I am committed to doing my part to improve the mathematics community. I believe that mathematics is for everyone and that everyone should be able to see themselves as mathematicians. I am also committed to doing my part to improve the community of any institution I am a part of. You can read a bit more about some of my community efforts below. I am always happy to share my experience as an out graduate student and visiting faculty member with other LGBTQIA+ folks, please feel free to send me an e-mail if you would like to chat. In addition, I’m more than happy to share how any of the initiatives below that I helped start got off the ground.
At Mount Holyoke College:
– Along with Jordan Lassonde, I received funding from Interim President Tatum’s Good Idea Fund to host a lunch for LGBTQIA+ Faculty and Staff to form community and get a sense of what types of community events would be useful for LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff. We hosted our first lunch in Spring 2023 and intend to keep working on future events for Fall 2023.
– I have been on the UMass Amherst Out in STEM chapter’s out faculty panel.
– Along with Samantha Kirk, I planned peer mentoring lunches for visiting faculty members in the Mathematics, Statistics, and Data Science Department.
– I worked with the MHC Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics to organize the work of the undergraduate student volunteers for the 2023 Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.
– I am the faculty advisor for the Mount Holyoke Renegades , Mount Holyoke’s student-run TTRPG organization.
As a graduate student at UMass Amherst, I:
– Helped start the Math/Stats Department Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC) and co-chaired the council for its first two years. GSAC worked to advocate for and increase programming for Masters’ and PhD students in the department.
– Helped start the UMass Amherst Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics . During my time at UMass, I both supported the undergraduate student leaders in developing their programming and developed programming for graduate students (along with some of my awesome colleagues!)
– Served on the Math/Stats Department Climate Advisory Committee for three years. As part of my work on this committee, I worked with a graduate student colleague to survey all graduate students in the department and use this information to suggest changes to the graduate program; and with a faculty member on a grant we received to introduce “pre-talks” to seminars in the department to make them more accessible for beginning graduate students.
– Developed Community Events for LGBTQIA+ graduate students, faculty, and staff along with a fellow graduate student and a staff member.
EDGE:
– I was an EDGEr in 2014 and the program changed my life. I am so thankful for all of the mentorship I received through EDGE, all the math I have learned through EDGE, and the friends I have made through EDGE that have brought so much joy in to my life.
– I was an EDGE mentor in 2018 and I can easily say that this was my favorite graduate school summer.