- Dave Auckly =KSU Prof
Dave Auckly earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and then held a postdoctoral position at UT Austin followed by an NSF postdoc at UC Berkeley. He then moved to Kansas State University before taking the Associate Director position at MSRI from 2009 – 2012. His research interests cover a broad range of geometry/topology and overlap with PDE, mathematical physics and algebraic geometry. He has been very involved in many special educational programs. For example, he helped incorporate mathematics into a residential college at the University of Michigan, and created a unique `Brainstorming and Barnstorming’ program and a center for the integration of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research at KSU. He is a codirector and cofounder of the Navajo Nation Math Circle. He lights up like the Vegas strip when he talks about mathematics. Dave has directed many undergraduate and graduate level research projects and he has been recognized with the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America, as well as several teaching awards.
- Lynden Auckly = HS student assistant
Lynden is a student at Manhattan HS. She is interested in environmental science and music theory, plays piano and percussion.
- Misha Mazin = KSU Prof
Misha is an Associate professor of Mathematics at Kansas State University. He got his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2010 and then held a postdoctoral position at the Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, before coming to Kansas State in 2013. Misha was born and grew up in Moscow, Russia, where he attended various Math Circles and Math Camps, as well as participated in Math Olympiads up to the national level. After graduating from high school, Misha immediately became active in teaching and organizing Math Circles and Camps for high school students, first in Russia, then in Toronto, and then in Kansas. Misha is currently organizing the Math Circle at Kansas State University and the Manhattan Math Olympiad at Manhattan, Kansas.
- Andrei Mazin = HS student assistant
Andrei is a student at Manhattan high school. He is interested in computer science, enjoys participating in math competitions and running xc/track.
- Kim Logan = KSU Prof
- Shay Logan = KSU Prof
Shay grew up in the mountains of Western Montana. He went to college in Eastern Washington. After that, he studied math and philosophy in Minnesota, eventually getting a master’s in the former and a PhD in the latter. After postdocs at Smith College, the University of Connecticut, and North Carolina State University, he returned briefly to Minnesota before finally settling at Kansas State University, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department.
- Matthias Kawski = ASU prof
Matthias is the University Professor of Mathematics at Arizona State University. He is the founder of the ASU math circle. His work recruiting for the 2010 Circle on the Road workshop laid the foundation for the Navajo Nation Math Circles project. He has visited many schools, and been a member of our camp staff many times. His research is in mathematical control theory.
- Dani Alvarez-Gavela = MIT Prof
- Dianna Koss = assistant
Dianna is a medical doctor specializing in gerontology. She is the matriarch of a family that has been very supportive of the Navajo MAth Circles over the years. She put together our mathematical
scavenger hunt in Cow Springs. - Henry Fowler = NTU faculty
Henry H Fowler, Ed.D. has been teaching math for over 20 years. His Navajo traditional clans are born for Bitter-water and born into Zuni-Edgewater. His maternal grandparents are the Many Goats and his paternal grandparents are the Red-running-into-the-Water. He is from Tonalea, Arizona. He started his formal education at age four at Kaibeto Boarding School in Kaibeto, Arizona. He received his mathematics education degree from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona and holds an Ed. D. in Educational Leadership and Change. His passion is promoting math literacy. He advocates social justice through mathematics. He also supports cultural relevant materials to guide math instruction. His quest is to combine indigenous epistemologies and social science perspectives to make the teaching of mathematics more relevant, effective, and useful for Navajo students. He has published Navajo Cultural Component Math Curriculum, Weaving Numbers, and wrote a chapter in the Voices of Native American Educators; Collapsing the Fear of Mathematics: A Study of the Effects of Navajo Culture on Navajo Student Performance in Mathematics.
- Shannon Garrison = CCC Faculty
Shannon has worked in PK-12 Education for sixteen years as a teacher, Principal, and Director. She has been at the post-secondary, college level for one year now. - Jessica Dodson = CCC Faculty
Ya’at’eeh! Shi ei Jessica Dodson yinishye. Todichiinii nishli, Tlizilani bashishchiin, Tachiinii dashicheii, doo Todichinii dashinali. Akotego Dine asdzaan nishli. (Hello, my name is Jessica Dodson. Jessica’s clans are Bitterwater, born for the Many Goats Clan, her maternal grandparents are the Red Running into the Water, and her paternal grandparents are the Bitterwater Clan. That is the way she identifies herself as a Dine woman.) She has three years’ experience of coordinating an Elementary and Middle School After School Program.
- Dawnlei Hunter Ben = DEAP Teacher
Dawnlei Hunter Ben
Dawnlei Hunter Ben is Red Running Through the water Zuni division (Naash’t’zhi Ta’chii’nii). Born for the Wondering clan (Naakai Dine’e). Her maternal grandparents are Bitter Water clan (To’di’chii’nii). And her paternal grandparents are Big Water (To’di’chii’nii). She is originally from Canyon DeChelly (Tse’yi) and graduated from Window Rock High. She helped us keep organized from 2013 – 2016, and joined our organizers again in 2022. - Derek James Brown = Film maker and chaperone
Is originally from Ganado, AZ. United States Marine Corps Veteran (field artillery), Has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Digital Filmmaking & Video Production, 2013 Regional Heartland Emmy Award Winner for Best Cultural Documentary title Urban Rez. Graduated from Gallup Central High School.
- Veronica (Ronnie) Yazzie = DEAP Teacher
- Cory Johnson = DEAP Teacher
- Jalen Redhair = Role Model and Public Health Expert
- John Phflaumer = National Park Service Speaker
- Czarina Salido = Role Model
- Ty Fierce Metteba = Role Model and Ph.D. student at Columbia University
Kim grew up near San Diego, CA and went to college in Eastern Washington. She moved to Manhattan, KS with her partner (Shay) and son after getting her PhD in math from the University of Minnesota. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University where she does research in number theory and string theory. Kim has helped organize the the Math Project at Minnesota and Sonia Kovalevsky Day at KSU. She loves hiking, climbing, and weight-lifting in her free time.
Cory
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