Featured  Speakers

Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez (she/ella) works at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a Chicana (Rarámuri) who grew up in an activist family, she is deeply committed to the well-being and healing of Indigenous, Black, and Latine/x communities. Prior to academia, she taught high school mathematics to migrant students and students in Title I schools. She focuses on issues of identity and power in mathematics/science, Indigenous futurity and spirituality, political knowledge needed for teaching mathematics, living mathematx, and ethnomathematics. She is a member of the National Academy of Education, an American Educational Research Association Fellow, previous Fulbright Scholar, and has served as a member of the national writing team for the Standards for Mathematics Teacher Preparation, Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE). She created and runs the Workshop on Rehumanizing Mathematics at Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI). Ultimately, she seeks to continue the work of her ancestors and open up new possible relationships between humans, mathematics/science, and lands/waters.