Anita Sarma is an Associate Professor at Oregon State University. Before this she was an Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska, Lincoln; a post-doctoral scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, and a doctoral student at University of California, Irvine. Through this journey her passion has been on helping humans make better software and work together. A primary focus of her research is in facilitating onboarding of newcomers and increasing diversity in open source projects. Overall, Dr. Sarma’s research has resulted in more than 100 peer-reviewed publications an several best paper records and the NSF CAREER award. Her work has been regularly funded through the National Science Foundation and Airforce (AFOSR).