outreach and service

Girls Talk Math is a two-week-long day camp hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program is available to female and gender non-conforming rising 9th through 12th graders in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina who are interested in exploring challenging math problems that go beyond the high school curriculum. The program is free for all attendees. In 2016-2018, the program was funded through the Mathematical Association of America Tensor Women and Mathematics grant. Since 2019, the program is funded through the Mathematical Association of America Tensor SUMMA grant.

Together with Katrina Morgan (PhD candidate in Mathematics at UNC), we founded, organized, and ran the camp starting in June 2016. Since its inception, the program has hosted over 120 students at UNC and Girls Talk Math UMD, a sister camp at the University of Maryland at College Park, had two successful runs in 2018 and 2019. 

The goal of Girls Talk Math is to make advanced mathematics accessible to students of underrepresented genders in STEM through a free educational summer program in which students with an interest in mathematics work with their peers to tackle challenging problems and learn how to effectively communicate their work.

I joined the Leadership Board at 500 Women Scientists in August of 2018. 500 Women Scientists is a global non-profit grassroots organization aimed at making science more open, inclusive, and accessible.

I am part of the Partnerships Team which focuses on collaborations with individuals and other organizations with similar goals. Email us at partnerships@500womenscientists.org if you are interested in working with our organization.

Become an active part of 500 Women Scientists by joining your local pod and by donating. Sign-up for the Request a Woman in STEMM Database and follow us on Twitter @500womensci.

In the Fall of 2019 I spearheaded the creation of a Mentoring Network at Florida State University based on the model I developed at UNC Chapel Hill. The network pairs graduate student mentors with undergraduate mentees.

In the Fall of 2018 I joined the editorial team of the Presidents’ Reflections, lead by Dr. Cathy Kessel. We are collecting and editing AWM Presidents’ Reflections to include in the bi-monthly AWM Newsletter.

When I was a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill, I served as the President of the local AWM chapter for two years. The purpose of the UNC Chapter is to foster a sense of community amongst female mathematicians, to encourage girls and women to pursue mathematics, and to promote diversity within the UNC Chapel Hill Mathematics department.

As president, I started a Mentoring Network pairing undergraduate students mentees with graduate students mentors. I organized Professional Development panels and workshops for the graduate student members of the chapter. I initiated the Meet the Speaker series, where members can meet and network with speakers coming to UNC Chapel Hill to give seminar talks. I organized a Public Lecture inviting Dr. Moon Duchin from Tufts University to talk about the Mathematics of voting and gerrymandering.

The UNC Chapel Hill AWM Chapter is the inaugural winner of the 2017 AWM Student Chapter Award for Community Outreach. We also organized the first AWM Triangle Conference for Undergraduate and Graduate Students thanks to funding through the NSF INCLUDES WATCH:US at the University of Nebraska.