Dear all, Please find below a link to the report submitted to ADHO’s Steering Committee about the Communications Team’s activities this past year. Please let me know if you have any questions. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZzPuwXR2jzt85Y4E9oqqMWNX9gRdAO6BO4YXiGTajG... In addition, I’m happy to announce that we have two new communications fellows, Anna-Maria Sichani and Randa El-Khatib. I’ve pasted in a little information about them. They will begin their fellowships next week. Our 2016-17 fellows, Sarah Hackney and Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja, have been a joy to work with. They have represented ADHO with grace and care this past year, and I wish them all the best in their future endeavors. Finally, I and several other Committee Chairs will be stepping down following the 2017 conference. If you or anyone you know would fit well in one of these roles, please do submit a nomination: http://adho.org/announcements/2017/join-adho-steering-committee. All best wishes, Hannah --- Hannah L. Jacobs Multimedia Analyst, Wired! Lab Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University hannah.jacobs@duke.edumailto:hannah.jacobs@duke.edu 919-660-6563 dukewired.org @dukewired fb.com/wiredduke Anna-Maria Sichani Sichani holds a MA in Digital Humanities from University College London, is currently a PhD Research Fellow at King's Digital Laboratory, and is studying Modern Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Ioannina, Greece. She has held a residency at the Cologne Center for e-Humanities and another at Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie. She has work experience with DiXiT and DARIAH-GR. Sichani is active on DHCommons and is a member of EADH. She is fluent in Greek, English, and French, and has basic knowledge of Dutch and working proficiency in Sign Language. Through her various experiences working on international digital humanities research teams, she hopes to bring a new perspective to ADHO's communications and to ensure "inclusive, fair, diverse, engaging access to the community’s resources." Randa El-Khatib El-Khatib received an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut in 2015 where she was a Graduate Research Assistant, contributing to the Visualizing Medieval Places gazetteer and co-organizing the 2015 Digital Humanities Institute in Beirut, the first international DH conference to be held in the Middle East and Arab World. She is currently studying for a PhD in English Literature at the University of Victoria. She is the Special Projects Coordinator for the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab. She has assisted with the coordination of DHSI in recent years El Khatib is fluent in English, Russian, and Arabic. She writes, "These combined [experiences] have exposed me to major digital humanities trends, allowed me to gain a wide perspective on its present status in different parts of the world, and kept me up to date with the rapidly evolving field. I am interested in occupying this position because I would like to be more involved in digital humanities developments globally and to work closer with ADHO directly."