Mentorship & Service

Grants & Service & Mentoring

• Scientific Organizing Committee: The Canadian Mathematical Society Meeting, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. May 30 -- June 3, 2024. 

• Co-Organizer: JMM SLMATH (MSRI) Special Session on African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Working Groups (ADJOINT), San Francisco, CA. January 2024.

•  Research Mentor: Michigan Research Experience for Graduates (MREG), "Geometric Structures and Curves on Surfaces." Ann Arbor, MI July 23 -- August 2, 2023.

• Co-Founder: Exp(MMLL)@BC,  Experimental Mathematics & Machine Learning Laboratory at Boston College, Summer 2023.

•  Research Mentor: Exp(MMLL)@BC, Experimental Mathematics and Machine Learning Laboratory:

  1. (Summer 2023) “Transcendental Treasure: The Bejewled Geometry of Limit Sets of Kleinian Groups.” Boston College.

  2. (Summer 2022) “Conics: Unified Glimpses of Algebraic Geometry.” Boston College. 

•  Co-PI, NSA grant “2022 African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Working Groups.”

•  Co-Organizer: PUNDiT “Practicum for Undergraduates in Number Theory,” IPAM, October 2021.

• Co-Organizer: “Mathematics and Racial Justice,” MSRI, June 2021.

•  Program Director: MSRI-ADJOINT, African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Workshop, 2019-Present.

•  Co-Organizer: JMM AMS-NAM Joint Special Session in Honor of James Donaldson, Washington, DC 2021.

• Co-Organizer: Geometry Labs United seminar, Fall 2020– Spring 2022.

•  Graduate Mentor: National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in Mathematical Studies, 2017–Present.

• Research Mentor: UROP, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, University of Michigan, 2017–2018.

• Co-Founder: Log(M), Laboratory of Geometry at Michigan, Fall 2016.

• Research Mentor: Log(M), Laboratory of Geometry at Michigan:    

1. (Winter 2020) “Legendrian knots associated to certain plane curves,” w/ P. Boland, U. Michigan.

2. (Summer 2019) “Children’s drawings & the Riemann-Hilbert problem.” U. Michigan. 

3. (Summer 2019) “The Uniformization theorem.” U. Michigan.

4.  (Fall 2017) “Geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces,” w/ P. Boland, U. Michigan.

5. (Summer 2017) “Random walks on a once punctured torus group,”w/ H.Bray. U.Michigan.

6.  (Winter 2017) “Visualizing convex projective surfaces,” w/ A. Lukyanenko, U. Michigan.

• Lead Volunteer: Wolverine Pathways, U. Michigan, 2016–2020.

• Lead Volunteer: FEMMES Capstone, “Females Excelling in Math, Engineering, and the Sciences.” U. Michigan, 2016–19.

•  Co-Chair: NAM Editorial Board “Mathematicians of the African Diaspora,” 2015-16.

• Chair: Local Organizing Committee, “GEAR Network Retreat,” U.Maryland College Park, 2014.

• Local Organizing Committee: “Geometry Festival,” U.Maryland College Park, 2013.