Service - School of Computing
- Fundraising Committee, Chair/Member -- October 2018 - present
- Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee Chair - July 2019 - present
- First Year Course Coordinator - Nov 2017-present
- Internship Coordinator - Nov 2017 - present
- Undergraduate Committee -- 2008 - present
- Strategic Planning Committee - 2017 - present
- Marketing Committee -- 2008 - 2017
- 50th Anniversary Committee, Chair - October 2018 - 2020
- NSERC USRA Selection Committee 2018
- School of Computing Awards Committee 2018
- Founder & Head of the Women in the School of Computing Group, School of Computing, Queen's University - 2003 - present
- Faculty Advisor - Queen's School of Computing ACM-W Student Chapter -- Spring 2016 - present
- Faculty Advisor -- Queen's/Google igniteCS award -- Summer 2016
External Service & Appointments
- ACM-W Executive Committee; Chair of the ACM-W Committee on Celebrations of Women in Computing, 2015-2020.
- Member of the Diversity and Outreach Committee -- CS-CAN/INFO-CAN - July 2018 - present
- Member of the SIGCSE 2019 International Committee - May 2018 - present
- SIGCSE 2019 Associate Program Chair
- IBM Faculty Fellow - 2006 - 2016
- Program Committee Member for the International Conference of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS) -- 2009 - present
- Advisory Panel -- The Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills (CCICT) -- 2010 - 2011
- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference -- New Investigators Track - Program Committee Member -- 2011
- Founder and Chair, Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing Conference - Kingston, ON - 2010
- Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work and Professional Development Award Committee -- 2006-2007, 2012-present
- Steering Committee - Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing, 2010-present
- IARIA Fellow -- from 2012
- Co-Chair, CSER 2013 Fall Meeting, November 17, 2013. Co-Chaired with Kelly Lyons and Pat Martin
- Program Committee -- CASCON 2014-2016
- IARIA - Women in Science and Technology Board Chair - January 2016 - present
Awards & Recognition
Teaching Awards
- The Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Teaching Award, 2020
- Frank Knox Teaching Award 2017 - Honourable Mention
- Howard Stavley Teaching Award 2017
Outreach Grants
- Google exploreCSR Award, 2021
- Google exploreCSR Award, 2020
- Google igniteCS Grant for Outreach Activities - Faculty Advisor - May 2016
- NSERC Promoscience Award -- jointly held with Mt. Allison University and Trent University, 2006 - 2009
- MITACS Networking Opportunities Support Award, 2010
Best Paper Awards
- Best Paper Award, CASCON 2006
- Best Paper Award, CASCON 2008
- Best Paper Award, ICAS 2010
Service Awards
- Distinguished Service Award, School of Computing, 2015
- Queen's Equity Award, 2011
- Queen's Special Recognition Award, 2007
Media Recognition
- Featured on WinIT Month, NSERC Women in Science and Engineering, Nov 19, 2013.
- Featured on trendietechie.ca blog
- Spark Radio -- CBC -- "Long-term Online Communities" -- aired on CBC Radio, Sept 13, 2013, hosted by Norah Young.
- Spark Radio -- CBC -- “Female Start Ups” - aired on CBC Radio, November 28 and December 1, 2010, hosted by Norah Young.
- Quoted in CBC News "Back to school: Canada lagging in push to teach kids computer coding", Sept 1, 2015
- Interviewed on CBC "All in a Day" Sept 2, 2015 - Computer Science for All?
- CBC Radio Canada International, Sept 4, 2015. Computer Science Not Yet Available to Elementary Students in Canada.
- Making the World Fair and Just - Blog Communications of the ACM blog by Wendy Powley and Gloria Childress-Townsend
- Digital Dreams Empowering Women to Code - featured article in the Queen's Alumni Review, 2017 Issue 2, the Technology Issue.
- Women in Computing Conference Comes Full Circle - Queen's Gazette
- Featured on ACM-W North America Profiles - 2021
Invited Talks
- Speaker: Canadian CIO Association, E-Seminar, ICT Labour Projections in Canada- Challenges and Strategies, January 19th, 2011
- Panelist, Challenges in Automation and Adaptation, International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2011), Venice/Mestre, Italy, May 22-27, 2011.
- Panelist, Open Management Issues for Future Worldwide Clouds: Interoperability, Security, Efficiency, and Reliability, Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2011), Corfu, Greece, June 27-July 1, 2011.
- Panelist, Has social media changed computer science as we know it?, Queen's Graduate Student Computing Society Conference, 2012.
- Speaker: Chic Geeks: Tap Into Girl Power! Association for Computer Studies Educators, 2012 Conference, November 24, 2012, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
- Panelist: Women in Tech, Organized by Queen's Start-up Summit, Queen's University, November 14, 2017
- Speaker: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Matters in STEM. Dean's List With Distinction Reception, Queen's University, November 13, 2018.