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Service + Activities

This page is for service and activities in the broadest sense; anything that doesn't quite fit under research or teaching, you can find it here. That includes baking.

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If I am taking on a new service or activity, it has to bring me joy or serve the math community in a way that I think is positive. If I don't feel certain of either of those things, then I won't be taking part.

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Why? Math is political. If it wasn't, then I could do math in peace as a Black Bahamian woman. Instead I spend so many invisible hours trying to find and build math community to be a part of.  I love the idea of having a math community that I don't have to beg to be treated as an equal in. I want my energy to be put toward fulfilling that goal for me and for others.

Recent Media

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A Call to Defend Bodily Autonomy in the Math Community

A co-written letter to the editor in the AMS notices

 

Featured in Modern Mathematics Confronts

its White, Patriarchal Past

An article in Scientific American

 

Who will celebrate you? 

Post written for AMS inclusion/exclusion blog

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#BlackinMathWeek

An episode of the podcast Relatively Prime 

Hosted with Michole Enjoli

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The First Black in Math Twitter Event

MAA Math Values Blog

Authored with Omayra Ortega

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Featured in Baked with Love

Black Girl MATHgic's February 2021 box

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Current-ish Activities

Big Ideas In Dynamics: An AIM Research Community for Graduate Students in Dynamics launched in February 2023! The second semester starts in Sempember 2023. It's co-organized by Benjamin Call and myself. It focuses on collaborative learning among graduate students in dynamical systems, specifically smooth dynamics, ergodic theory, and homogeneous dynamics. We hope to build connections across institutions, and strengthen the reading, research, and collaboration skills of current and recent graduate students.

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Hidden NORMS online seminar series for undergraduates, hosted by the Latinx Research Community (Speaking in Spring 2022)

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Project NExT Fellow (Gold Cohort 2021/2022)

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Big Ideas in Dynamics

Organizations to Pay Attention To

Mathematically Gifted and Black

Features the accomplishments of Black mathematicians

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Indigenous Mathematicians

A website highlighting the work of Indigenous mathematicians

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Lathisms

(Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences)

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Spectra 

The association for LGBT mathematicians

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