Update on the MAA NCS 2023 summer seminar
Here’s an exciting update about the MAA NCS 2023 Summer Seminar.
Mark your calendars for June 7 - 9, 2023.
Augsburg University will host our seminar titled Mathematics and Data for Social Justice.
Seminar Facilitators are Dr. Lily Khadjavi and Dr. Gizem Karaali. Please see their brief bios below.
We received NSF Funding (#2303556) to support this seminar, including participant support, and continued learning for our entire section in the 2023 - 2024 academic year.
Facilitator Bios
Dr. Lily Khadjavi is a Professor and Chair of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Dr. Khadjavi's scholarly activity lies in the intersections of mathematics and social justice and in broadening participation in the mathematical sciences. Her research includes a focus on policing and the issue of racial profiling, and in 2020 she was appointed by California State Attorney General Xavier Becerra to the Racial and Identity Profiling Act Board which works with the California Department of Justice. Since 2016, she has served as Principal Investigator for the Association for Women in Math's National Science Foundation-funded travel and mentoring grant program.
Dr. Gizem Karaali is professor of mathematics at Pomona College. She is a founding editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/) and a senior editor of Numeracy (digitalcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/), the journal of the National Numeracy Network. Karaali has published over a hundred articles as well as four edited volumes. In the last decade, Karaali received federal grants for her research and teaching (from the National Security Agency and the National Endowment for the Humanities). Through her career, she has served the MAA's Special Interest Group on Quantitative Literacy (SIGMAA-QL) in various capacities, chairing it in 2018-2020, and organized or facilitated several paper sessions and professional development workshops for mathematics faculty and K-12 teachers on a wide range of themes such as humanistic mathematics, teaching math for social justice, and writing. Karaali is a Sepia Dot (a 2006 Project NExT Fellow).