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 
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