Welcome To EquiCL!
Broad Interest Group for Equity in ACL
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Goals

Together, we address the imbalances that have risen in our field as a result of systematic exclusion of marginalized communities.

Promoting inclusion

Support efforts of ACL members and groups throughout the world to fulfill scientific and communication goals of the ACL.

Exchanging best practices

Provide ACL members with means of exchanging best practices for equity and inclusion

Supporting meetings and workshops

Contribute to make ACL becoming an organization that every member's value is maximized.

Resources

Here are some resources for our members, affinity groups and D&I chairs.

Constitution

Latest report to ACL

Conference D&I chair starting kit

Please contact our technical officer for access.

Affinity Groups in NLP/AI

Here are some affinity groups that contribute to diversity, equity and inclusion in NLP/AI.
Please contact us if you would like to be added or removed from the list.

Affiliated with EquiCL:
Ethio NLP
Widening NLP
Other affinity groups:
AfricaNLP
AmericasNLP
Arabic NLP
Black in AI
Global South in AI
Indigenous in AI
LatinX in AI
Masakhane
Muslims in ML
North Africans in NLP
Queer in AI
Southeast Asian NLP
Women in ML

Our Executives

Star Trek is about acceptance and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms. --- George Takei (2015).

Zeerak Talat

President

Christine de Kock

Secretary

(Vacant)

Accounting officer

Fatma Elsafoury

Affinity group liaison

Chi-kiu (Jackie) Lo 羅致翹

Technical officer

(Vacant)

Publicity officer

We are continuously looking for passionate members joining our executive board.
If you are interested, please feel free to contact any of us or at exec@equicl.org.