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As Director of Information Technology Initiatives, Linda Akli is responsible for facilitating collaborative IT projects supporting research computing and SURA-led programs. Joining SURA in 2007 to provide applications and outreach for SURAgrid and other IT project, Ms. Akli has developed workforce development and education programs for national research cyberinfrastructure including TeraGrid and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). She is frequently call upon to serve in advisory capacity, and currently serves on the External Advisory Board of the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology Cyber Platform (NCN-CP) which operates nanoHUB.org, the White House Initiative for Historically Black Colleges and Universities Broadband and Smart HBCU cluster, and the ACM SIGHPC Education Chapter Outreach Committee. She is author and co-author of articles and papers on diversity and inclusion in High Performance Computing, workforce development, and education. Ms. Akli graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and minors in Afro-American studies and management sciences. She completed graduate course work in Engineering Administration at George Washington University; and during her tenure at AT&T Long Lines and the MITRE Corporation completed several management development training programs.