 Hi, my name is Ken Fleischman. I'm a professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, the UT Austin iSchool. And here to present today about our PUN Second Network Challenge grant, the PUN Social Justice Informatics Faculty Fellows Program. It's a collaboration between the UT Austin School of Information, Houston Toltsin University, the City of Austin, Capacity, Catalyst, and Measure. So the PUN Social Justice Informatics Faculty Fellows Program builds from our first Network Challenge project, Informatics Education 2020, the Public Interest Technology University Network Conference on Undergraduate Informatics Education. And we held this event right before the start of the pandemic on March 3 and 4, 2020. So at the time, we didn't realize how fortunate we were to be able to pull off an in-person event right before that became pretty impractical for quite a while, unfortunately. And we were able to bring together representatives from 30 different universities across the country, as well as from local governments, nonprofits, and even industry. And so it's great to have so many faculty from so many different universities, many of them PUN members, many of them, hopefully, future PUN members. In particular, we had some fabulous presentations from our colleagues at Houston Toltsin University, which is a small liberal arts university here in the City of Austin. It's also the oldest university in the City of Austin, and it's also an HBCU. And so Amanda Massino at Houston Toltsin was collaborating with Paulette Blanc from Measure and Sarah Muhammad from Capacity Catalyst. She did a really excellent work presentation workshop at the conference. And also the City of Austin also did an excellent workshop. We decided let's do a city-wide community of practice connecting local government, nonprofits, and our respective universities. So the goals of the PUN Social Justice Informatics Faculty Fellows Program were to develop the field of social justice informatics. We are now offering in the Utah Austin High School a BSI and BA in informatics, including a concentration in social justice informatics. And we feel that social justice informatics is a growing area of research globally. So informatics is the application of information and technology to solve problems, such as health informatics, for example, trying to make contributions in terms of the nation's health and well-being. In this case, with social justice informatics, we're trying to fight inequities and injustices in society and come up with more just and sustainable solutions using information and technology. So our goal was to develop a city-wide community of practice to connect Houston Toltsin, University of Texas at Austin, the City of Austin, and local nonprofits. So to recruit, we did a broad distribution across Houston Toltsin and University of Texas at Austin as well as the City of Austin and nonprofits, including holding multiple recruitment workshops. We asked applicants to please describe what social justice informatics means to you and the role that you want to play in leveraging information technology to achieving social justice. So our great team of organizers, we had organizers from the UT Austin High School, such as Amelia Acker, Jackie Bailey, Elliott Hauser, Min Kim Lee, Eric Meyer, Lorraine Roy, Natasha Saldana, and Jeffrey Wallach, from nonprofits, from Measure, Paulette Blanc, and from Capacity Catalyst, Sara Muhammad, from the City of Austin, Ted Lehrer, Charles Perma, and Sarah Smith, and I would say most importantly from Houston Toltsin, Amanda Masino, who is really a driving force, especially in the summer projects that we've undertaken and just a wonderful collaborator to get to work with. And so based on our organizing team, we recruited a cohort of fellows from six different schools and colleges here at UT Austin, from four different departments at Houston Toltsin, also from Texas State, as well as from eight different nonprofits here in the City of Austin. So it was awesome to see the range of different organizations in terms of nonprofits, Progress Texas and Emancipat, for example, the range of units. So here at UT Austin in education and nursing and public affairs and rhetoric and writing. And then from Houston Toltsin in computer science in history and mathematics. So a wonderful cohort of fellows that we're fortunate to convene here in the faculty fellows program. So we started off with a virtual seminar. So our external speakers, our opening speaker was the president of Houston Toltsin University, Colette Pierce Burnett. We had representatives from the City of Austin's Equity and Inclusion Program and Digital Inclusion Program. And also we had the CEO of the Austin Urban Technology Movement, Michael Ward, Jr. And we also brainstorming sessions on defining social justice informatics, what it is and what it should be. Designing AI for social justice, how to make sure that AI can be more equitable in its application as well as its design and how it can be used as a tool for achieving social justice. Funding for public interest technology projects and our summer research projects. So our summer research projects focused on the foster care system here in the city of Austin, Texas. The social determinants of health, always an important topic, especially during a global pandemic that has revealed among other things, the systemic inequities and injustices in our healthcare system and many aspects in our society that have led to inequitable and adverse outcomes in the pandemic and that also have been always present and need to be addressed. The social justice informatics data portal and also community-engaged research, which in this case involves students from universities such as University of Texas at Austin and Houston-Tilts University working with local nonprofit partners to engage in research. And so this starts with developing guideposts for effective collaboration. We agreed on a shared values and collaboration strategy, scoped our project idea and developed research proposals. And this led to multiple proposals across Houston-Tilts and University of Texas at Austin. So we're sharing our findings through the Better Tech Workshop that NYU is hosting as part of PIT-UN here at the convening. We're hosting a research celebration and also this has led to research collaborations across Houston-Tilts and UT Austin. So it's fostering collaborations between our respective universities. It's encouraging Houston-Tilts and to apply for PIT-UN membership. It's created a model for university-studied nonprofit collaboration. It's helped to define the field of social justice informatics and it's helped to develop guideposts for social justice informatics research. So our next steps are to submit a joint of HTUT grant proposals. Actually, we've already submitted several. So we'll continue submitting proposals but we're also building a broader framework for collaboration between our universities. So we're really excited we have a group with a vice presidential level of from Houston-Tilts and University of Texas at Austin to explore deeper, longer-term collaborations between our universities. We're collaborating on educational offerings. We're creating a pipeline, for example, from Houston-Tilts and at the undergrad to graduate programs here at UT Austin, such as the masters and PhD programs offered in the iSchool and expanding social justice informatics globally. So thank you very much.