Lithy Dorman was the first person that motivated her to see herself as a mathematician, she says. "I think you can have so much impact, even more so sometimes when you don't necessarily identify with that person along with their race and their ethnicity" She grew up in the deep south; Spelman is an all women's college.
Talithia Williams thinks you should rigorously track your body's data. She and Steve Levitt trade birth stories and bemoan the state of STEM education.