David Corliss offers tips to help Data for Good practitioners get the most out of the Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, DC.

Middleton took on the role of chair of the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Committee in January and has been working to make the statistical community an inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ data scientists and statisticians.

Eleven mentor/mentee pairs were matched through the Government Statistics Section mentoring program. The mentoring committee is working with participants to produce a roundtable event to cycle the program in sync with the 2021–2022 academic year.

The Government Statistics Section is looking for participants to be mentors or mentees. You don’t even have to belong to the section to participate.

The diversity mentoring program is designed to promote the statistics profession among under-represented minority populations in the United States.

The ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy and the Section on Statistics and the Environment sent four statisticians to the eighth annual Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill at the end of January. As reported last year, participants again noted the changing tone of climate change discussions in many offices.

The ASA Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality has tips to keep your data safe online.

A new ASA committee aims to ensure statisticians are represented on boards and in external awards.

Nominate a government statistician for ASA Fellow.

The Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee invites all JSM 2016 poster contributors to compete for a policy applications prize in its fifth Statistical Significance competition.