Board of Directors Member and Initiator

Dr. Linda Lesniak
Western Michigan university

Dr. Linda Lesniak was a tenured professor at Louisiana State University, Western Michigan

University and Drew University. She serves on the editorial boards of Utilitas Math and Journal

of Graph Theory, and for many years was the managing editor of the Journal of Graph Theory.

She was an organizer of WIGA (Women in Graph Theory and Applications) and WinCom

(Women in Combinatorics ). She was an original author of the text Graphs & Digraphs and has

co-authored over 100 research papers. She continues to speak around the world.

Board of Directors Member

Hermie Monterde, PhD Candidate
University of Manitoba

Born and raised in the Philippines, Hermie Monterde (she/her) a PhD student at the University of Manitoba. Her research involves applications of techniques from algebraic and spectral graph theory to problems in continuous-time quantum walks. She is passionate about SOGIESC rights and gender equity in STEM; and is involved in various equity-seeking groups within the mathematics community. She has been invited to give talks as well as serve as a panelist on discussions about the current status of women and SOGIESC-diverse people in mathematics. She is also active in migrant and labor rights grassroots movements in Manitoba.

Board of Directors Member

Dr. Gabriela Araujo

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Martha Gabriela Araujo Pardo is a mathematician, teacher, and Ph.D. in Mathematics, currently serving as the president of the Mexican Mathematical Society since 2022. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM in the year 2000 and completed a postdoctoral stay at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain, in 2002. Additionally, she realized a sabbatical stance at the Université Libre de Bruxeles in 2020. Currently, she is a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics (Juriquilla Unit) and holds a Level III position in the National System of Researchers of CONACYT.
Her area of expertise is discrete mathematics, specifically finite geometries and their relationship with graph theory. She has authored approximately 70 research articles, supervised theses at all levels, and participated in over 80 national and international conferences. She was awarded the "Sofía Kovalevskaya Support" by the Mexican Mathematical Society and the Sofía Kovalevskaya Foundation 2003. She has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since November 2013 and received the "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2013" recognition from UNAM in the same year.
She is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries since 2024.
She has been involved in promoting the activity and presence of women (and, in general, underrepresented groups) in various academic spaces within mathematics. She served as a board member of the SMM from 2012 to 2014 and coordinated the Equity and Gender Commission of the Mexican Mathematical Society from 2014 to 2018. She represented researchers from the Institute of Mathematics, Juriquilla Campus, in the Commission for Equality, Equity, and Respect for Diversity of the Institute of Mathematics at UNAM in 2019. From 2020 to 2022, she was a member of the Gender and Diversity Commission of the Mathematical Union of Latin America and the Caribbean (CGD-UMALCA). She has been Mexico's ambassador to the "Committee of Women of Mathematics" of the International Mathematical Union since August 2016.

Board of Directors Member and Initiator

Dr. Kieka Mynhardt

University of Victoria

TBD