"I’d like for everyone to be a “math ambassador”. So many people have terribly negative experiences with math and those experiences can derail them from opportunities. I try in my research, practice, and everyday life to be intentionally invitational: to steer folks who think they don’t have any interest or talent in math to see that mathematics as a discipline is a very big tent. There’s something in it for everyone."
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