I am extremely interested in mathematics education, both at the postsecondary level and throughout students’ earlier school years.
As the Outreach Program Coordinator for UVic’s student chapter of the Association for Women in Math, I organize and run IMAGINING UVic: a math program which I created to encourage girls in high school to pursue STEM fields. The program began as a summer camp and seminar series in 2022/23, and has continued as a biennial summer camp which ran in 2024 and will return in 2026.
I have organized math clubs at both South Island Distance Education School in Victoria and Stelly’s Secondary School in Saanichton. These clubs were aimed at preparing students between the ages of 10 and 18 for the University of Waterloo CEMC Math Contests. During these sessions, I delivered short lessons introducing new mathematical concepts that went beyond what is covered in the standard curriculum, and then worked with the students to help them develop their problem solving techniques and mathematical intuition.
At UVic, I taught a week of lectures for a first year math course in November 2021, one lecture for a third year math course in September 2022, two lectures for a first year engineering math course in September 2023, and five lectures for a third year math course in the fall of 2024. I have also previously worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Victoria, both in the online Math and Stats Assistance Centre, where I tutored first and second year undergraduate students in math courses ranging from Calculus to Combinatorics to Algebra, and as a tutorial leader for a first year Calculus course.
Outside of the world of mathematics, I am a certified climbing gym instructor (level I and II), and have previously worked for School District 63 as a coach for the Stelly’s Secondary School Climbing Academy, as well as for the Boulders Climbing Gym as both a summer camp leader and an introductory belay instructor.
More information regarding my teaching experience can be found on my detailed CV.