Amanda Beecher

Dr. Amanda Beecher is a mathematical modeling educator dedicated to helping students and educators engage with meaningful, real-world problems. She has held leadership roles at local, regional, and international levels, including serving as ICM Director and contributing to the Mathematical Association of America for the NJ Section and the Environmental Mathematics SIGMAA. Her work spans mathematics, data science, network science, sustainability, and education, with particular interests in combinatorics, graph theory, applied math, and modeling. Before joining COMAP, she spent 15 years at Ramapo College of New Jersey as a Professor of Mathematics, founding the Data Science undergraduate program and directing the Master’s in Applied Mathematics program. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University at Albany, SUNY.