ORGANIZERS & PARTNERS

Colleen Coyle Mathis - As a registered Independent from Pima County, Colleen Coyle Mathis volunteered to serve and was unanimously chosen as chair of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission by the four appointed commissioners in 2011. She will remain in this role until the next chair is selected in 2021 and has shared her experience with other states seeking to adopt independent redistricting as well as at numerous conferences and forums. Colleen earned a master’s degree in environmental management from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Illinois. She is a market development engineer at Caterpillar, an affiliated associate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University and principal at Willet Creek Consulting, LLC, specializing in nonprofit management, communications and business development.

Deborah Hughes Hallett - Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She graduated from Cambridge University in England and has taught at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Her work is on strategies to improve the teaching of mathematics, and she is interested in promoting international cooperation between mathematicians. With Andrew Gleason at Harvard, she organized the Calculus Consortium for Higher Education and started a foundation to promote innovative curriculum and pedagogy. She has served on committees for the National Academy of Sciences and organized three international conferences on the teaching of mathematics. She is a fellow of the American Advancement of Science and the author or coauthor of seven books, which have been translated into several languages. Her work has been recognized by prizes from Harvard University, the University of Arizona, the Association for Women in Mathematics, and the Mathematical Association of America.