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Final Report

Adrian Coles and David Marker, task force co-chairs, discuss the recommendations on the Practical Significance podcast.

Members of the task force will present recommendations at JSM 2022.
Monday, August 8, 8:30 a.m. - 10:30  a.m. ET.

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The ASA's 2020-2022 Anti-Racism Task Force was charged with following three main tasks:

  • Developing recommendations for ASA infrastructure and policy that will help drive positive cultural change within the ASA and remove structural barriers to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion
  • Developing recommendations that ensure the communications and activities of the association’s groups align with its position on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion
  • Proposing mechanisms for the association to inform the public about how statistics and data science can contribute to—or, if used responsibly, help fight against—racial and ethnic bias in society

Chairs
The co-chairs of the task force were Adrian Coles, who is an associate director of biostatistics at Bristol Myers Squibb and chair of the ASA Committee on Minorities in Statistics, and David A. Marker, who is the former vice chair of the ASA Professional Issues and Visibility Council and former member of the ASA Board of Directors.


2020-2022 Committee
The committee members were Emma Benn, Emily Lynn Butler, Necip Doganaksoy, Samuel Echevarria-Cruz, Portia Exum, Emily Hadley, Susan Halabi, Ofer Harel, Diane Herz, Monica C. Jackson, Elizabeth Mannshardt, Wendy Martinez, Miles Q. Ott, Dooti Roy, Douglas A. Samuelson, Abdus S. Wahed, Erin A. Wiley, David C. Wilson, Jenny Hang Yang and Steve Ziliak.