I am a mathematician, educator, and dreamer of connections...

Mathematics, for me, is not only a discipline but a way of being in the world:
attentive, curious, and open to pattern.

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I teach at Emory University, where I explore how mathematical ideas take form through experience, movement, and reflection.
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Through MathLEAP — Mathematics Learning through Experience, Action, and Practice — a collaboration with dance professor Lori Teague,
I invite students to approach mathematics as something both analytical and expressive.
Together, we experiment, we move, we reason, and we notice how precision and creativity can coexist (even when they argue a little).

Our work has been featured in the Tea for Teaching podcast and in Emory Report, and has grown into a new course, Differential Equations through Movement, supported by the Winship Award for Teaching-Track Faculty.

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My mathematical interests lie in differential equations, numerical linear algebra and optimization.
But what I love most is helping students see that mathematics is also about relationships:
between ideas, between people, and between the mind and the moving world.

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I am also the Honors Program Coordinator for the Department of Mathematics
and Chair of the College Honors Program Committee at Emory, where I guide students through the joys and challenges of independent research.
Mentoring is at the heart of my work — not just to teach mathematics, but to nurture confidence, curiosity, and belonging.

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Beyond my academic life, I share it all with my husband — a mathematician with an engineer’s background (which means we never quite agree on how much precision a conversation really needs). 😄
And with our two beautiful, luminous daughters, who remind me daily what it means to learn with wonder. They dance, ask impossible questions, and find symmetry where I see toys scattered across the floor. They teach me — again and again — that discovery begins with attention, love, and play.

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I often find myself dancing, sketching ideas, or creating something that doesn’t need to “make sense” — just to move, breathe, and exist for its own joy.

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I believe that mathematics — like movement, like motherhood — is a language of care:
a way of noticing, connecting, and holding the world gently, one idea at a time.