She is a recipient of the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in STEM Education. She is also a former high school mathematics teacher and prior to that a patent writer in her hometown of Houston, Texas. She received her PhD in curriculum and instruction, as well as her MA in educational studies, from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She received her BS in electrical engineering from Duke University in 2001. The Program in Mathematics Education sponsors this event. CREATE Seminar Series