The 2023 Design Team For The Biggest Winner Math Challenge
As Ed Inquiry designs the Massachusetts 2023 Summer Biggest Winner Math Challenge we are assembling a very talented team of educators, instructional designers, graphic artists, programmers, and experienced project leaders.
All coming together with their broad range of cultural perspectives, expertise and lived experiences to ensure that a transformative summer session is created for advanced and motivated math students across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and beyond.
All participants (students, teen interns, national cohort of instructors) of the 2023 Biggest Winner Match Challenge will be working, learning and collaborating in a virtual environment as a part of an innovative new pilot program to inspire middle school students that love math while exposing high school students to the world of work and teaching.
Biggest Winner Math Challenge and The Ed Inquiry Teen Leader Program are growing and making an impact on the lives of advanced public school students and teens across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and beyond.
The 2023 Biggest Winner Math Challenge Design Team is forming. If you want to be a contributor to this great project check out our careers page for open jobs descriptions as they go live.
The Team
Tyrone Mowat, MBA (Ed Inquiry)
Principal Investigator/Managing Director
- 30 years in industry as an innovator in various markets
- Entrepreneur/Strategic Consultant to C Suite
- Social Entrepreneur (creating earn while you learn opportunities for students globally)
- 15 years in public education with proven results in school turnaround
- Former Chair:
- Gifted/Talented Advisory Education Council,
- Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
- Native New York City – Massachusetts Transplant – Global Traveler
- Believes: Lasting positive change, that can impact children across the country, CAN occur when highly talented, like minded, mission driven, passionate people find a vision they can share and align with.
Ruth Fuentes
EDI Project Manager
- Teaching, training and designing new systems, processes and techniques for outreach
- Creatively applying the new tools of outreach to create collaborative communities of educators
- Pioneering the world of virtual work
- Believes that students must have alternative pathways to reach their potential whether in business, education, music or art
Sashoy Bailey
EDI Curriculum Specialist
- Life-long interest in STEM
- High School Science Teacher
- Instructional Coach
- One of the few engineering majors of color in her college
- Believes that advanced students deserve a place where they can get the challenges they need to succeed
Deanna Rogers
Program Advisor
- 40 years leading schools throughout the country
- Experience with school logistics, planning and programming
- Biggest Winner Math Challenge New Orleans Founding Member
- Believes we should meet children where they are and help them to grow to what they can be
Dr. Molander Etienne, Ed. D.
Curriculum Advisor /Program Designer
- 25 plus years in education
- proven results closing the achievement gap
- Consistently delivers extraordinary student outcomes as a Massachusetts instructional leader
- Deep experience in the design of culturally affirming literacy curricula
- Deep experience successfully inspiring and leading teachers of children of color
- Believes that ALL children MUST be globally competitive readers and writers no matter what neighborhood they come from
Christopher Smith
Math Cluster Leader
- 7 years in education
- Reaching students no matter their economic situation
- Actively exploring new methods and tools to engage students
- Biggest Winner Massachusetts Founding Member
- Believes that students learn best when they are engaged, trust the adults around and operate within a supportive class community
Khaia Smith
Math Cluster Leader
- Teaching is what I do and what I love to do
- Experience in elementary and middle schools
- Experience inspiring the gifted and advanced to accelerated learning
- Believes that our job as teachers is to engage, inspire, enthrall and leave every student with a lasting favorable memory of their education
Jim Faris
Creative Artist in Residence (2023)
- Web guru – Designer, Creator, Visionary
- Visual spaces artist
- 20 plus years of experience in art expression – for business and pleasure
- Believes it’s all about unleashing creativity – in music, visual arts and story-telling.
Zehb Amoree
BWMC Program Coordinator – Student Experience
- 10 Years in Education, Youth Enrichment, and Undergraduate Program Facilitation
- 15 Years in the Performing and Fine Arts.
- Understands that the ENTIRE edification of students is vital to their long-lasting success
- Believes: “Creativity takes Courage”- Henri Matisse.
Kris Burrell
EDI Program Manager – “Head of the Class”
- Born and Raised in Las Vegas, Nevada
- 15 Years in Education, Enrichment and Teenage Behavioral Health
- Currently writing at Youth Adult book series20 Years in the Performing and Fine Arts
- Performs on The Disney Cruise Line.“Every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown
Isha Hassan
Head of the Class Teen Council – President
- I was a student at BWMC in its pilot year
- This will my 3rd year working as a teen leader
- I am currently in 10th grade
- I have a younger brother and younger sister (who’s a student in the program)
- I am a HUGE Marvel fan
- I am excited for this year of the program!
