Documentary Film Screening & Discussion - Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience(2024)

Film screening followed by an audience discussion with Director George Csicsery & University of San Francisco Associate Professor Of Mathematics & Statistics, Dr. Emille Davie Lawrence, featured in the film.

Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience is part one of two films produced by Zala Films as part of the Journeys of Black Mathematicians project (https://www.jbmfilm.com). Forging Resilience traces the evolution of a culture of Black scholars, scientists and educators. The film follows the stories of prominent pioneers, showing how the challenges they faced and their triumphs are reflected in the experiences of today’s working Black mathematicians. Their mathematical descendants in turn are contemporary college students, and K-12 children across the U.S. who are learning that they belong in mathematics and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

Co-presented by San Francisco State University Mathematics Department & the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath).