LEADERSHIP FELLOWS
Each year, Leadership Fellows propose and execute a project with the guidance of their Mentor. Learn more about current and past Fellows below.
2023-2024
Sarah Bryant
American Mathematical Association
Project Description:
Creating a promotional plan that ensures broadened participation in AMS research, travel, support and professional development programs, especially among mathematicians and students at MSIs.
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Mentor: Aris Winger
Johanna Franklin
Hofstra University
Project Description:
Creating a Research Network for computability theorists with marginalized gender identities & organizing a Research Collaboration Conference at a math research center.
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Mentor: Karen Smith
Kevin Palencia
Northern Illinois University
Project Description:
Implementing culturally responsive teaching practices such as active learning and contextualized mathematical problems to teach calculus courses at NIU.
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Mentor: Juan Gutierrez
Elizabeth Donovan
Murray State University
Project Description:
Creating guidelines and info packets outlining how to make meetings, conferences, workshops etc. in the math/stat communities more inclusive.
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Mentor: Kathryn Leonard
Debbie Narang
University of Alaska
Project Description:
Creating graduate math courses for secondary math teachers with a lens of equity and inclusion. This would be accomplished as a set of online modules focused on DEI and inserted into the graduate courses.
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Mentor: Spencer Bagley
Terrance Pendleton
Drake University
Project Description:
Creating an Industrial Math Research Hub that allows students to work on practical applications of their liberal arts education in a “real world” setting. Emphasis will be placed on attracting a diverse class of students with limited experience/exposure to mathematics.
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Mentor: Michael Young
2022-2023
Lorena Aguirre Salazar
Valdosta State University
Project Description:
Work on a project that aims at building community and belonging in Mathematics at Valdosta State University through group work and reflections.
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Mentor: Kamuela Yong
Kelly Bubp
Frostburg State University
Project Description:
Leverage my multilevel leadership positions to foster the development and dissemination of equitable pedagogical practices through active and inquiry learning norms supported by sustainable learning assistant programs.
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Mentor: Brian Katz
Celisa Counterman
Northampton Community College
Project Description:
Create an online training platform for faculty in STEM disciplines to introduce them to content specific technology and college orientation.
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Mentor: Nancy Sattler
Bree Ettinger
Emory University
Project Description:
Lay the groundwork for substantive change in the climate, culture, and curriculum of the undergraduate mathematics program at Emory by analyzing our enrolments and majors, assessing policies and their implementation, and broadening faculty engagement in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts.
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Mentor: Maria Lorenz
Nicole Infante
University of Nebraska Omaha
Project Description:
This project will examine and revise first-year math placement practices with the goal of using institutional data beyond a single placement test score to help see the student as a whole person and better place them.
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Mentor: Scott Wolpert
James Kimball
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Project Description:
Identify appropriate procedures and classroom policies that will foster and grow the best learning strategies for students coming out of remote learning.
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Mentor: Kate Stevenson
John Osoinach
The University of Dallas
Project Description:
Develop a faculty exchange program, where small colleges in Texas exchange a faculty member for a semester or year, with the goal of improving how small colleges teach mathematics and engage their students.
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Mentor: Linda Braddy
Mike Brilleslyper
Florida Polytechnic University
Project Description:
Lead an interdisciplinary team to reform and integrate first-year mathematics with other core STEM courses.
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Mentor: William (Brit) Kirwan
Corrin Clarkson
Indiana University
Project Description:
Create a five-year plan for increasing student success in mathematics general education at Indiana University.
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Mentor: Jim Fowler
Susan Crook
Loras College
Project Description:
Running, evaluating, adapting, and possibly extending quantitative reasoning simulations set in local, real life situations for a lower level math course.
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Mentor: Rick Gilman
Emily Evans
Brigham Young University
Project Description:
Organize an applied mathematics conference for undergraduates with a special focus on women and other underrepresented minorities.
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Mentor: Aaron Luttman
Brendan Kelly
Harvard University
Project Description:
Shift math education across the country from an exercise in gatekeeping to a transformative student experience that allows students to better understand the complexity of the world.
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Mentor: Michael Dorff
Brittney Miller
Coe College
Project Description:
Work to find effective interventions for students in our introductory mathematics courses that will improve retention and student persistence in the department.
