Marilyn is known for her long-standing contributions to the HCI profession and to SIGCHI. She was a "founding mother" of SIGCHI and the CHI conferences. She was active in all early CHI conferences and served as Chair of CHI 86, industry liaison for CHI '87, and on the Papers committees of various years. She chaired SIGCHI during 2000-2001 and was on the SIGCHI Executive Committee Advisory Board from 1990-1991. Marilyn was the SIGCHI Education Chair for 6 yrs, and is a member of the SIGCHI Curriculum Development Committee. She has also chaired CSCW 92 and ASSETS conferences. Marilyn is a respected researcher and teacher, a member of the faculty at University of Michigan, University of Toronto, Drexel University, New Jersey Institute for Technology (NJIT), and Rutgers, and a visiting professor at the Cambridge Computing lab and the University of Paris at Orsay.