Yan is an assistant professor in mathematics specializing in combinatorics at San Jose State University, after receiving his PhD from MIT. He wants to help people everywhere become more human and awesome. He has mentored students at the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program (where he represented the U.S. at the International Mathematics Olympiad with a silver medal), RSI, and MIT-PRIMES. He received the Undergraduate Math Association’s Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award for his postdoctoral position at UC Berkeley.

Karen is a high school math teacher and Knowles Teaching Fellow based in Los Angeles. She is always curious about how we learn, how we learn math, and all the myriad ways that we can create community together. After completing her B.A.s in Math and Symbolic Systems and M.A. in Education from Stanford, she has set out on a quest to change the stories we tell about math to our young people. When not in the classroom, she’s playing ultimate frisbee, letting loose at Dance Church or reading a good book. Also an avid musical theater fan and eclectic music lover, talk to her about your favorite sounds and tunes anytime!

London Lowmanstone IV is a PhD Candidate at the University of Minnesota studying how AI behaves in scenarios where it's asked to make predictions about text where not everyone agrees about what the right answer is. He has a B.A. in computer science and philosophy and is very interested in AI safety and ensuring that artificial intelligence is used to reduce inequity, rather than exacerbate it.

Michael is a returning instructor and alum of SPARC, now working as a math ambassador & puzzle writer. Along his path there, he participated in high school math contests, studied math & theater at MIT, and worked as trader. He likes mentoring students, rock climbing, and getting a little lost -- whether in a good video game, a hard problem, or life in general.

Maria is a PhD student at Oxford studying political science, specializing in digital authoritarianism, the rise of the radical right in Europe and European tech policy. More broadly, she’s interested in axiology, epistemology and 20th century intellectual history. She also enjoys playing the piano, painting and travelling.

Andrew is a pianist, writer, and graduate student in biostatistics at Harvard. He previously studied math at Yale and runs an independent college consulting practice. He likes running, climbing, lifting weights, translating sounds into sentences, and translating sentences into sounds. The artists he admires most are Garielle Lutz, Jeremy Denk, and Holden Mui.

Damon is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, author of Pokemon Rational Fiction, and teacher at various camps and workshops. He’s a strong believer in the power of rationality to improve therapeutic practices, as well as stories as a catalyst for growth, and is working to combine all three in as many ways as possible.

Cat is doing economics in grad school and interested in both user and systems design. Cat previously was a product manager at Shopify. Temporary hobbies: climbing, yarn, photography, classical Chinese

David is currently doing research in scalable collaborative cultures – how we can design better ecosystems for humanity to solve some of the largest social-technical problems facing us today. In the past, he has spent 5 years in tech startups as a director of growth at one, and an anthropologist at another. He is currently interested in information theory, complexity theory, and philosophy.

Caleb graduated from Harvard with a degree in Comparative Literature and Linguistics, and has helped organize various conferences, camps, and workshops in different countries for the past few years. He is interested in comparative philosophy, ecological history, and cognitive linguistics. Caleb can speak English, French, and Chinese, grows most of the vegetables he eats, and enjoys Chinese tea.