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Beth is a recent graduate of
Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. There, she spent four
years frantically studying and attempting to function
properly on less than four hours of sleep. Beth was an honors double
major in Latin and Computer Science, with a concentration in Peace and
Conflict Studies. Sound intriguing? Well then maybe you'd be
interested in hiring a Computer Scientist who can code in Perl, while
translating Cicero and discussing human rights! Check
out Beth's resume (or, for those who are
postscript-inclined, download it) and give her
a job!
When she is not studying, Beth enjoys a variety of
frivolous activities, including improv comedy, computer games,
and exploring the local Asian-fusion cuisine scene.
She also served as the Computer Science
student representative to the Swarthmore Committee to Design a Unified
Science Center,
and was privileged to be hired as one of the
Swarthmore Computer Science Program's
system administrators. Beth is also interested in the issue of women
in Computer Science. She was fortunate to attend the
2000 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where she spent 3 glorious days
surrounded by over 500 women female Computer Scientists and learned all
sorts of exciting things about both the issue of women in computing and
current Computer Science research. She also had the priviledge
of attending the first-ever
Richard Tapia Symposium
for Diversity in Computing, in Houston, Texas. There, Beth
had the opportunity to attend various lectures and panels
focusing on the issue of minorities in Computer Science.
Beth also actively pursued policies at Swarthmore to increase the number
of women participating in computing at the college. Most recently,
she was responsible for arranging a group for women in Mathematics and
Computer Science.
Beth is an active member of the human rights organization
Amnesty International and acts as an Amnesty
Student Area Coordinater for the student groups in the
Philadelphia area. She strongly believes in Amnesty's cause
and is a strong supporter of the
United Nations and their Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
She encourages you to visit Amnesty's
online home and urges you to consider writing a letter to help
free a prisoner of conscience. Beth recently had the honor of being
awarded an Amnesty International
Patrick Stewart Human Rights Scholarship.
As part of the scholarship, she went to Australia during the summer of 2000
to do indigenous rights work with the
North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service in Darwin,
Northern Territory. There, Beth worked on policy issues focusing on
the unjust effects of the Territory's draconian mandatory sentencing
("3-strikes") laws on the Aboriginal population. Among her projects
with NAALAS, she had the privilege in contributing to a submission to
the United Nations under the First Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on behalf of an Aboriginal
client. The submission argued that that mandatory sentencing had violated
the human rights of the client.
During the
summer of 2001, Beth was privileged to receive a grant to do
research from the Computer Research Association's
Distributed
Mentor Program. Through the program, she had the opportunity to
participate in Computer Science research with Professors
Nancy Amato,
Jennifer Welch and
Jennifer Walter
at Texas A&M University. In the summer of 2002, Beth was fortunate
enough to receive the same grant for a second year in a row and
returned to Texas A&M to continue her work. Beth's
research currently focuses on distributed
algorithms for systems of metamorphic robots. Most recently, the results of
her work were presented at the
2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
In the fall of 2002, Beth will be starting a
Computer Science
Ph.D. program at Brown University,
in Providence, Rhode Island. She resides in Wayne, Mainline
Pennsylvania.
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