Activities and Community
I firmly believe in the axioms of teaching mathematics created by Federico Ardila:
Mathematical potential is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
I helped plan a hackathon-style event for students at the Claremont Colleges called Hack for Black Lives.
Check it out here: https://sites.google.com/view/hack4blacklives/home?authuser=0 and read about it here: https://tsl.news/hmc-hack-for-black-lives/ .
Black Lives at Mudd
I served as BLAM co-president in the 2020-2021 school year.
Pictures of some those in my mathematics community from MSRI-UP, including some of my math mentors: Dr. Marissa Loving, Dr. Pamela E. Harris, Joseph Rennie, Dr. Rebecca Garcia, and Dr. Gordon Rojas Kirby.
Check out the other students of MSRI-UP 2019, who make up a large portion of my math family: https://www.msri.org/web/msri/education/for-undergraduates/msri-up/2019/people.
I returned to MSRI-UP as a TA in 2022 and got to meet all these amazing people!