Bard Alumna and Award-Winning High School Mathematics Teacher Profiled in the Bronx Times

Kate Belin BA ’04, MAT ’05, who recently won the 2021 Math for America (MƒA) Muller Award for Professional Influence in Education, has taught mathematics at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx for the past 17 years. Growing up near Niagara Falls, Belin always loved math. At Bard, She majored in math as an undergraduate and went on to receive her masters of arts in teaching. She was a professor at City College of New York and Bard College and the Bard Prison Initiative before finding her “second home” at Fannie Lou. “I knew as soon as I got there that I wasn’t leaving,” Belin said. “I really just wanted to be a great teacher. The school is really just incredible. I don’t think there’s another place like it. They (her students) keep me connected and inspired.”

Post Date: 12-21-2021