Emily Griffith is an associate research professor in the North Carolina State University Department of Statistics. Here, she shares the story of her involvement with the ASA.

With a record number of 50 submissions to the annual JSM Statistical Significance competition, the ASA Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee (SPAAC) recognized two first-place winners, three second-place winners, and five honorable mentions.

The COPSS Presidents’ Award citation recognized Leek for influential work addressing high-dimensional data; for development of empirical tools for data science as a science with applications to meta-research, reproducibility, and replicability; for scaling (bio)statistics-centered data science education to millions of people worldwide; and for leveraging data science tools, educational technologies, and community partnerships to create economic opportunities in under-served communities.

Intersectionality, which refers to the overlapping nature of multiple oppressions based on one’s identity (e.g., gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, age), continues to present communication challenges in the world of statistics.

The ASA’s publications are vital to the ASA’s mission of promoting the practice and profession of statistics, and editors are at the heart of ensuring our publications continue to be world leaders in statistics research and applications.