Outreach
I believe in the power of community and our ability to shape it.
"It's a privilege to be able to think about cool math unencumbered by insults and condescension -- and that privilege isn't afforded to everyone. It should be." -- Daniel Litt, twitter, 22 Jan 2021
KSU AWM Student Chapter
I am the faculty advisor for the KSU AWM Student Chapter. We are organizing a lecture on April 11th by KSU undergraduate Meghan Ward on the first Head of the math department, Dr. Mary Winston Newson.
Navajo Math Circles
Summers 2022 and 2023, I ran sessions for a Math Circle in Page, Arizona with Navajo Math Circles!
Sonia Kovalevsky Day
I help organize Sonia Kovalevsky Day at KSU. This free event serves to spark enthusiasm in math for middle school girls in Kansas.
SUMaR at KSU
In 2022, I led two projects for the summer REU at KSU.
Lunch in the Time of Covid
Along with Andrew Kobin, Kristin DeVleming, Vance Blankers and Manami Roy, I have been organizing a regular lunch panel to help create community among mathematicians in the pandemic. The lunches are informal and the topics are surround issues of concern to early career mathematicians. We strive to make the panel representative and the conversation inclusive. For more information, visit Andrew's site.
MPM
While a grad student at UMN, I co-founded and co-organized the Mathematics Project at Minnesota (MPM) -- an annual four day workshop for undergraduates at the University of Minnesota who come from underrepresented groups in mathematics.
The motivation behind MPM is to form a community among undergraduates who do not feel that they belong. This involves not just learning math but also taking ownership of physical spaces and bonding over shared experiences.
Many MPM alumns have gone on to graduate school in math.
WiM
While at the UMN, I spent 2 years working as the graduate student coordinator for Women in Math (WiM).
Through WiM I attempted to make a place for undergraduate and graduate women at the UMN to form a community. I am very proud of the strong tradition of women graduate students at the UMN and their continual work to make math a just and equitable place for those underrepresented.
Mentoring
Mentoring is the aspect of my job that I am truly most passionate about. I want to empower those who feel they (or who others think) do not belong do not belong in math. Many successful women and BIPOC mathematicians felt they needed to be told explicitly that they should keep doing math. I view it as my responsibility to be that voice for my students and to do my best to advocate for them wherever I can.
I am currently a mentor through the Math Alliance.
In the past I have done mentoring at the UMN through Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), MPM, and WiM.
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