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Mentor: Jenny Quinn
Robin Pemantle
University of Pennsylvania
Project Description:
This proposal creates a teaching community via an annual workshop extending throughout the academic year, including classroom visits, discussions of readings, collaborative lesson planning, and creation of video content for purposes of pedagogical training.
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Mentor: Roger Howe
2021-2022
Nathan Alexander
Morehouse College
Project Description:
My project will focus on the development of a community data hub which will focus on examining, communicating and advocating for more justice-oriented data practices and frameworks that inform them. This project is being co-led by students and faculty from the Atlanta University Center (AUC), as well as local community members.
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Mentor: Rachel Levy
Edgar Fuller
Florida International University
Project Description:
My project would increase the interaction between teaching and research faculty using discussions about classroom interactions with students in order to cultivate a new vision of student capabilities.
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Mentor: Ricardo Moena
Dandrielle Lewis
High Point University
Project Description:
For my project, I will create a Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous Math Month Summer Program that focuses on math training and mentoring of Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous middle school students, high school students, and undergraduates.
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Mentor: Deanna Haunsperger
Stephanie McCaslin
College of Southern Maryland
Project Description:
I propose to improve the pass rates of Black/African-American students through an in-depth analysis of the curriculum, teaching modalities, texts and materials, and support structures.
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Mentor: Linda Braddy
Victor Piercey
Ferris State University
Project Description:
I will work on two anti-racism initiatives in mathematics: one will be a reading group in my department and the other will be an MAA task-force appointed by CRAFTY.
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Mentor: Cindy Wyels
Daniel Reinholz
San Diego State University
Project Description:
I will create a framework for attending to disability justice in mathematics education.
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Mentor: Sandy Ho
Katherine Stevenson
California State University - Northridge
Project Description:
This project will build resources for and explore the feasibility of offering a hybrid dual enrollment college credit math course offered as a collaboration between the CSU and high school districts that lack fully credentialed teachers.
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Mentor: Uri Treisman
Thomas Wakefield
Youngstown State University
Project Description:
We will replace YSU’s remaining developmental mathematics course with a coaching model where small groups of students work to improve their mathematics skills under the guidance of a student.
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Mentor: Michael Dorff
Kamuela Yong
University of Hawaii - West O'ahu
Project Description:
We will be building a community for Indigenous people in math by bringing together all Indigenous peoples.
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Mentor: Pamela Harris
Jayadev Athreya
University of Washington
Project Description:
Create and empower a new standing Indigenous Engagement Committee at PIMS, to help PIMS support Indigenous-led initiatives in the mathematical sciences.
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Mentor: Mark Green
Brian Katz
California State University - Long Beach
Project Description:
I am working to build a sustainable, regional community for faculty who are moving their own teaching and the cultures of their departments toward inquiry and other student-centered pedagogies.
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Mentor: David Bressoud
Maria Lorenz
Temple University
Project Description:
The goal of my project is to create 2-credit co-requisite courses for our entry level mathematics courses that lead to calculus.
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Mentor: William Ysla Velez
May Mei
Denison University
Project Description:
I will lead the inaugural Cohort of New Chairs (CoNCh) program at Denison University, which will meet regularly to discuss the specific concerns and interests of new department chairs.
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Mentor: Rick Gilman
Patrick X. Rault
University of Nebraska - Omaha
Project Description:
Create a five-year strategic plan that will set the Communities for Mathematics Inquiry in Teaching (COMMIT) Network on a path to be self-sustaining.
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Mentor: Stan Yoshinobu
Ksenija Simic-Muller
Pacific Lutheran University
Project Description:
For my project, I wish to energize my department to recruit and support a more diverse student body into the major, and to improve access to and success in mathematics for all students.
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Mentor: Suzanne Doree
Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo
Valparasio University
Project Description:
The goal of the project is to help the Chicago Regional Alliance for Minority Participation find its footing by facilitating discussions among faculty, building connections and providing logistic support for programmatic ideas.
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Mentor: William (Brit) Kirwan
Brett Wick
Washington University - St. Louis
Project Description:
The goal of this project is to address training opportunities that impact both the Master's and PhD programs through participation in local and national programmatic opportunities for interdisciplinary research opportunities.
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Mentor: Tara Holm