Service
I serve as an elected member of Brooklyn College's Faculty Council, a position I've held from 2011 to 2021 and again from 2024 - 2027.
Since 2023, I am also an elected representative of the University Faculty Senate, representing Brooklyn College to CUNY.
I serve as a faculty advisor for the Brooklyn College Math Club and the Graduate Center's AWM Student Chapter.
I serve as a research mentor for the RAMMP REU, the NYC Discrete Math REU, the Queens Discrete Math REU, and the New York Combinatorics REU.
I'm a founding member of the New York Combinatorics Group along with Jonathan Cutler and Christopher Hanusa. We began the New York Combinatorics seminar in January 2011.
A team of us across CUNY applied for and obtained a National Science Foundation grant (NSF DMS #1820731) titled Recruitment and Mentoring in Mathematics Project, RAMMP in short. I am a co-PI of this grant along with Gautam Chinta (PI) and co-PI Robert Donley, William P. Hooper, and Cesar Valverde.
Since January 2020, I have been serving as one of the ten North America Ambassadors to the International Mathematical Union’s Committee for Women.
I am a co-organizer of the Research Network for Women in Graph Theory and Application. We received funding to support 40 women for one week at the Institute for Mathematics in Minneapolis. Our August 2019 Workshop for Women in Graph Theory and Applications was quite a success with multiple papers originating from this week.
Since 2023 I have been serving on the AWM scientific advisory committee,
On May 25, 2016, I organized a round table discussion on “The conflict between surveillance and the free expression of ideas” for Brooklyn College Faculty Day. As a follow-up on Feb 22, 2017, Benjamin Carp from History and I organized a Workshop on Surveillance and the First Amendment.
In the academic year 2014-2015 I was one of five faculty at Brooklyn College who participated in the CUNY OER program. It was a pilot program back then and has been flourishing ever since. I wrote an open-source Calculus I book. Calculus textbooks are expensive and my goal in writing a free book is to help students read and learn Calculus on their own. At present students find it hard to read math textbooks because they are written for instructors. This book connects Calculus to art, and it is about as close to "light reading" as a calculus textbook can get.
S. R. Kingan (2015) Calculus for Everyone, Open Education Resources, 2015.
This book has been downloaded over 2000 times and that is not counting my students. Who would've thought it would be so popular! I suppose there is always room for another calculus book.
In addition to the above, I have served and currently serve on numerous college committees.