January 3 Day 301: Time Machine

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It has been more than fifteen years since my family moved to Tacoma, WA. I left a tenured position to follow my husband to the Pacific Northwest. At the time people thought I was crazy to leave without a replacement position—but keeping my family together was more important than a job or a title. Besides, I believed things would work out. And they did.

I was fortunate to be hired part-time by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) as the first Executive Director(ED) with a PhD in mathematics and continued in that position until hired as a full professor by the University of Washington Tacoma in 2007. This year, 2021, marks the 50th anniversary since the founding of AWM. To help with the celebration, I did a deep dive into old photos that I took during my time as ED. I am amazed at the people I met then, many at early stages of their careers, others as celebrated mathematicians. I will share a few with you today.

(I was still using a dedicated camera, I have not corrected the red-eye, and selfies were not yet a thing.)

  • JMM 2006: Dawn Lott, Carolyn Green, and Catherine Roberts
  • JMM 2006: Barbara Keyfitz, Ingrid Daubechies, Lenore Blum
  • JMM 2006: Rachel Levy and Gizem Karaali
  • JMM 2006: Beth Campbell Hetrick
  • JMM 2008: Betty Anne Case
  • JMM 2008: Janet Struili and son
  • JMM 2008: Karen Parshall
  • JMM 2008: Cathy Kessel and Vera Pless
  • JMM 2007: Ken Ono and Yain Cooper
  • JMM 2007: Julie Bergner
  • JMM 2007: Alissa Crans, Janet Beery, Erica Flapan
  • JMM 2007: Fumiko Futamura
  • JMM 2007: (L to R) Sharon Garthwaite, Alissa Crans, Sarah Witherspoon, Alessandra Pantano, and Angela Barnhill.
  • SIAM 2006: Cymra Haskell, Ami Radunskaya, Erika Camacho
  • SIAM 2006: Hannah Callendar
  • JMM 2008: Lida Barrett
  • JMM 2008: Maeve McCarthy
  • JMM 2008: Barbara Keyfitz, Audrey Terras, Cathy Kessel
  • USAMO 2006 (L to R) Fern Hunt, Holly Gaff, Melanie Matchett Wood, Philip Matchett Wood, Sherry Gong, and Li Liangqiang
  • USAMO 2006 Fan Chung and Sherry Gong
  • JMM 2007 Ana Caraiani and Joe Gallian
  • Lee Lorch

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Mathematician. Mother. Wife. Leader. I am the Executive Director of Seattle Universal Math Museum after many years working as a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Tacoma. Mother of Anson and Zachary. Wife to Mark. President of the Mathematical Association of America 2021-2022. Past-President of MAA 2023.

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