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The Legacy of Vivienne Malone-Mayes (February 10, 1932 – June 9, 1995)

Vivienne Malone-Mayes, the fifth African American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics, wrote an article in November-December 1988 AWM Newsletter where she outlined the history of Black women with PhDs, and contrasts the successes of White women in math with the struggles of Black women. Indeed, Malone-Mayes was a graduate student at the University [Read More...]

Presenter: Edray Herber Goins, Pomona College
Authors: Edray Goins and Dorina Mitrea
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Blackbird, Fly: The Legacy of Vivienne Malone-Mayes and African-American Women within AWM
Presentation Time: June 17, 2022; 3:30 pm

African American Women Mathematicians as Women and Mathematicians In An Era of Multiple Scale Politics

The speaker will discuss the context of her career and time as a member of the AWM Executive Committee and present her view of the likely challenges AA women mathematicians are presently facing now and in the future. The speaker will use our current pandemic and political crises to ask if we have more wholistic and less individualistic responsibilities as [Read More...]

Presenter: Fern Y. Hunt, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Authors: Fern Y. Hunt
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Blackbird, Fly: The Legacy of Vivienne Malone-Mayes and African-American Women within AWM
Presentation Time: June 17, 2022; 3:55 pm

Caught in the Middle

Venn Diagrams are useful to depict set theory. These diagrams and mathematical notation are utilized to determine the union and intersection of sets. It has been proven that the intersection of two sets is always contained in and smaller than or equal to each individual set. As we broaden this theory to the presence of underrepresented groups, [Read More...]

Presenter: Dawn A Lott, Delaware State University
Authors: Dawn A Lott
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Blackbird, Fly: The Legacy of Vivienne Malone-Mayes and African-American Women within AWM
Presentation Time: June 17, 2022; 4:20 pm

Breaking Boundary Conditions: Bringing your whole self to the profession*

As a woman of color in often male-dominated mathematical spaces, there have been many times when I felt the need to withhold my true self in order to be seen as professional or competent. This can be especially true in situations where women are managing the bulk of home and family responsibilities. But what would it look like if we brought more of [Read More...]

Presenter: Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College
Authors: Talithia Williams
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Blackbird, Fly: The Legacy of Vivienne Malone-Mayes and African-American Women within AWM
Presentation Time: June 17, 2022; 4:45 pm