- Believes: Don’t be discouraged by failure. The goal isn’t perfection but instead to learn and grow, which happens in the moments we say “I need help”
Eno Anoko
Head of the Class Teen Council – Vice President
- Physics is my favorite subject.
- I am the oldest of four.
- I love pineapple on pizza.
- My favorite book that I’ve read for school is Things Fall Apart.
- My favorite genre of music is R&B.
- This will my 3rd year working as a Teen Leader
- Believes: Compassion, courage, and creativity are crucial to creating a fun and welcoming community-creative, outside-of-the-box thinking should always be shared and welcomed with open arms, no matter how abstract or unique.
Jeremiah Bernardo
Head of the Class Teen Council
- My name is the combination of my parents names
- Even though I am in High School I take college classes
- I will get my Associate’s degree when I graduate with my High School Diploma
- I play video games with my family – 2 sisters and a younger brother
- This will my 3rd year working as a Teen Leader
- Believes: You should learn to love learning cause you will be learning all your life.
Rosie Lopez
EDI Project Coordinator
- Mission-driven
- 4+ Years of experience in program design and management
- 3 Years of experience working in education
- Born and raised in California
- Believes that intensive collaboration is key to creating environments that empower students to succeed.
Amy Schneider
EDI Instructional Data Analyst/Summer Instructor
- Loves math in all its aspects
- Studies the abstract, theoretical and applied areas of math
- Recently graduated from studies in math
- Believes students must have an appreciation of the pervasiveness of math in their lives, in the world and in the universe.
Jacqui Vincent
EDI Curriculum Advisor/Summer Instructor
- 10 years in education
- Focused on STEM subjects
- Enjoy sharing my passion for math with students
- 2 Masters degrees later and I am learning so much more everyday from the students I teach
- Believes we have to make STEM engaging and accessible, especially for aspiring young girls.
Clayton Sanchez
Developer/Automation Specialist
- EY alumnus
- 5 years in Tax, 3 years in Cybersecurity
- Expert in augmenting business workflows through automation and custom business tools
- I genuinely love what I do, but if I didn’t do this then I think I’d be a fiction novelist. Who doesn’t enjoy a good story?
- World traveler and explorer of global cultures
- Believes that inspiring students and each other to find their niche and talents in life can only help make the world a better, more fulfilling place.
Franklin Chen
Ed Inquiry Teen Council Member
- Third year as teen leader for Biggest Winner Math Challenge
- Currently in 10th grade
- Favorite subject is math
- Favorite food is egg fried rice
- Favorite music genre is rap
Adanna Eze
Ed Inquiry Teen Council Member
- Former high school president
- Former captain of school’s soccer team
- Favorite soccer athlete: Lionel Messi
- Modeled at school’s recent fashion show.
- Enjoys reality tv and public speaking
- Current Freshman at UMass Amherst
Heather Martin
Program Advisor
- 20 plus years of experience serving schools and students
- Focused on providing students with the supports needed for early literacy
- Understands that students need to be engaged and inspired to learn
- Deep experience in school leadership and enrichment programs within a high performance school
- Believes that a good team get things done when they are passionate and collaborate with like minded others to achieve their mission to serve children.
Katie Perkins (HR Knowledge)
Recruitment Partner in Residence (2022-23)
- Learned importance of balance early
- Learned discipline and work ethic as an athlete (Life Guard)
- Exploring the application of new tools and methods to the process of recruiting
- Believes: That matching the right candidates to great opportunities creates fulfilling career choices .
Bria Monét DuBose
Artist in Residence (2022-23)
- Illustrator / Artist / Creative
- Draw and create daily
- Believes that art inspires and can convey written chapters in one glance.
Micah Donahue (Carbon)
Marketing and Communications Expert in Residence (2023)
- Marketing and branding guru
- Master of the media mix
- Creator of favorable experiences
- 25 years building customer experiences
- Believes a favorable customer experience requires great creative design and targeted communications.
Instructors and Teen Leaders getting ready for The Biggest Winner Math Challenge for 2023.
Teen Leaders (grades 10 -12) interested in a career in teaching
