Hermie Monterde

Hermie Monterde (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Manitoba. Her research involves applications of techniques from algebraic graph theory and spectral graph theory to problems in continuous-time quantum walks. She is passionate about SOGIESC rights and gender equity in STEM; and is involved in events organized by equity-seeking groups within the mathematics community. She has been invited to give talks as well as serve as a panelist on discussions about the current status of SOGIESC-diverse people in mathematics. Currently, she serves on the CMS Women in Mathematics Committee and sits as the president of the Graduate Mathematics Society (an association of math graduate students at the University of Manitoba). Hermie is also active in organizing seminars and minisymposia, including the Prairie Discrete Mathematics Workshop 2022, the 05C50 Online (an online international seminar on Graphs and Linear Algebra) and the upcoming Queer in Computational Applied Mathematics Conference (the first conference in applied mathematics that celebrates the work of SOGIESC-diverse people). Outside of mathematics, she is active in migrants' and labor rights grassroots movements in Manitoba.
As a transgender woman with native roots from a developing country with a long colonial history, Hermie has experienced the barriers created by capitalism, colonization and patriarchy, which continue to disenfranchise low income, disabled, racialized and SOGIESC-diverse people. Hermie believes that EDI is essential to building a strong academic community, and it is only by recognizing and tearing down these barriers that we can truly create an equitable, diverse and inclusive mathematics community.