She unpacks it piece by piece: bright, 3D-printed shapes that click together into perfect rectangles. As she moves the Fibonacci sequence puzzle around, her eyes brighten and her hands quicken. She is both teacher and magician.
Quinn is the executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum (SUMM). She’s also a past president of the Mathematical Association of America and a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Her passion for math is contagious.
To Quinn, “math is everywhere,” and she couldn’t be more excited to share her love for it. From music to art to nature itself, she sees math woven through it all.
“It’s not just balancing your check book, and it’s not just arithmetic or algebra,” she told GeekWire. “It’s creating beautiful buildings. It’s music theory.”
Quinn joined SUUM as the executive director in June 2024. She describes her role as the “job I have trained my whole life for.”
