Professor Edray Goins was just elected president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), one of the country’s largest professional societies.
The first Black president in the MAA’s 110-year history, Goins has been an active member of the society’s Southern California-Nevada regional section, and campaigned on a platform of helping bridge the gap between the two often-siloed groups of math researchers and math educators. With the federal government terminating an increasing number of math grants, Goins also vowed to connect with private foundations to support math majors in need of financial support.
“I want to give people hope about what the future of the mathematics community can be,” Goins says. “Math isn’t just about having the majors or having the funding to do grants. It’s part of this larger community that has to tell people math is a cool, beautiful thing.”