Purpose
The purpose of the Community Perspectives and Practice Committee is to serve as an advocacy role to alert ABC members about the benefits from comprehensiveness in membership, participation, perspectives, and thinking. This committee helps ensure that ABC meets the needs of all members and embraces a commitment to multiple perspectives.
Committee Charges
- Organizes a panel discussion/teaching roundtable on teaching perspectives beyond your own for the ABC Annual International Conference.
- Helps ABC leaders and members understand, expand, articulate, apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate ideas and efforts—individually, as teachers and practitioners, and as an organization—related to community perspectives and practice.
- Solicits nominations, reviews applications, and chooses a winner for the Community Perspectives and Practice Award, and ensures the winner is publicized on the ABC website and in the ABC newsletter.
- Crafts a detailed proposal with thoughtful language in which we honor and acknowledge the host communities in which we have our conferences.
- Ensures that ABC meets the needs of all members in the profession.
- Reviews the description, criteria, promotion, and intended impact of the Community Perspectives and Practice Award.
Committee Co-Chairs
Sarah Moore (term expires 12/31/2026)
Committee Members
| Name |
End of 3-Year Term
|
| Daniel Aguirre |
12/31/2028 |
| Kristin Bennett |
12/31/2026 |
| W. Christopher Brown |
12/31/2029 |
| Dacia Charlesworth |
12/31/2028 |
| Xin Chen |
12/31/2028 |
| Nate Eversole |
12/31/2026 |
| Ruby Nancy |
12/31/2029 |
| Angie Planisek |
12/31/2028 |
| Evelyn Plummer |
12/31/2028 |
| Junhua Wang |
12/31/2028 |
[Committee chair can request committee members additions/drops by first logging into ABC and then completing the Committee Update Request Form.]
Membership
Membership on this committee is open to any ABC member in good standing who is interested in promoting the committee’s work.