Lisa Kaczmarczyk was awarded her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin where her research wove together computer science, science education and psychology. She also holds Masters degrees from the University of Oregon and Northeastern University and a Bachelors Degree from Tufts University. She has worked in technical positions at large technology corporations and small startups. Prior to becoming a full time consultant and business owner, Lisa acted as Principal Investigator on a grant funded by the National Science Foundation. Lisa has taught computer science courses at colleges and universities across the United States and recently held an Adjunct Faculty position in the Computer Science department at Harvey Mudd College.
Lisa Kaczmarczyk receiving award for The Top Ranked SIGCSE Symposium Paper of All Time.
Lisa is Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS), and 2023 Past Chair for the American Evaluation Association Independent Consulting Topical Interest Group (AEA IC-TIG). Previously, Lisa was Program Chair and Co-Chair for the IC-TIG, served several years on the board of UX Speakeasy / IxDA San Diego, and for close to a decade was Associate Editor and quarterly columnist for ACM Inroads Magazine.
Lisa served for eleven years on the the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Education Council. She has served as the United States representative on the International Committee of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), has served on numerous industry and academic conference committees and was the keynote speaker at the 2nd Indiana Women in Computing Conference (InWIC).
Lisa is on the advisory board of Global Tech Women, an organization supporting the personal and professional needs of technical women, and is a Researcher member of the CSforALL Consortium. She supports her local tech community as Co-Organizer of the San Diego affiliate of Papers We Love.
Lisa speaks Spanish quite well and is actively working on being able to hold her own in a French dinner conversation.
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Since computer scientists make decisions every day that have societal context and influence, an understanding of society and computing together should be integrated into computer science education. Showing students what they can do with their computing degree, Computers and Society: Computing for Good uses concrete examples and case studies to highlight the positive work of real computing professionals and organizations from around the world.
Clients
Clients have included:
Purdue University
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
University of California
San Diego
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Olivet Nazarene
University
Stanford University
Bryn Mawr College
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Navajo Technical University
University of Connecticut
Claremont Graduate University
Arizona State University
University of
Washington
Broward County Florida Public Schools
California State University San Marcos
University of Texas
El Paso
San Francisco State
University
