The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is happy to welcome the following members to its Board of Directors:
President, Hortensia Soto
Past President, Jennifer Quinn
Officer-At-Large, Russell Goodman
MAA expresses its sincere gratitude to the following outgoing member of the Board of Directors for their dedication to the association, community, and mathematics. We are thankful for her service and leadership.
Officer-At-Large, Emille Davie Lawrence
President, Hortensia Soto
Past President, Jennifer Quinn
Officer-At-Large, Russell Goodman
MAA expresses its sincere gratitude to the following outgoing member of the Board of Directors for their dedication to the association, community, and mathematics. We are thankful for her service and leadership.
Officer-At-Large, Emille Davie Lawrence
Hortensia Soto, President
Dr. Hortensia Soto is a Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University. She has published in various areas of mathematics education, including assessment, mathematical preparation of elementary teachers, outreach efforts for high school girls, and especially in the area of teaching and learning undergraduate mathematics. Her current research investigates the teaching and learning of complex analysis, where she adopts an embodied cognition perspective and is part of the Embodied Mathematics Imagination and Cognition community. Since her days as an undergraduate student, Hortensia has mentored young women and promoted mathematics via summer outreach programs. She has also facilitated professional development for K-16 teachers in Nebraska, Colorado, and California. As a result of this work, she received the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. Hortensia is a working member of the Mathematical Association of America: she has served as the Associate Secretary and is an editor of the MAA Instructional Practices Guide. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, practicing yoga, meditating, reading, and, most of all, spending time with her son Miguel.
Jennifer Quinn, Past President
Dr. Jennifer Quinn is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Tacoma. She earned her BA, MS, and PhD from Williams College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin, respectively. Her first academic position was at Occidental College, where she rose through the ranks to full professor and chaired the department. At UW Tacoma, for the past 15 years, she has helped build a mathematics curriculum on the expanding campus, served four years as Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, and stepped in as Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs when needed. Jennifer has held many positions of national leadership in mathematics, including Executive Director of the Association for Women in Mathematics, co-editor of MAA’s Math Horizons, and several positions on the MAA Board of Directors (and its predecessor, the Executive Council). She received an MAA Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching and a Beckenbach Book award for Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof, co-authored with Arthur Benjamin. As a combinatorial scholar, Jennifer thinks that beautiful proofs are as much art as science. Simplicity, elegance, transparency, and fun should be the driving principles. As President of MAA 2021-2022, Jennifer worked to do what was needed when it was required to keep MAA strong and build community during pandemic isolation. Serving as President was a highlight of her professional career, and she looks forward to one more year on the MAA Board of Directors as Past-President.
Russell Goodman, Officer-At-Large
Dr. Russell Goodman is a Professor of Mathematics at Central College in Pella, IA. He earned his BS and MS from the University of Texas – Arlington and then his PhD from the University of Oklahoma, all in mathematics. Russell is a Project NExT Forest Dot (2002) and has served the MAA through the Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics and the Classroom Resource Materials Board, along with past leadership in the Iowa MAA section. At Central, Russell works with students on various data projects, mainly in sports analytics. He runs his own sports analytics conference and summer camp, the Midwest Sports Analytics Meeting, and the Midwest Sports Analytics Camp. He also won Central’s faculty Dr. John Wesselink Award for outstanding institutional service. One example of that institutional service is his role as an assistant coach with the Central women’s soccer program as their goalkeeper's coach. In his spare time, Russell enjoys watching/coaching soccer, running, reading, all kinds of non-country music, and spending time with his wife, Linda, and two beautiful daughters, Mia and Brooklyn.
Dr. Hortensia Soto is a Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University. She has published in various areas of mathematics education, including assessment, mathematical preparation of elementary teachers, outreach efforts for high school girls, and especially in the area of teaching and learning undergraduate mathematics. Her current research investigates the teaching and learning of complex analysis, where she adopts an embodied cognition perspective and is part of the Embodied Mathematics Imagination and Cognition community. Since her days as an undergraduate student, Hortensia has mentored young women and promoted mathematics via summer outreach programs. She has also facilitated professional development for K-16 teachers in Nebraska, Colorado, and California. As a result of this work, she received the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. Hortensia is a working member of the Mathematical Association of America: she has served as the Associate Secretary and is an editor of the MAA Instructional Practices Guide. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, practicing yoga, meditating, reading, and, most of all, spending time with her son Miguel.
Jennifer Quinn, Past President
Dr. Jennifer Quinn is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Tacoma. She earned her BA, MS, and PhD from Williams College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin, respectively. Her first academic position was at Occidental College, where she rose through the ranks to full professor and chaired the department. At UW Tacoma, for the past 15 years, she has helped build a mathematics curriculum on the expanding campus, served four years as Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, and stepped in as Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs when needed. Jennifer has held many positions of national leadership in mathematics, including Executive Director of the Association for Women in Mathematics, co-editor of MAA’s Math Horizons, and several positions on the MAA Board of Directors (and its predecessor, the Executive Council). She received an MAA Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching and a Beckenbach Book award for Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof, co-authored with Arthur Benjamin. As a combinatorial scholar, Jennifer thinks that beautiful proofs are as much art as science. Simplicity, elegance, transparency, and fun should be the driving principles. As President of MAA 2021-2022, Jennifer worked to do what was needed when it was required to keep MAA strong and build community during pandemic isolation. Serving as President was a highlight of her professional career, and she looks forward to one more year on the MAA Board of Directors as Past-President.
Russell Goodman, Officer-At-Large
Dr. Russell Goodman is a Professor of Mathematics at Central College in Pella, IA. He earned his BS and MS from the University of Texas – Arlington and then his PhD from the University of Oklahoma, all in mathematics. Russell is a Project NExT Forest Dot (2002) and has served the MAA through the Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics and the Classroom Resource Materials Board, along with past leadership in the Iowa MAA section. At Central, Russell works with students on various data projects, mainly in sports analytics. He runs his own sports analytics conference and summer camp, the Midwest Sports Analytics Meeting, and the Midwest Sports Analytics Camp. He also won Central’s faculty Dr. John Wesselink Award for outstanding institutional service. One example of that institutional service is his role as an assistant coach with the Central women’s soccer program as their goalkeeper's coach. In his spare time, Russell enjoys watching/coaching soccer, running, reading, all kinds of non-country music, and spending time with his wife, Linda, and two beautiful daughters, Mia and Brooklyn.
