Ileana Vasu
Professor of Mathematics | STEM Education and Equity Consulting
Northampton, MA
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I was born in Bucharest, Romania, and came to the United States as a political refugee and immigrant when I was still in high-school. I am a naturalized U.S. citizen. I identify as a White, cis-gender woman. Although in school I always excelled in mathematics and STEM, as a young immigrant to the U.S., I spent many years feeling isolated and yearning to be valued or even accepted by my new community. These experiences have deeply impacted who I am and what I strive to change in the bigger educational community. In particular, I am aware of the need to diversify and change the culture of many of our STEM programs. This culture has left many groups on the outside. There are great inequities in our traditional educational practices and much of my work in the last decade, both in the classroom as a teacher, and within the STEM community have been devoted to addressing these failures.
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