Serving as the program chair for an ASA meeting can seem like a mammoth undertaking, but Nicole Lazar, chair of the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings Program Committee, and Claire Bowen, who heads up the organizing team for the 2022 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics, describe the volunteer role as, “exciting, humbling, and a privilege.” Practical Significance hosts Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein know the vital role all member volunteers play in the sustained success of an association and talk to Nicole and Claire about how they manage the responsibility ...

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