Cathy Kessel is a U.S. researcher in mathematics education[1] and consultant, past-president of Association for Women in Mathematics, winner of the Association for Women in Mathematics Louise Hay Award, and a blogger on Mathematics and Education.[2] She served as an editor for Illustrative Mathematics from the end of 2015 through July 15, 2017.[3]
Kessel received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in mathematical logic, and taught for three years after earning her Ph.D. She taught for a total of 13 years as a graduate and postgraduate until the 1990s when she made the switch to research in education.[4] She began auditing courses and working on research projects at the School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley. This led to a career that included editing reports, books, articles, and curriculum and standards documents. She was the president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2007 to 2009 and worked as a mathematics education consultant through 2015 and again after she left Illustrative Mathematics in 2017.
Kessel has participated in multiple projects pertaining to mathematics education, including the following.[5]
In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[15]
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