Meet the Board!

The History of Michigan Women in Mathematics

​Our Past Executive Board Members

Where are they now?

The women on our executive board majored in a variety of math-related fields, and have gone in many different directions! Our past WiM Executive Board have found success in many areas:

• Hanna Astephan, our first president, is currently a math graduate student at the University of Utah.

• Rebecca Gleit went on to get her master's degree from Marquette University, and is now getting her Ph. D from Stanford in Sociology, and also spent time with Teach for America.

• Caroline Bjerregard became an actuarial analyst at CNA Insurance.

• Emily Slade is pursuing her Ph. D in Biostatistics at Harvard.

• Sarah Wales is also an actuarial analyst, employed by State Farm in their Life/Health Actuarial Department.

• Doree Kreitman is an actuarial analyst, employed by Allstate.

• Merideth Martz is in San Francisco, employed by Dropbox.

• Yaya Gao has been working as a research assistant in accounting right here at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business! Additionally, she has been tutoring mathematics in Ypsilanti.

• Dianna Siyuan Liu is getting her master’s degree in Operations Research at Cornell University.

• Heather Price is teaching math at Basalt High School in Colorado.

• Lejing Xu is getting her master’s degree in Mathematics in Finance at New York University.

• Elizabeth Viera-Patron is getting her master’s degree in Logic at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Carisa Covins is a software developer at Epic.