Bonus Cards
The bonus cards of the Limited Edition, Deck 1 of EvenQuads feature the below amazing women who had an undergraduate mathematics degree and went on to other brilliant careers. Flip a card to get information about the artist, and a link to a short biography. All the images are courtesy of volunteer artists and the short biographies are the work of volunteer biography writers. A full list of the volunteers can be found here. If you’d like to suggest nominees for the bonus cards of the remaining decks, please email playingcards@awm-math.org.
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin
b. 1962
Portrait by Measa Kuhlers
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (b. 1962)
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin was born on February 11, 1962 in Madison Wisconsin. Baldwin has served as a junior United States Senator from Wisconsin since January 2013. Baldwin became the first LGBT woman elected to the House of Representatives and to the Senate in 1998 and 2012 respectively. She graduated Valedictorian from Madison West High School and went on to double major in political science and mathematics at Smith College, graduating in 1984. She then received her law degree from UW-Madison in 1989.
After her election in 1998, Baldwin served seven terms in the House of Representatives, getting recognition for her work on middle class economic security. She co-wrote the Affordable Care Act provision that allows young people to remain on their parent’s insurance plans up to age 26, and shepherded the ACA through committee to a floor vote.
Baldwin has introduced 10 bills that have become law, including the Improving Access to Maternal Care Act and the Veterans Acquiring Community Care Expect Safe Services Act.
Baldwin has led many efforts and introduced legislation to address the student debt crisis and college affordability. She introduced the In The Red Act, a reform to address college affordability, the America’s College Promise Act, and the Working Student Act. Baldwin serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Baldwin
https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/about
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tammy-Baldwin
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/tammy_baldwin/400013
https://www.senate.gov/general/committee_assignments/assignments.htm
Zaha Hadid (1950–2016)
Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi born, British architect who was known for her radical architectural designs. Her undergraduate degree was in mathematics at the American University of Beirut. She moved in 1972 to London to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. In 1979, she established her own firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) in London. She then began her career teaching architecture, first at the Architectural Association, then, over the years at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Columbia University. Her early proposed designs for the Peak in Hong Kong, Bay Opera house in Cardiff, the Kurfürstendamm (1986) in Berlin, and the Düsseldorf Art and Media Centre (1992–93) were thought to be too radical to move beyond paper to reality. Her avant-garde style landed her in the “deconstructivism” category of architecture, which is symbolised by a fragmented, asymmetric building.
Some of her famous projects include: the Mind Zone exhibition space (1999) at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, London; Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio (1997-2000), also the first American museum to be designed by a woman; London Aquatics Centre built for the 2012 Olympics; the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Dubai; the Guangzhou Opera House, China (2003-2010) and the MAXXI museum of contemporary art and architecture in Rome. She won her first Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize for the MAXXI museum. She won a second Stirling Prize the following year for a sleek structure she conceived for Evelyn Grace Academy, a secondary school in London. She was the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004) and the Royal Gold Medal awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (2015). Hadid was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2012 for services to architecture.
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zaha-Hadid
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/zaha-hadid-architecture-buildings
Brittany Rhodes
A Detroit native, Brittany Rhodes received her B.S. in Mathematics from Spelman College and her M.B.A. in Marketing, Communication and Organizational Behavior from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. After 15 years as a math tutor, Brittany realized her students need foundational help. To achieve that goal, she founded Black Girl MATHgic (BGM). BGM is a movement dedicated to increasing math confidence, awareness, enthusiasm, identity, fluency and persistence in children, with a focus on girls and black children. BGM’s flagship product is the Black Girl MATHgic Box, which is the first and only subscription box designed to increase math confidence and decrease math anxiety in girls on a 3rd–8th grade math level.
The boxes contain interactive math activities for a foundational lesson, a profile of black female mathematicians, math affirmations to strengthen confidence and an adult guide to help facilitate the use of the materials. While Black Girl MATHgic was in pre-launch, Brittany won the HER IDEA Pitch Competition held at the 110th NAACP National Convention in Detroit. She also secured a $5,000 equity-free grant from HBCUvc (Historically Black Colleges and Universities Venture Capitalists) and PledgeLA.
References
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