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Service

Community | Care | Contribution | Connection   

I engage in service activities as a volunteer and elected officer within the department, university, local community, and discipline.

Meghalee Das receiving the Kairos Award for Service, with other awardees.jpg
Award citation from Kairos for Meghalee Das .
Meghalee Das volunteering as a global ambassador at Ramirez Elementary School in Lubbock, TX.

University-level roles

  • Member, Awards Committee, James Madison University (JMU)

  • Cohort Member, New Faculty Academy, CFI (JMU)

  • Global Ambassador, International Student Life Cultural Ambassadors Program, Texas Tech University (TTU) (2023 – 2024)

  • President, Society for Technical Communication Student Chapter (TTU) (2021 – 2022)

  • Member, Hiring Committee for Professor of Practice in Technical Communication (TTU) (2021)

  • Graduate Student Representative, Open Rank Professor of Technical Communication & Rhetoric Search Committee (TTU) (2021)

  • Member, First-Year Writing Program Committee (TTU) (2020 – 2021)

  • Judge, First-Year Writing Outstanding Student Awards Committee (TTU) (2020 – 2022)

  • Judge, University Interscholastic League Ready Writing, Regional Meet (TTU) (2019 – 2021)

National Organizations

  • Member-at-large, Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (2024 – Present)

  • Member, Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) Annual Online Conference Committee (2023 – Present)

  • Executive Board At-Large Member, GSOLE (2021 – 2023)

  • Leadership Council Member, Writing Program Administrators-Graduate Organization - WPA-GO (2021 – 2022)

  • Co-Chair, Digital Presence Committee, WPA-GO (2021 – 2022)

Community Service

  • Perform outreach activities to educate K–12 students in Lubbock about global cultures (2023)

  • Donated food and toys to Lubbock Animal Shelter & Adoption Center (2021)

  • Fundraiser and donation of items, Rainbow Room-Community Partners of Lubbock, TX  (2020)

  • Volunteer, South Plains Food Bank, Christmas Box Distribution, Lubbock, TX (2019)

  • Volunteer, Meals on Wheels-The Salvation Army on Thanksgiving, Lubbock, TX (2019 )

  • Volunteer, lunch drive for the homeless, City Team, Oakland, CA (2018)

  • Volunteer, Bobcat Build, community service work in San Marcos, TX (2016 and 2015)

Professional Organization Affiliations

  • ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communication (SIGDOC)

  • Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)

  • Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)'

  • Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE)

  • National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

  • Society for Technical Communication (STC)

Texas Tech University  I  Lubbock I  Meghalee.Das@ttu.edu | Twitter: @ComMeghalee

© 2019 by Meghalee Das - Technical Communication.

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