Community Outreach
In Summer 2023, I was an instructor for both weeks of Summer Illinois Math Camp (SIM Camp). I designed a course on Counting and Graph Theory for Camp Epsilon (middle school) and Camp Delta (high school), where each camp ran for a week. In Camp Delta I told them about Graph Reconstruction and shared some of the research problems I have been working on in this field.
Since 2018, I have been involved as a volunteer, organizer, or course designer in almost every outreach event organized by the graduate chapter of Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. You can find a list of these events and my roles in them in my CV.
In 2022, for the 50th anniversary of AWM, along with another graduate student, I co-wrote the article "Looking within and reaching out: outreach, friendship, and community in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign AWM student chapter" which was published in the book "Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics".
As part of the final project for the graduate course "Sociopolitical Perspectives on Mathematics and Science Education", I developed an outreach curriculum titled "Math, Identity, and the Human Experience", which I plan to run as a day-long outreach event for high school students in Spring 2024, through the AWM graduate chapter at U of I. My goal is to teach kids about some fundamental math topics like logic, sets, and induction, while having conversations about real-life implications of these concepts like belonging and intersectionality, through storytelling.