improved the structure of the SIGPLAN community.
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