outreach and service
CHANGE
I believe in education as a path to equity. I am invested in creating academic, mentoring, and professional development opportunities for students from underrepresented groups in STEM. It is crucial to systematically improve the diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity efforts of institutions and departments geared towards recruitment and retention of these populations, especially in Mathematics. I proudly volunteer for several causes, have launched new programs, and organized events around these themes.
For more information about my leadership, outreach, service, and mentoring experiences, please view my CV.
girls talk math
co-founder and WPI Director
Girls Talk Math is a free two-week day camp geared towards girls and non-binary 9th-12th grade students interested in exploring mathematics and media beyond the high school curriculum.
In 2016, Katrina Morgan and I co-founded Girls Talk Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as PhD students. A second camp has been running at the University of Maryland, College Park since 2018 thanks to Sarah Burnett and Victoria Whitley. In 2022, I founded a third chapter of Girls Talk Math at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and in 2024 Claudia Falcon launched a fourth camp at Wake Forest University. Since 2016, Girls Talk Math camps have hosted over 500 students online and in person. Over 60 podcasts about mathematicians and scientists from marginalized groups have been created by Girls Talk Math campers and are available on iTunes and SoundCloud.
The Mathematical Association of America’s Tensor Women and Mathematics grant has been supporting Girls Talk Math at various institutions since its inception in 2016. At WPI, Girls Talk Math is primarily supported by the Women’s Impact Network.
WPI Women in Stem Conference
The WPI Women in STEM conference is an intergenerational event meant to inspire the next generation of students in STEM to be scientists, mathematicians, and engineers who are eager to solve the problems in our communities and the world, while educating their adult champion about STEM and how to support their student on their STEM journey.
Kitty Guo (WPI Biomedical Engineering ‘25) and I designed the Women in STEM @ WPI Scavenger Hunt for the 2023 conference titled Women in STEM: Caring for the World Together. Participants explored campus and learned about the history of women at WPI while completing a STEM-themed scavenger hunt where each stop involved hands-on activities and problem-solving.
Wikipedia Editing
WPI Wikipedia Editing Community founder
In the spring of 2020 I was trained on how to edit, create, and translate Wikipedia pages through a Wiki Education online course. Since then, I have organized and led Wikipedia training workshops and edit-a-thons in person and online. In 2021 I founded the WPI Wikipedia Editing Community with the goal of training new students, faculty, and staff editors on WPI campus: track our impact on the WPI Wiki Outreach Dashboard.
Read an article I co-authored on how institutions can help close Wikipedia’s gender gap published in Nature’s Career Column in May 2022.
Association for Women in Mathematics
I wrote an essay titled Building Community Through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Chapter for the volume Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics: Reminiscences, History, and Visions for the Future of AWM edited by Janet L. Beery, Sarah J. Greenwald, and Cathy Kessel.
I volunteer annually for Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Sonia Kovalevsky Day, organized by our local AWM Chapter.
From August 2018 to March 2022 I was part of the editorial team for the Presidents’ Reflections, lead by Dr. Cathy Kessel, included in the AWM Newsletter. I volunteer annually to judge the AWM Essay Competition.
outreach grants and awards
MAA Tensor Women & Mathematics Grant. May, 2022. (Renewed May 2023 and May 2024.)
Received the Mathematical Association of America Tensor Women & Mathematics. The grant sustains the summer camp Girls Talk Math geared towards female and gender non-conforming high school students interested in Mathematics in the Worcester area of Massachusetts.
Women’s Impact Network Grant. JULY 2022. (ReNEWED JulY 2023 and JUly 2024.)
I have been awarded funds through the Women’s Impact Network grant. The funding is used to support the summer camp Girls Talk Math geared towards female and gender non-conforming high school students interested in Mathematics in the Worcester area of Massachusetts.
MAA TENSOR WOMEN AND MATHEMATICS GRANT. MARCH, 2016. (renewed march, 2017 and march, 2018.)
Received the 2016 Mathematical Association of America Tensor Women and Mathematics Grant, together with Katrina Morgan (PhD Candidate in Mathematics at UNC-Chapel Hill), and with Dr. Hans Christianson (Associate Professor of Mathematics at UNC-Chapel Hill) as Faculty Advisor. The grant funded the summer camp Girls Talk Math geared towards female high school students interested in Mathematics in the Triangle area of North Carolina.