Kathryn Leonard is a mathematician and computer scientist at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. She is currently both professor and Department Chair in the Department of Computer Science. In 2012, she received a Henry L. Alder Award for teaching from the Mathematical Associate of America, and in 2015, she received the AWM Service Award. Kathryn is the current president of the AWM and is also the director of the NSF-funded Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics. Kathryn studies geometric models for computer graphics, computer vision, and data analysis, with an emphasis on explainability.

Dahlia Fischis an Editor of Mathematics at Springer in New York, where she coordinates a number of book series including the Association for Women in Mathematics series, Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Mathematics in Mind, and SpringerBriefs in Mathematics.

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